Category: Newsletter

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 […]

If you like these newsletters, tell a friend to subscribe for free! Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022 This week, we’ve got news from the newsroom! We’ve won an investment from the Ford Foundation to help us keep serving you, and we are hiring a reporter! If you want to join our team, or know someone who […]

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 […]

Share our big news by forwarding this email! And if someone forwarded this email to you, subscribe here for free! Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022 It’s not polite to talk about money, but we can’t afford to be polite.  Because we are trying to reinvent local journalism by building a business model that works for communities […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]