Share local news! If someone forwarded you this email, here’s where you can subscribe — for free! Friday, Sept. 30, 2022 It hasn’t made headlines lately, but Charlottesville’s massive re-zoning effort continues moving forward. In fact, we’re about a third of the way there. We’re about a third of the way through Charlottesville’s massive rezoning […]
Author Archives: Jessie Higgins
I'm Charlottesville Tomorrow's managing editor and health and safety reporter. If there’s something you think we should be investigating, please email me at jhiggins@cvilletomorrow.org! And you can follow all the work we do by subscribing to our free newsletter! Hablo español, y quiero mantener a la comunidad hispanohablante informada. Si tienes preguntas o información que debo saber, por favor, envíame un correo electrónico a jhiggins@cvilletomorrow.org.
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Charlottesville teachers among tens of thousands weighing in on Youngkin’s transgender student policies
If you like this newsletter, why not forward it to a friend? Here’s where they can subscribe for free! Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022 Public comment on Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposed policies for transgender students opened yesterday. The policies forbid teachers from referring to students by their preferred pronouns without parental consent and block students from […]
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The public has 30 days to comment on Youngkin’s new transgender student policies and Charlottesville teachers and parents are weighing in
“The instability is what’s really so difficult to navigate,” said a Charlottesville mother of a non-binary child. “How much danger are we going to be in? How much are our lives about to change?”
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Early voting starts today!
This email includes a story from Louisa County. If you know someone from that county who might be interested, please forward this email and share this link to subscribe for free! Friday, Sept. 23, 2022 Voters, are you excited? Early voting starts today! Check out the 2022 Voter Guide for more information! Today we bring […]
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Making sure local children have access to period products
Did someone forward you this newsletter? Subscribe here, for free! Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022 Around half the people reading this newsletter will intimately understand the total panic of being on your period — and not having a pad. What you may not know is that many children in this country have this experience while they’re […]
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Traffic data show our roads are getting more dangerous
If you like these newsletters, this is a great time to tell a friend to subscribe! Friday, Sept. 16, 2022 Last year, traffic fatalities in Virginia skyrocketed. After slowly climbing from the low 700s in 2015 to 791 in 2020, fatal crashes jumped to 903 in 2021, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation. And […]
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On view next week: Turn of the century portraits that tell a different story of Jim Crow Charlottesville
If you like these newsletters, tell a friend to subscribe for free! Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022 There’s a photography exhibition opening in Charlottesville next week that will display the professionally taken portraits of nearly 200 local African Americans taken in the early 20th Century. These pictures were made when Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation […]
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Want to try out an e-bike? Josh Carp will lend you his
If you like these newsletters, this is a great time forward it and tell a friend to subscribe! Friday, Sept. 9, 2022 If you feel like you’re seeing more e-bikes zooming around Charlottesville lately, you’re not wrong. While they’re not going to be replacing cars anytime soon, the popularity of e-bikes has been steadily growing […]
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New COVID-19 boosters will arrive this week
If you like these newsletters, tell a friend to subscribe! Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022 Get ready! Omicron booster shots should be available in the Charlottesville area “sometime this week,” health officials say. The newly approved Pfizer Bivalent Boosters, designed to vaccinate against the two most prevalent COVID-19 variants currently circulating in the United States, has […]
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With 150 monkeypox vaccines, the local health district is racing to stop the disease from spreading
If you like these newsletters, this is a great time to tell a friend to subscribe! Sept. 2, 2022 Monkeypox is here. As of Thursday, there were six confirmed cases of the disease in the Blue Ridge Health District. That’s still a small amount compared to elsewhere in the state, particularly areas near Washington D.C. […]
