Charlottesville Podcasting Network: Recent Episodes
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For the next set of stories to be written for Charlottesville Community Engagement, the audio versions of the previous ones must be distributed. That’s the purpose of this particular edition which collects four stories from the past week with an extra one thrown in from the archive. The podcast version is also slightly different from the version that aired on WTJU at 6 a.m. on June 6, 2026.
Please take a listen if you’d like a different way to experience these stories for my quest for financing the stage show seems to have stalled.
In this edition:* Buckingham commuter bus operated by Jaunt tops initial prioritization list (read the story) * Charlottesville Area Transit preparing for electric buses (read the story) * The Albemarle Planning Commission endorses an effort to make it easier to build rooftop solar on entrance corridors (read the story) * Albemarle Planning Commission recommends denial of rezoning for 18-unit development (read the story on C-Ville Weekly) * One June 9, the Albemarle Planning Commission will learn about five work products to implement the Comprehensive plan. The Board of Supervisors had their review in May and this is an archive story.
Happy Birthday to the Associated Press which incorporated as a non-profit news cooperative on May 22, 1846 to share the costs of covering a war between the United States of America and Mexico. Charlottesville Community Engagement is an experiment in bringing people stories about an area that seems to be in constant change.
Once a week there’s an audio version and this is a chance to catch up on what’s been said:
- Charlottesville’s budget for fiscal year 2026 is on track for surplus (read the story)
- City Manager Sam Sanders given an update on development of a plan to make 2000 Holiday Drive a functioning support center for homeless (read the story)
- Work to build a sidewalk to support additional development in the Fry’s Spring neighborhood is on pause due to higher than expected right of ways costs (read the story)
- Bike Month continues and one Charlottesville City Councilor implores people to log rides with a government agency to beat Richmond (read the story)
- Charlottesville will commemorate the late Mel Walker on May 30 with the unveiling of Mel’s Walk (read the story)
- Supervisor Sally Duncan wants Albemarle to consider creating rental inspection program (read the story)
Where do you get your information about what’s happening in the greater Charlottesville area? Hopefully from multiple sources in order to expose yourself to multiple perspectives. But perhaps this is your first time looking at (or listening to) the opening words of a sonic edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement, a newsletter and podcast that seeks to get more people to understand what’s happening at local and regional government.
In this edition:* Salvation Army launches fundraising campaign for Center for Hope (read the story) * Many details remain to be worked out for how three groups will work together at Charlottesville’s future low-barrier shelter (read the story) * Albemarle staff working on five projects to implement new Comprehensive Plan (read the story) * Albemarle Supervisors leave Comprehensive Plan amendment process as is (read the story) * Charlottesville to form committee of developers to encourage more Missing Middle housing (read the story) * Council holds first reading on how to use Community Development Block Grants CDBG funds in 2026 (read the story) * Tree Commission presents recommendations for how City Council can help improve tree canopy (read the story) * In a divided vote, MPO Policy Board moves forward with two Smart Scale projects without city support (read the story) * Albemarle and Charlottesville both mark Older Americans Month (read the story)
Today’s edition is sponsored by Nola BuildsFive times five is not 125, but May 5 is the 125th day of the year and goes by 5/5 no matter what side of the Atlantic you are on. Charlottesville Community Engagement has so far been produced on the Western side but one potential future would be for at least some editions to be created in other parts of the world. After all, it has now been three years since the World Health Organization declared the end of the COVID-19 pandemic global health emergency. This opening paragraph was written while listening to an Italian radio station.
In this edition:* Four nonprofit groups that provide support for unhoused people present the annual State of Homelessness report to Charlottesville City Council * There’s no new public information about how three of those groups will operate a low-barrier shelter at 2000 Holiday Drive * More support has been requested for those in encampments along the Rivanna River but at least one Councilor said another plan is needed
Some thoughts about what this isThis website has been around for over 21 years, but none of it ever really came together as a cohesive information. The Charlottesville Podcasting Network was an experiment, one that resulted in me being hired at Charlottesville Tomorrow where I worked for eleven years.
During that time, I had no room for experimentation. I was told what to do, and I benefited from that discipline. I became the best reporter I could be with a good editor. After eleven years, I’d written so much about this community.
I lost the ability to be independent and experiment. In the summer of 2020, I created Charlottesville Community Engagement as a way of getting back to journalism and experimenting with form.
For the first three and a half years, all of the newsletters were podcasts. That changed in February 2024 when I began doing a radio version for WTJU Public Radio. Since then I’ve been upping my game, and today I was able to get a combination podcast / newsletter out on a very important topic in the community.
I hope this matters. I don’t really know anymore. I feel a calling to do the work, but I have a sense that the public has moved on and doesn’t want what I offer. If this was a purely capitalistic enterprise, I’d have shuttered ages ago.
But I feel we live in an age where no one really knows what to do anymore. There’s a lack of hope about what can be done, and somewhere in all of this is a need for better communication.
Is this it? That’s up to you. And if you want me to have the chance to keep trying, please consider a charitable contribution to Town Crier Productions. If you have questions, let me know. In the meantime, I’ll be working seven days a week to try to get this right.
That gum you like will come back in style.
In this edition:* City Council allows CRHA to form a nonprofit for fundraising purposes (read the story) * Charlottesville Area Transit director briefs CARTA (read the story) * Emily Couric Leadership Forum awards $250,000 in scholarships (read the story) * Regional cigarette tax board turns five this October (read the story) * UVA Finance Committee briefed on need for tuition increase (read the story)
In this edition:* Albemarle County Supervisors adopt a budget for FY2027 that includes $7 million for affordable housing and $386,000 for the Dogwood Vietnam Memorial Foundation (read the story) * Albemarle Supervisors thank staff for turning meeting minutes around faster (read the story) * Council briefed on use of just under $4.5 million in surplus funds including $1.1 million for Angus Road crosswalk improvements (read the story) * City Council poised to reallocate $1.8M to cover cost overruns for Meadow Creek Trail, Pollocks Branch bridge (read the story) * Charlottesville City Manager Sanders provides update on work plan (read the story) * Charlottesville seeks applicants for boards and commissions (learn more)
Stories in this edition:
- Albemarle Supervisors will not move forward with a personal property tax rate increase in 2026 (read the story)
- However, Supervisors do find an additional $2 million for the Affordable Housing Investment Fund (story forthcoming at C-Ville Weekly)
- Area planners hear from VDOT about a desire to coordinate transportation projects (read the story)
- UVA representative to city PC reports on various projects including new access for Center for Politics (read the story)
- Charlottesville’s Department of Neighborhood Development Services announces changes to the city’s Development Code (read the story)
The end of the week has rolled around again which means it is time to scramble out another audio edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement.
This time around there is a big focus on municipal budgeting because the purpose of Town Crier Productions is to focus on the details of revenues and expenditures with a hope toward greater community understanding. At least, that’s the way this version of Sean Tubbs is programmed.
In this edition: Charlottesville City Council has adopted a budget for the next fiscal year that increased the real property tax rate by a penny, one fewer cent than had been proposed (full story here*!) * Albemarle Supervisors have a few remaining decisions to make for the county’s FY2027 budget (read the story) * Albemarle and Charlottesville commemorate Dark Sky Week (read the story) * A preview of the Week Ahead
What has happened in the last week? There are many different organizations that document current events and affairs through the telling of stories and then packaging a look back. This is a journalistic tradition that dates back many years and Charlottesville Community Engagement seeks to continue with this Monday morning look and listen for people to catch up.
Most people read the material while others look forward to every installment of the podcast edition which offers a chance to hear what people sound like. I’m Sean Tubbs and here are five stories you may have missed:
- Charlottesville City Council briefed on low-barrier shelter might work groups that provide the programming (read the story)
- City Council agrees to hire consultant to develop public arts commission for Charlottesville (read the story)
- One of Albemarle County’s community advisory committees weighs in on what they’d like to discuss at this year’s meetings (read the story)
- Albemarle County Executive Jeffrey Richardson shares data points on Albemarle services with Supervisors (read the story)
- The director of the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority gives an update on Long Bridge and expansion of service to Christiansburg (read the story)
In a democracy, local governments play a vital role in providing services to the people who live there and the budget process is a glimpse into the priorities of a locality. There are many complexities for decision-makers to consider, knowing their time in office only continues if they have support of the electorate. This podcast edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement is a snapshot of the budgets in Albemarle County and Charlottesville just before the equinox.
Here are links to stories as they appear on Information Charlottesville.
In this edition:* No major comments at Charlottesville City Council’s first public hearing on two-cent tax rate increase for FY2027 budget (read the story) * Albemarle County Supervisors make adjustments to their proposed budget for FY27 and opt to advertise an increase in the personal property tax rate to dedicate additional revenue to an affordable housing fund (read the story)
Charlottesville Community Engagement is the name of a newsletter and podcast created in the summer of 2026 as a new way of getting information out to people. The show is delivered primarily by Substack but as this year continues, there will be an exploration of other ways to distribute the audio version.
This is a cross-post. For more information on the original, head over to Substack.
In this edition:* Greene Supervisors appoint former member to fill vacancy (learn more) * Albemarle Planning Commission wants to see another design for Windy Knoll (read the story) * Albemarle Supervisors take action on Boulders Road project (need to produce) * Charlottesville PC looks ahead to next set of zoning changes (need to produce) * No tax rate increases included in proposed $724M Albemarle budget for FY2027 (read the story)
December 22, 2025 has arrived and so has this sonic edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement. Many of the longer versions of stories are produced as if they are going to air on the radio, and for this edition two have already done so! The other two have not, but will be among the stories that may be chosen for the December 27 edition that will air on WTJU at 6 a.m. Between now and then the goal is to spend the holiday period combing through a backlog of potential topics. I’m Sean Tubbs, and I’m glad that this is what I do.
In this edition:* Charlottesville Planning Commission seeks some changes to city’s five year CIP (read the story) * Charlottesville ends use of Flock system (read the story) * Charlottesville transitions parking garages to AI-powered access management (read the story) * The Albemarle Planning Commission takes a look at a new tool to be used to measure how the county’s growth area land is being used (read the story)
Not quite in this edition but recently written all the same: Board of Visitors names Darden Dean as next UVA president * Charlottesville City Council makes appointments (link to Substack) * Rezoning sought for between 22 and 110 more units in Hollymead in Albemarle*
Charlottesville Community Enagement is an extension of what this website was intended to do. It is a product of Town Crier Productions and I’m cross-posting it here as a way of trying to rethink what this website could do.
I started this website 19 years ago to experiment with the production of content. At the time I was a freelancer who sold stories for public radio outlets, and the idea of podcasting opened up the potential for new markets and new ways of telling stories.
There are a lot of experiments still posted in those early days, but there was never really much regular content except for Rick Moore’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call and other radio shows.
When I went to work for Charlottesville Tomorrow, my ability to experiment was restricted but I began to write articles that were just text and images. The audio fell behind. Someone else became a caretaker of this site, which I could not keep up anymore.
Four years ago, I became an independent journalist again and I produce a regular newsletter and podcast called Charlottesville Community Engagement. Earlier this year, I began a new partnership with WTJU where they would air a version of the podcast on Saturday mornings.
I’ve not been posting those to this website because I ‘m not sure if there’s audience. I usually just cross-post the WTJU version to the CCE feed.
But this edition is a little different because it inadvertently became a capturing of two different meetings at which Albemarle County’s Comprehensive Plan was discussed. The four-phase review process began in the fall of 2021 and county staff took a pause at the end of the second phase.
This edition of the WTJU podcast contains sonic summaries of the July 9, 2024 meeting of the Albemarle Planning Commission and the July 17, 2024 meeting of the Albemarle Board of Supervisors. If you want to know more about the process, my reporting is one of the only non-government accounts. One of the Supervisors even noted that there were no members of the media present. Since the pandemic, I record from home.
In any case, here are some selected articles I’ve written in the past three years on what the county calls AC44.
- Albemarle Supervisors learn more about upcoming Comprehensive Plan process, October 7, 2021
- Albemarle County Comprehensive Plan review underway, February 7, 2022
- Albemarle Planning Commission reviews seven options for growth management, August 3, 2022
- Phase 2 of Albemarle Comprehensive Plan review underway, January 24, 2023
- Albemarle releases new AC44 documents on growth area expansion criteria, June 7, 2023
- To expand growth areas or not to expand? Albemarle CAC members weigh in, July 25, 2023
- Albemarle Planning Commission weighs in on criteria to expand development area, September 1, 2023
- Should uses in Albemarle’s Crossroads Communities be expanded?, September 9, 2023
- Checking in with AC44 as update’s third phase looms, November 17, 2023
- Albemarle Planning Commission urge a balance of aspiration and realism in county’s housing goals, November 26, 2023
- Speakers weigh in on Crossroads Communities in AC44, January 13, 2024
- Planning Commissioners briefed on “refinement” of AC44 process, July 17, 2024
- Public engagement to happen before Albemarle staff release AC44 draft, August 2, 2024
This website is nearly 19 years old, and doesn’t really have any original content of its own. But without the Charlottesville Podcasting Network, there is no way I would have ever been able to be where I am today—in an era of never-ending experimentation!
For most of its time, Charlottesville Community Engagement has been a newsletter and podcast. The recent creation of a radio version that airs on WTJU Radio on Saturdays at 6 a.m. has disrupted much of the workflow. This week, the WTJU Rock Marathon pre-empted my show. That gave me some extra time on Saturday to produce this edition.
Here’s what you will hear:
- Charlottesville City Council adopts a budget that reflects a move toward unionization of the city’s workforce, higher salaries for city employees, and lower education funding from the state due to increasing property values (read the story)
- There’s a problem with excessive dog waste being left at the city’s newest park (read the story)
- Charlottesville’s parks and recreation officials want your input on the next master plan to guide the future of public spaces in the city (read the story)
- The city has a plan to fix drainage issues in Oakwood Cemetery and will further discuss the issue on April 24 (read the story)
- Albemarle and Charlottesville both need more lifeguards for the summer season (read the story)
- Charlottesville’s Planning Commission gets an update on the new Development Code (read the story)
- Albemarle Supervisors have comments on recent deployment of the HART team and a bomb threat at Planet Fitness (read the story )
- The Albemarle Department of Social Services helps a lot of people each year and Supervisors get a briefing (read the story)
- Albemarle Supervisors weigh in on expanded uses in the rural area as part of the Comprehensive Plan process (read the story)
Welcome to the April 6, 2024 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement. I’m Sean Tubbs of Town Crier Productions, a company that seeks to increase awareness of what’s happening at meetings of local government in the greater Charlottesville area. If you click through to the podcast, you will hear a series of stories that have appeared in the newsletter and podcast this past little while.
- Members of the public speak at hearing on Charlottesville’s next draft budget, which was originally built on three tax rate increases (read the story)
- Council approves about $1.3 million in funds from the current budget for affordable housing projects (read the story)
- Council also reallocates another $90K in federal funds to BEACON kitchen (read the story)
- On Monday, Council’s newest member called for a steep increase in the personal property tax to discourage automobile usage (read the story)
- On Thursday, Council agreed in principle to support a budget based on a 20 cent increase in the personal property tax rate (read the story)
Good morning and welcome to Charlottesville Community Engagement for Saturday. March 23. What is this? It’s a weekly look at some of what’s been happening in local and regional government in the part of Virginia where WTJU broadcasts. I’m Sean Tubbs, a journalist keen on writing as much as I can and sharing it in a variety of places.
This website is one of those places! I created this in 2005 as an experiment and that’s still what I aim to do every day I’m at work. This is another example of Town Crier Productions.
In this edition:
- Albemarle Deputy Fire Chief for Emergency Management details efforts to fight brush fires this week that burned hundred of acres (read the story)
- Charlottesville City School names a new principal for Charlottesville High School (read the story)
- Details on Charlottesville’s FY25 budget from across a series of work sessions this month (read one story) (read the other)
- Charlottesville’s Finance Director updates Council on how $19.6 million in ARPA funds have been used (read the story)
- Social and health metrics program garners Charlottesville a National League of Cities Award (read the story)
Albemarle Deputy Fire Chief John Oprandy at a March 21, 2024 press conference (Credit: Sean Tubbs)
Good morning and welcome to Charlottesville Community Engagement for March 16, 2024. I’m Sean Tubbs, a local journalist who created a company called Town Crier Productions four years ago to increase coverage of municipal governments in the area around Charlottesville. This week on radio version for WTJU, we solely look at public transportation in the community and efforts to increase service while also choosing vehicles that will help Charlottesville meet goals to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
To learn more and to read the script, visit the Substack newsletter and podcast home page.
On the program today:
- The Regional Transit Partnership directs staff to prepare the by-laws for a potential transit authority
- Charlottesville City Council agrees to a pilot project where Charlottesville Area Transit buys two battery-electric vehicles now and agrees to have staff research the potential purchase of two hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in 2027
- The interim CEO of Jaunt responds to comments made by a representative of the transit union
- The Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission’s Board of Directors approves continued work to create the transit authority
This is the archive edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement for Saturday, March 9, 2024. I’m Sean Tubbs, a local journalist who writes about infrastructure, budgets, and all sorts of decisions about what gets built. What you’re going to hear is a digest of stories that have been used this week in the podcast version of a newsletter I send out, with much of the sound coming from local government meetings. The idea is to capture this moment in our community’s history in as much detail as possible.
On today’s program:
- The University of Virginia surpasses its $5 billion fundraising campaign and gets two major donations from the Harrison Foundation (read the story)
- An update on UVA’s efforts to build between 1,000 and 1,500 affordable housing units across the community (read the story on C-Ville Weekly)
- The Buildings and Grounds Committee of the UVA Board of Visitors takes action on several items including approving the location for a new parking garage to serve North Grounds (read the story)
- Charlottesville City Manager Sam Sanders recommends a fiscal year 2025 budget based on raising the real property tax, the meals tax, and the lodging tax to cover the cost of paying unionized and non-unionized city employees more money and benefits (read the story)
- Three new members have been appointed to the city’s Housing Advisory Committee (read the story)
- Charlottesville City Council reallocates $215,000 in federal funds that will enable allow the the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank to offer more produce (read the story)
(Air date: March 2, 2024)
Hello and welcome again to another radio version of Charlottesville Community Engagement, customized for WTJU. I’m Sean Tubbs, the president of Town Crier Productions, a company I set up in 2020 to create stories about what’s happening in the localities surrounding the University of Virginia. Since July 2020, I’ve produced these in newsletter and podcast form, but
I’m glad now to bring some of these stories to you over the airwaves.
In this edition:
- The City of Charlottesville has been served with a lawsuit seeking the overturning of the new zoning code and will respond in court on March 15 (needs pick-up)
- Representatives from 4H, Habitat for Humanity, and the Legal Aid Justice Center all seek additional funding in Albemarle FY25 budget
- Just before the Albemarle budget was presented, county officials sent out a report listing what got accomplished in 2023
- The $38 million Belmont Bridge will be completed under an emergency contract to help address public safety
- A group of UVA students seek reform for the way Charlottesville uses one pot of federal money
On February 24, 2024, the very first installment of a new customized version of Charlottesville Community Engagement created for WTJU. I’m Sean Tubbs, a community journalist who started this website in 2005 as an experiment in community journalism! That adventure continues with an omnibus version of the regular podcast.
Back in the summer of 2020, I started a newsletter and podcast about what’s called “the built environment.” What is that? Here’s a definition from the United States Environmental Protection Agency:
“The built environment touches all aspects of our lives, encompassing the buildings we live in, the distribution systems that provide us with water and electricity, and the roads, bridges, and transportation systems we use to get from place to place.”
Charlottesville Community Engagement tries to cover as much of that as possible in the area around the University of Virginia and what’s known as the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission. Listen to enough of these and you’ll get to know more about how decisions are made and how you might get involved.
On this program:
- A 59-year-old Charlottesville man was killed crossing U.S. 29 Tuesday evening, very near the location of a planned pedestrian bridge and in an area where more housing units are soon expected
- Two engineers with the Virginia Department of Transportation discuss the upcoming construction of several projects at Hydraulic and U.S. 29 including that bridge
- Elected officials in Nelson County and Greene County learn about a transportation safety study that the regional planning district is producing to help get more funding for construction of such projects
- Albemarle County is moving ahead with changes the Square in Crozet
- County Executive Jeffrey Richardson unveils a $629 million budget for fiscal year 2025
Before you go: The Charlottesville Podcasting Network is a product of Town Crier Productions, a company formed in 2020 as part of my return to journalism. The material in this program is assembled from editions of Charlottesville Community Engagement that seeks to report as much as possible about how things get built.
To ensure this research can be sustained, please consider becoming a paid subscriber or contributing monthly through Patreon.
At their meeting on January 17, 2024, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors reviewed draft goals and objectives for five of the eight chapters in the update of the Comprehensive Plan. The process is called AC44. This audio originally appeared in the January 26, 2024 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement and is also archived on Information Charlottesville. I’m cross-posting audio to this site as an experiment and furtherance of the archive!
This is the Charlottesville Podcasting Network with a longer form audio segment from something that happened this week. In this case, the election of officers for Charlottesville City Council for the next two years. I’m Sean Tubbs, and I posted a smaller version of this earlier this week in the January 2, 2024 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement.
Every week I take the segments from that newsletter and upload them to Information Charlottesville. Sometimes I add more to the story or update it as best as I can. I’m doing that now for this story because I wanted to get some comments from City Councilor Lloyd Snook in the original version, but I had a tight deadline to meet.
So this morning as I opened up Audition to go back and find that section for the second version, I decided why not go ahead and create something for this website as well? After all, this website is what launched my presence in this community back in 2005.
There’s no transcript for this one as I don’t want to transcribe all of this. I want people to hear the voices of the people who make decisions on our behalf. So this year I hope to offer more on this website because it’s very much part of the Town Crier Productions world.
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The first meeting each year of legislative bodies in most of Virginia’s localities starts a little bit different than all of the others. The community’s executive leader or another top official starts begins as presiding officer because one hasn’t been selected yet.
That was the case on January 2, 2024, when Charlottesville City Manager Sam Sanders opened the meeting followed by the calling of the roll by Clerk Kyna Thomas. Take a listen to see how it went!
On December 18, 2023, Charlottesville City Council unanimously adopted a new zoning code intended to make it easier for developers to build more housing. The idea is that increased supply will bring down the overall cost. Another idea is to increase requirements for developers to build affordable units.
This is a topic I’ve been covering extensively on Charlottesville Community Engagement, a newsletter and podcast I created in the summer of 2020 as a way of getting back to journalism.
I don’t cross-post the show here because it has its own distribution channel through Substack. However, the December 22 edition of the program went out without the podcast version for various reasons. So before it goes out to the full list, I’m posting it here as a final edition for 2023. Here’s the newsletter version if you’ve not seen it before.
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Hello! I’m Sean Tubbs, the creator of this website. Last year I got the website back but I’ve not really done too much with it. But say hello in the comments if you read this! 2023 is the new 2005.
This is an audio story created as part of November 11, 2023 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement. That’s a newsletter and podcast that is only possible because of the existence of what would go by the acronym CPN.
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I’m not sure of this website’s future, but I know its past is where I was able to experiment. I am grateful to Dan Gould for his maintenance of the site over the years.
And here we are, with this quick story about upcoming maintenance on trees on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall. In an attempt to be even more confusing about where my content is published in late 2023, here’s the article as it appears on Information Charlottesville.
After spending several hours on two rezonings under the city’s existing development rules, the Charlottesville Planning Commission spent 80 minutes on continued deliberations about what they would recommend to City Council. Would they make a recommendation?
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From Cardinal Corner:
We are excited to welcome back local Avenue Realty realtor Stasia Rice to discuss rent-friendly home improvement projects! Rentals are increasingly popular around the Charlottesville area, but some may be hesitant to know how to make it feel more like home while still meeting rent requirements. In this episode, Stasia gives us excellent tips on possibilities for your space!
Please note; some of the advice in this episode may be location-specific. Please consult your local realtor and/or property manager before getting started.
From Cardinal Corner:
Not sure what blinds and shades are right for your space?
Hunter Douglas provides countless options for the rooms you spend the most time in, such as your office, living room, and kitchen. In this episode, Maggie talks with Hunter Douglas specialists Judy Wagoner and Ally Catlett to help you find the right solution.
Listen on:
- Google Podcasts
- Spotify
- Amazon Music
- Apple Podcasts
From the very beginning of this website, audio recordings of speeches and panel discussions have been a hallmark. There are hours and hours of recordings from the Senior Statesmen of Virginia. There’s been a pause in those recordings but starting now I’m hopeful I’ll be able to bring you the audio of future events which … Continue reading "Senior Statesmen of Virginia: Public Safety – How Safe is Our Community?"
From Cardinal Corner: Not sure what blinds and shades are right for your space? Hunter Douglas provides countless options for the rooms you spend the most time in, such as your office, living room, and kitchen. In this episode, Maggie talks with Hunter Douglas specialists Judy Wagoner and Ally Catlett to help you find the right solution. … Continue reading "Cardinal Corner Episode 9: Choosing the Right Blinds & Shades for Your Home"
From Cardinal Corner: In the mood to paint but don’t want to take on too big of a space? As we wrap up our paint series, Maggie talked with Steve Smith from our Crozet location to discover small paint projects that don’t take a lot of paint and supplies but can impact your space. Listen … Continue reading "Episode 8: Small Paint Projects with a Big Impact"
From Cardinal Corner: For many, there might be an urge to jump in and start painting a space. Maggie talks with Michael Freeman about why that is generally not the best idea and some points you should consider as you prepare to paint your space. Listen on: Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Apple Podcasts
From Cardinal Corner: On this episode, Maggie talks with Michael Freeman from our Crozet store about finding the right Benjamin Moore paint for your project. With so many different surfaces, it can be hard to narrow down what you need for your project and how all of the options differ. Listen on: Google Podcasts Spotify … Continue reading "Cardinal Corner Episode 6: How to Choose the Right Paint"
From Cardinal Corner: It is sometimes said that kitchens are the heart of your home. While some use it as a major hub for entertaining, it is more often a gathering place for family and friends alike. Because we spend so much time in this area, it is worthwhile to make it your own. We … Continue reading "Episode 5: Kitchen Design Trends and Remodels"
Yesterday was the federal holiday of Juneteenth to mark the end of legal and state-sanctioned slavery in United States of America. On June 7, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors issued a proclamation recognizing the occasion. “On June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed to free all enslaved people, enslaved … Continue reading "Ed Brooks accepts Albemarle Board of Supervisor proclamation on Juneteenth"
From Cardinal Corner: In our previous episodes, we talked with some of our Cardinal experts about ensuring you choose the best materials when building your home. We stopped by our Greenbrier Drive location in Charlottesville to talk to Judy Wagoner and Dianna Campagna, two of our design specialists. Listen on: Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music … Continue reading "Cardinal Corner Episode 4: Choosing the Best Materials For Your Home"
From Cardinal Corner: Remodels can be complicated, and ensuring you have a plan before you start is critical. We talked with Annita Steppe, a Cardinal Home Center sales associate for seven years, about her experience working with both customers and contractors and the common issues she sees pop up. Listen on: Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon … Continue reading "Cardinal Corner Episode 3: Your Top Remodel Questions, Answered"
From the Cardinal Corner: To start our first series, we took some time to talk to Matt Utz, our Madison store manager. With an extensive background in home construction and nearly 20 years working with both contractors and homeowners at Cardinal Home Center, Matt has certainly seen it all. This episode dives into some of … Continue reading "Cardinal Corner Episode 2: Recommendations for New Home Construction"
This website was started in 2005 as an experiment in podcasting. Eighteen years later, that’s what it still very much is. Since Town Crier Productions took the site back over in 2022, there’s not been much printed here. Most of the activity is over on the Charlottesville Community Engagement feed on Substack or on Information Charlottesville. … Continue reading "Cardinal Corner: A podcast produced by the Cardinal Home Center"
Since reacquiring management of the Charlottesville Podcasting Network, I have resisted posting material here. When I created this site, it was just to experiment with the technology. Thousands of podcasts later, there is a lot here I want to keep as an archive of a certain time.
But I also want to add things, even if those things may just be repurposed content from my other work at Town Crier Productions. That’s the company I created in 2020 to help me figure out how to make a living covering the world around me as a journalist.
So, I think what I may do for a time is continue to post these and to add a little commentary about the stories where I can. I’m not doing that for this one, nor am I going to repost all of the text. You can read that on Information Charlottesville.
Anyway, here are the first two paragraphs of the story to whet your appetite.
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The current administration of the City of Charlottesville has inherited a city government that has struggled to turn ideas for road and multimodal improvement into completed projects. For instance, the Commonwealth Transportation Board awarded three Smart Scale grants to the city in 2016, but none of them has yet gone to construction. The city saved up millions for a West Main Streetscape project that was canceled last year with the money reprioritized for the renovation of Buford Middle School.
The task of reforming the city’s transportation process has fallen to Deputy City Manager Sam Sanders. Last year, he worked with the Virginia Department of Transportation on a plan to fix the city’s broken process, including the cancellation of a couple other projects. Last year, the city did not submit any applications through the Smart Scale process. That was one concession to VDOT officials who have become impatient with the city’s inability to deliver.
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Michael Kochis will be the next police chief for the City of Charlottesville. He was the final selection of interim City Manager Michael C. Rogers and approved by City Council on December 5, 2022. He will start work on January 16, 2023.
On December 6, Rogers held a virtual press conference to allow members of the media to ask questions of the new chief, who comes to the position after being the chief for the Town of Warrenton in Fauquier County.
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On October 18, 2022, the Center for Politics held a seminar in the Rotunda at the University of Virginia called “Hacking Our Elections.” Charlottesville Community Engagement recorded the event and produced this six minute podcast summary. To read this story, please visit Information Charlottesville.
The falling of the leaves is the sign of many things, but the onslaught of autumn also marks the coming of the next Virginia Film Festival. Here’s a very brief preview of the 35th annual event, which will take place November 2 through November 6. This piece was originally part of the October 12, 2022 edition … Continue reading "Virginia Film Festival’s 35th annual program is announced"
On May 19, 2022, a crowd assembled at the intersection of East Market Street and 3rd Street NW in downtown Charlottesville to watch the unveiling of a historic marker to commemorate an important moment in the desegregation of education in Virginia. In 1950, Gregory Swanson applied to attend the University of Virginia School of Law, … Continue reading "Historical Marker unveiled at Central Library for crucial desegregation case of Swanson v. UVA"
The Reverend Alex Joyner is the pastor of Charlottesville First United Methodist Church, and he wants to ask questions about what it takes to make a place more whole. One thread in his questioning is the future of Market Street Park in downtown Charlottesville. In late February of 2022, Reverend Joyner spoke with Elizabeth Catte … Continue reading "Whole City Podcast: A conversation with Elizabeth Catte on Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia"
Welcome to the all new CPN! We’ve modernized our site to use the very latest technology to continue to deliver high quality audio as we have done for the last 17 years. And, as always, thanks for listening. We’re glad you’re here.
Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Dr. Pam Moran, Executive Director of The Virginia School Consortium for Learning: Leading and Learning Together and Gena Keller, Executive Director, of the The Commonwealth Learning Partnership about current trends in the public education.
Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with University of Virginia President Jim Ryan and Piedmont Community College President Frank Friedman about the current state of college education in Virginia.
Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Jim Duncan from Nest Realty and Matt Hodges from Presidential Bank Mortgage about the real estate market in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.
Elizabeth Beasley and Putnam Ivey de Cortez spoke at the February 2022 meeting of the Senior Statesmen of Virginia.
Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with .William Antholis, Director and CEO of UVA's Miller Center for Public Affairs about how US Presidents faired during their first year in office.
Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Charlottesville Mayor Lloyd Snook about the current state of the City of Charlottesville.
Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Professor Christopher Alifrom the University of Virginia Department of Media Studies about his recent book, Farm Fresh Broadband about broadband deployment in rural and urban areas.
Ngiste Abebe, vice president of Columbia Care, a leading cannabis company, spoke at the January 2022 meeting of the Senior Statesmen of Virginia.
Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with attorney Doris Gelbman of Gelbman Law PLLC and Katie Caverly, Managing Director at IKOR of Charlottesville about guardianship of adults.
This week on the Sunday Morning Wake-up Call, producer Dan Gould takes a look back at three stories we ran in 2021.
This week on The Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore is joined by Santa and Peppermint the Elf who call several lucky boys and girls to find out what’s on their Christmas lists for this year.
The Sunday Morning Wake-up Call is heard on Real Oldies 97.9 The WREN, Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon.
Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Virginia Institute of Autism President and CEO, Ethan Long, and VIA Admissions and Family Support Services Coordinator, Hilary Nagel, about the work their organization is doing to help people on the autism spectrum. Topics include: The three levels of autism, and services offered by the VIA.
The Sunday Morning Wake-up Call is heard on Real Oldies 97.9 The WREN, Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon.
From left to right: Peter Thompson, Kim Volker, George Worthington, Jeff Gould and Sue Friedman
Peter Thompson, Executive Director of The Center and a founding leader of the The Charlottesville Area Alliance (CAA), George Worthington the dementia services coordinator for Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, and Kim Volker manager of Virginia Care is There, a geriatric care management company, spoke at the December 2021 meeting of the Senior Statesmen of Virginia.
Peter presented an overview of CAA whose mission is to lead the advancement of an age friendly community which is good for everyone. CAA has been accepted as a partner in the WHO/AARP age-friendly network, which gives the group access to a global network of advisors and groups working toward similar goals. There are eight standards for successful communities including outdoor space, transportation, housing, social inclusion and health services.
George Worthington spoke on age and dementia friendly perspective working together and including a dementia friendly aspect to its plans such as dementia friends’ initiative to keep individuals involved in the community. He also presented information of the CAA’s social participation action plan to increase participation and education to foster the understanding of aging and dementia and CAA’s housing efforts.
Kim Volker provided information on CAA’s new alliance: citizen advocates to increase the engagement of citizens in legislative priorities identified by CAA. The final topic was the CAA goals for transportation such as bus stop improvements.
The three spoke at the Wednesday December 8, 2021 meeting of the Senior Statesmen of Virginia. The meeting was held at The Center in Charlottesville and simulcast on Zoom. Following the presentation, questions were taken from the audience. The program was introduced by SSV President Jeff Gould and moderated by Vice President Sue Friedman.
Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Renee Branson and Bass Wolf of SARA – The Sexual Assault Resource Agency about their organization’s work helping survivors of sexual assault. Topics include: What to expect when calling the SARA 24/7 crisis hotline and a review of the organization’s many services.
The Sunday Morning Wake-up Call is heard on Real Oldies 97.9 The WREN, Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon.
Jennifer Lawless and Paul Freedman
Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Jennifer Lawless from the University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and Commonwealth Professor of Politics and Paul Freedman from the University of Virginia Department of Politics Program in Environmental Thought and Practice about the 2021 governors race in Virginia. Exit polls and voter demographics are discussed.
The Sunday Morning Wake-up Call is heard on Real Oldies 97.9 The WREN, Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon.
William Shobe
William Shobe, professor at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, spoke on the energy transition initiative that Virginia reduce electricity carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 and the pathways to reach this goal cost effectively. He discussed not only the opportunities to accomplish this, but also the roadblocks to getting there. Professor Shobe spoke at the November meeting of the Senior Statesmen of Virginia.
In this podcast Shobe points out that in 2006 Virginia reached the peak of carbon emissions and there has now been a considerable drop off. The reason behind this decline is the decrease in coal use and the increase in natural gas. After years of minimal usage of renewable energy sources, there is now a growing interest in hydro, solar and wind energy production. Since 2010 the importation of electricity into Virginia has decreased reducing carbon emissions. Since 2016 solar production has become increasingly popular. Currently the cheapest new resource to build is solar. According to Shobe, in 2021 Virginia has produced the same amount of energy from solar as coal,
Professor Shobe is hopeful that costs will come down in some energy sectors and new technologies will be available to make products more affordable. In the end, he feels with advance planning and cooperation a zero-carbon emission goal may be accomplished.
Professor Shobe spoke at the Wednesday November 10, 2021 meeting of the Senior Statesmen of Virginia. The meeting was held at The Center in Charlottesville and simulcast on Zoom. Following the presentation, questions were taken from the audience. The program was introduced by SSV President Jeff Gould and moderated by SSV Past President Bob McGrath.