The editorial board of the Times Dispatch weighs in today with its thoughts on the future of the West Hospital:
The [preservationist] stance suggests mere aesthetics should hold back medical progress. Preservationists — and advocates of the city’s ostensibly “bottom-up” planning process who also have denounced VCU’s plans — doubtless will protest such a characterization. Nevertheless, [...]
Today I finally got around to reading Monday’s Mayor’s Visions Newsletter. And I found something about which the Mayor, his staff, and I agree: the news outlets in this town leave something to be desired.
Something like: decent journalism that reports and checks facts and asks tough questions.
The Mayors Visions newsletter was penned by [...]
Inflammatory! Outrageous!
Who asked all these people what they thought should happen in Richmond? And why are they telling us what to do?
That’s the sentiment expressed (with my, ahem, rewording) about the master plan by planning commission members. The TD reports that several members were upset by Richmond residents’ request that the West Hospital at [...]
Times Dispatch headline: “Richmond residents criticize master plan“
The “residents” quoted are:
“an attorney representing NewMarket Corp., which owns nearly 70 acres along the James River downtown, including the Ethyl Corp.”
“executive director of [developer-backed] Venture Richmond”
“VCU’s associate vice president for facilities management.”
Please tell me: do I even need to comment on this?
So the Braves are leaving. Does that solve our civic dilemma about what to do with the Diamond? Unfortunately, no.
According to the TD, there will be A & AA teams beating down our door to move here.
Which means: expect to here more from Pantele, Wilder, and the blogosphere about when, where, how, and why we [...]
Thanks to those of you who let me know you read and appreciate what I write. Life has become busyand the joy of blogging has diminished for me recently.
I remain passionate, however, about the possibilities of a better future for Richmond. And so I will continue blogging for now.
Two things I’d love to [...]
It’s fitting on this first-in-a-while rainy day to write about the lack of transparency in our city government. Despite recent promising events, like the charette, Richmond’s politicos are rapidly returning to the status quo of obfuscation, backroom deals, and just plain old incompetency.
Story number one
Mayor Wilder cancels a town hall meeting to discuss [...]
Blogging has seemed a chore this week, so I haven’t done it.
Nevertheless, a steady stream of internet traffic has continued to come my way (about 100-150 hits a day). For the past month or so, the second most popular search term leading people to my blog is “hippies” (the first is the blog title.)
Which leads [...]
I haven’t written much on my blog recently. That’s partly because I’ve been busy, and partly because Richmond is not inspiring me at the moment. It feels like every news item I come across is tired, recycling the same old stories with the same old commentaries- just change a few details from [...]
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