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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 |Ian Stewart |Graham Moomaw
Bill Leighty — who served as chief of staff to former Virginia governors Mark Warner and Tim Kaine — says he was fired from his role at VCU’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs after refusing to ask Richmond Mayor Danny Avula a question the school wanted him to ask on behalf of former Gov. Doug Wilder.
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1 month ago | 
richmonder.org | Michael Phillips |Ian Stewart |Graham Moomaw |Sarah Vogelsong
Giddyup, Richmond. The police department has the BolaWrap 150. The tool, a sort of high-tech lasso that restrains people by shooting out thin Kevlar cords that wrap around their body, is the latest craze in policing as departments look for new ways to get “non-compliant” individuals to fall in line without escalating situations further. Last year, the Fairfax County Police Department acquired 450 BolaWraps, and now the Richmond Police Department has followed suit by buying 50 of its own.
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1 month ago | 
richmonder.org | Sarah Vogelsong |Ian Stewart |Michael Phillips |Graham Moomaw
Richmond Mayor Danny Avula’s administration announced Wednesday that the city is hiring a longtime public health official to a high-ranking City Hall job as deputy chief administrative officer for human services. Amy Popovich — who previously served as nurse manager for the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts —will start work for the city on April 28 as a replacement for departing DCAO for Human Services Traci DeShazor.
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1 month ago | 
richmonder.org | Ian Stewart |Michael Phillips |Graham Moomaw |Sarah Vogelsong
4 min A long-awaited proposal for a city rental inspection program could be brought before City Council later this spring, Richmond Planning Director Kevin Vonck said Tuesday.
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1 month ago | 
richmonder.org | Sarah Vogelsong |Graham Moomaw |Victoria Ifatusin |Ian Stewart
One thing that irks Ian C. Hess about cycling around Richmond is the infrastructure. “[It] often feels like you're going to die,” he said. “The notion of what biking infrastructure is, is painting a picture of a bike on the ground. And as nice as that is, that means nothing to motorists and I drive a car.
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1 month ago | 
richmonder.org | Graham Moomaw |Jerry Lindquist |Sarah Vogelsong |Ian Stewart
In response to an audit that criticized City Hall for having a sloppy process for giving public funds to charitable organizations, city officials say they’re going to stop calling the payments grants and instead treat them as donations with fewer strings attached.
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1 month ago | 
richmonder.org | Sarah Vogelsong |Jerry Lindquist |Ian Stewart |Graham Moomaw
After the failure of a standalone bill on the topic, Richmond now stands to gain millions of dollars more per year under a change in the pending state budget that tweaks the allocation of tax dollars from Rosie’s gambling facilities. The new budget approved by the General Assembly eliminates a rule requiring Richmond to split its Rosie’s tax money with New Kent County, the rural but fast-growing county between Richmond and Williamsburg.
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1 month ago | 
richmonder.org | Graham Moomaw |Ian Stewart |Victoria Ifatusin |Sarah Vogelsong
Once upon a time, pharmacies were neighborhood institutions, places where prescriptions could be filled and medical advice dispensed by familiar faces. “There's no other health professional that a patient has as much access to than pharmacists,” said Shantelle Brown, founder and lead pharmacist at HOPE Pharmacy in Church Hill. But that situation is increasingly a relic of the past. Between 2011 and 2021, almost a third of U.S. pharmacies closed.
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1 month ago | 
richmonder.org | Sarah Vogelsong |Ian Stewart |Ashley Jefferson |Jerry Lindquist
It has come to our attention the real reason, absolutely no doubt about it, why the Atlee High School boys basketball team is a game away from a state championship, which would be its first since the school opened in 1991. Milk shakes. That’s it, pure and simple … according to Dale Boice, who happens to be coach Rally Axselle’s mother-in-law, and Angela, his wife and youngest daughter of Dale and the late Bill Boice.
