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3 weeks ago | 
richmonder.org | Michael Phillips |Sarah Vogelsong |Graham Moomaw |Andy Thompson
Richmond officials and members of City Council are acknowledging the city needs to address its aging John Marshall courthouse, but tight funding may mean a wholesale replacement isn’t in the cards at this time. “We are not disputing the fact that we know we need to build a new courthouse,” Interim Chief Administrative Officer Sabrina Joy-Hogg told Council’s Public Safety Committee last week.
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4 weeks ago | 
richmonder.org | Graham Moomaw |Andy Thompson |Sarah Vogelsong
Richmond City Council will consider this spring whether to impose a 5 cent tax on plastic bags used by grocery stores, pharmacies and convenience stores across the city. If approved, the measure could go into effect as soon as January 2026. It would make Richmond the 11th local government in Virginia and the first in the region to impose a bag tax since the General Assembly gave cities and counties the option to do so in 2020. Richmond has been eyeing the idea since then.
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1 month ago | 
richmonder.org | Michael Phillips |Andy Thompson |Graham Moomaw |Jerry Lindquist
Weather: Sunny, high of 58. On this date in 1975, a Hopewell grand jury convenes in the probe of a theft ring that was accused of stealing thousands of pounds of lobster tails from a food warehouse, then reselling them for $2 a pound. Today's newsletter sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University is a powerhouse of innovation and creative problem solving. We attack challenges as opportunities. VCU is truly unlike any university you’ve ever seen.
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1 month ago | 
richmonder.org | Andy Thompson |Graham Moomaw |Sarah Vogelsong |Ian Stewart
The revised state budget Gov. Glenn Youngkin rolled out Monday was a mixed bag for gambling policy in the Richmond area. Both the city of Richmond and Henrico County stand to gain more tax revenue from Rosie’s gambling facilities in the future after Youngkin approved a state policy allowing host localities to keep a bigger share of Rosie’s revenue.
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1 month ago | 
richmonder.org | Sarah Vogelsong |Andy Thompson |Graham Moomaw
With three new members and a new mayor still settling in, the Richmond City Council has had a relatively light workload in the first few months of 2025. Monday’s meeting was no exception. The council had no business on its regular agenda, leaving only routine, mostly uncontroversial items packaged together on the consent agenda. The council approves the consent agenda with a single vote, and rarely goes into detailed discussion on any particular item.
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1 month ago | 
richmonder.org | Graham Moomaw |Andy Thompson |Sarah Vogelsong
A Richmond judge ruled City Council had the right to withdraw a trash contract it had voted to award a company two months earlier after officials misinterpreted bid numbers, even as he sharply criticized what occurred.
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1 month ago | 
richmonder.org | Graham Moomaw |Sarah Vogelsong |Victoria Ifatusin |Andy Thompson
Ken Burns has made a career telling America’s foundational stories from less-than-obvious points of view, finding fresh angles on the legendary moments and participants and unearthing forgotten ones. The Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated documentarian famous for sweeping histories of the Civil War, Baseball, the National Parks and more, was in town Sunday to promote his newest multi-part TV event – The American Revolution.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
richmonder.org | Michael Phillips |Andy Thompson |Ashley Jefferson |Brandon Haffner
Weather: High of 52, and getting colderOn this date in 1973, the torch at the Virginia War Memorial is extinguished for the first time since 1956 as an energy-saving measure, as the speed limit on Virginia's highways is reduced to 55 in response to skyrocketing oil prices.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
richmonder.org | Andy Thompson |Graham Moomaw |Michael Phillips |Jerry Lindquist
Always on the lookout for a compelling tale to tell, we found one recently in the most unlikely place … little, old Ashland, Va., at little, old Randolph-Macon College … tucked away in the athletics office, where a living, breathing anomaly has called R-MC home for more than two decades. The name is Pedro Arruza … which in itself is unusual. I mean, how many Pedros do you know who coach American football, much less do it so well, so successfully, for so long ...
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
richmonder.org | Graham Moomaw |Michael Phillips |Sarah Vogelsong |Andy Thompson
Not all that long ago, 10-year-old Lucy Spangler found herself lost in the woods for the first time. She held a compass and a map, but, completely turned around, she couldn’t place herself on it. Most of the leaves had fallen from the trees. There was no crunch of footfalls. No human in sight. “It was quite hard,” she said, of that moment of realization and the moments that followed. But she didn’t panic.
