Charlotte Rene Woods joined Charlottesville Tomorrow as a reporter in March 2019. She has a B.A. in Journalism + Design from The New School in New York City, and she earned her M.S. in Multimedia Journalism from Virginia Commonwealth University.
As activists call for police department defunding, Charlottesville city leaders say they don’t have enough information about the Charlottesville Police Department’s structure or budget to even begin having that conversation here.
“My problem as a councilor...
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This week, we talk to Billy Jean Louis about school resource officers and his article on mental health in the Black community. Plus, an update on Charlottesville’s Confederate monuments with Charlotte Rene Woods and a new audio drama...
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Editor’s note: The original version of this story failed to mention that Charlottesville Tomorrow requested interviews with each city councilor on the city’s plans for its Confederate monuments and only councilors Lloyd Snook and Sena Magill responded. Snook gave an interview...
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Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Speciale has served in the U.S. Army – both active duty and in the reserves – since 1987. In continued service, he is taking aim at incumbent democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Warner’s seat...
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Rising fourth-year student Rohan Taneja is a computer science major with many of his courses being lectures or large sizes — two types...
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This week, WTJU’s Soundboard focuses on the local demonstrations in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. First, we catch up with Charlottesville Tomorrow about what they saw on the ground at the Charlottesville protests. We also talk to...
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Last summer, the Charlottesville City Council voted to reject a rezoning of land in the Fry’s Spring area to develop eight rows of townhomes.
In the year since, Southern Development has made alterations to the project...
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Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, absentee ballots are the encouraged voting method this year. A longtime Democrat, Caren Converse recently opened hers to discover her candidates to choose from were the three Republicans facing off against each other...
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After 20 years of military service, appointments to various policy councils and teaching economics at American University, Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Daniel Gade now is running for the U.S. Senate.
In seeking to unseat Sen....
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Alissa Baldwin was always drawn to the U.S. Constitution. Originally, she pursued a career as a paralegal before serendipitously landing in public education as an eighth grade civics teacher in Lunenburg County. Along with teaching how the...
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Katrina Turner acknowledged that there’s a pandemic, but said that Black and brown people have been in a pandemic for hundreds of years. When people witness a murder on TV, sometimes they have to risk something to...
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