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In an email, obtained by The Times-Dispatch, officials said the funds, which had been awarded by FEMA in 2024 and were scheduled to be disbursed on Friday, had been “terminated.”

America’s largest newspaper chain, Gannett, will stop publishing diversity data and has removed mentions of diversity from its corporate site

richmondmagazine.com/news/field-n... Richmond voters are taking part in 2 firsts right now.

To learn all about those #rva data centers, read my story!

Within this story about the mental health landscape of MLB: The CBA permits teams to introduce “physical and mental defects” in arbitration hearings. Some in the game believe that’s a barrier to players using team- and league-provided mental health resources. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/s...

People are sleeping on Knopfler’s recent solo stuff!

Now on our web site: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/07/s...

#RVA’s People’s Budget. I’m doing a story on this for Richmond Magazine//anyone voting on this want to talk? DM me.

the pollen has become a heavy yellow fog, and the allergy meds can’t overcome it

ID: PHC0047/-0052#Cook1183 Women Vote for the First Time Date: 11/1920 Artist: Cook Studio https://valentine.rediscoverysoftware.com/MADetailB.aspx?rID=PHC0047/-0052#Cook1183&db=biblio&dir=VALARCH

Seeing Robert Tracci’s name just gave me time travel whiplash

Ingesting new music as intended: back-to-back Butcher Brown, Destroyer, Perfume Genius and New Pornos

Has the local restaurant scene — part of an industry that is systemically scarred and relies on slim profit margins — rebounded and recovered? I sat down with tenured owners, first-time operators, a real estate broker, chefs, managers and more to discuss the challenges that linger. #rvadine

Important: you could be listening the the 50th anniversary edition of “Band Wagon” by Shigeru Suzuki (the George Harrison of Happy End) right now

~$335 for the Switch 2 and $60 for the game. Until tariffs. 🫣

Deltarune Ch 1-4 coming to Switch 2 at launch

Nintendo Switch 2 launches June 5, 2025

BRIDGE TRUCK BRIDGE TRUCK WE GOT A BRIDGE TRUCK

can I have a Switch 2 before this happens

Going through the governor’s amendments, and he wants to tie a bill establishing a right to contraception to supreme court decisions.

#cdfriday at Plan 9 again 😋 #rva

The good news for #rva in this situation is that there’s local control over the water supply.

Diversity Richmond’s campaign to get a license plate reading “Celebrate Diversity” didn’t get enough applications this year: richmondmagazine.com/news/news/di...

on this day

Months after the Japanese conglomerate defeated a Teamster drive at its Richmond brewery, a new filing shows what it spent on pricey "persuaders" to swing the vote in its favor. For @vinepair.com, I laid out why the firm would spend six figures to squash a union, even as it was hemorrhaging value.

WILYERRRRRR

I guess I’m not the only one who can’t get MLB.tv to work on OPENING DAY

Virtual Game Card announced from Nintendo -Purchase a digital game and load it as a "digital game card" -able to load a "digital game card" on a 2nd system. Can load up to 2 systems -can lend out games to Switch Family Group members via local wireless -added via system update in April

Thinking about the editor I worked with who pronounced his name as “Ken Kook-a-nelly”

INBOX: Gov. Glenn Youngkin wants to appoint Ken Cuccinelli to UVA's Board of Visitors.

INBOX: Bert Ellis has been removed from the UVA Board of Visitors.

Can’t help notice the timing: Youngkin again vetoed the recreational marijuana framework, and days later the Cannabis Control Authority acting head says he’s leaving.

Scoop: The Washington Post recently—and quietly—removed its "Democracy Dies in Darkness" slogan from the opening sequence of its app, a notable change given Jeff Bezos once insisted it always appear alongside the logo. It also no longer appears atop its mobile site. www.status.news/p/washington...