Good Morning, RVA!

Who among us is brave enough to introduce an ordinance banning gas-powered leaf blowers??

Just think of all the different things we could put in the cake format!

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I'm living vicariously though students on summer break right now.

I spent yesterday afternoon hiding from the storm in my basement. Related: The Virginia Mercury is hiring a climate reporter.

Bikepeople! Take your vast knowledge of where our streets are unsafe and cram it into this Richmond Connects survey!

I'm pretty excited about the Richmond Connects process—which kicks off in earnest today.

Racism is still a public health crisis.

Racism is a public health crisis.

The James River is our very best thing, and folks shouldn't be able to buy and hoard that for themselves.

I'm pretty excited about the bike/ped improvements that should come out of the Diamond District and VCU's Athletic Village.

Take the bike lane survey! Tell them sharrows are bad!

Today I've got two stories about native plants—it's Richmond's only zoning, budget, and plant-obsessed email newsletter!

If we wanted to, there are many, many cheap and easy ways to make our streets safer.

Take a minute this morning to financially support our local journalists however you can by subscribing, donating, joining, patreoning, or participating in whatever other business models are out there!

Do you know about rose rosette disease? Do you see it everywhere and constantly point it out to your eye-rolly family?

Ranked-choice voting for City Council sounds great, let's make it happen!

I was wondering what would suck up all of my attention this summer, and it sure looks like it'll be casino round two.

This state budget comparison PDF from The Commonwealth Institute is incredible!

We know our streets are dangerous and deadly, but what are we going to do about it?

Dang, you can put all kinds of stuff in a budget.

Have a great, excellent, and hopefully long weekend!

Do you want to head up the City's new Office of Sustainability?

The future seems incredibly clear but incredibly dark.

It's wild how long things can stick around on City Council's agenda.

Welcome to the 3rd District, a bunch of ex-2nd Districters!

Good luck to everyone competing in the heat! Stay cool!

It must be nice and cool for folks who live places where they don't feel deep anxiety over what their schoolboard may do next.

Make a plan to get your 5–11yos boosted this weekend.

Go and get your eight free COVID-19 tests from covid.gov/tests!

The river is full of wonderful things.

Be cool. Don't be all, like, uncool.

I don't love how so many people's rights hinge on someone with chaotic neutral alignment.

Congratulations to RPS Teacher of the Year, Kiara Thompson!

Budget season! We hardly knew ye!

It's not nearly as interesting to me, but I guess the state's budget season is still ongoing.

No justice anywhere, even in the port-a-potty, until we put it there!

Can you believe we're at the end of budget season already??

Reply with your best Star Wars-themed City Council meme.

I don't know that I've ever seen a more thoughtful, effective, and unified public comment period than at last night's School Board meeting.

Honestly, a city that's safer for horses is probably one that's safer for pedestrians and people on bikes, too.

This weekend, I wash the pollen out of my screen porch!

I don't know where we go from here.

You need to watch the video from this past Monday's School Board meeting.

I could live with a more boring School Board.

"RP" stands for "Research Park," just so you know.

My solution to urban litter: More trash cans and empty them more frequently.

The NYT has a not-so-secret love affair with Richmond.

Block out some time to weigh in on the draft of the City's climate action plan!

I'm probably just going to keep wearing a mask on the bus...forever?

I never know what feedback to give on huge lists of transportation projects other than "don't do any of the highway widenings."