May 20, 2026
This is a hidden page I may or may not have published in the past. I’m going to experiment with having this posted for the day for some reason.
June 15, 2025
A reader sent this in:
“Dude, I just want to say a quick thanks for these updates. I don’t always read them, but I wish I did! You keep me updated with the stuff that matters. Thanks!”
August 28, 2022
At one point I think the idea was to update this page with whatever I was working on. I think it would be interesting to write out all of the things I do outside of my regular publications. At some point I realized this was likely not possible to keep up with, and as you can see, this realization became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It’s technically not published. Even as I write this I don’t know if I can look at it or not if I’m not logged in. I don’t wish to have this be public.
It’s not. It shows up as an item and I need to clear that out now.
January 17, 2022
Appeared on WINA’s Charlottesville Right Now with Courteney Stuart. I am hoping I can find a way to embed these here. For now, here’s the link.
January 3, 2022
Funny story. I had intended to write up a year in review post, but there was so much research to get through. I’ve still not finished! I write so much in the Charlottesville Community Engagement newsletter and I am trying to add as much of it as I can to this archival blog. This has taken a lot of time, and as of today I’m still only up to April 21!
And now the year has begun. The first Week Ahead of 2022 is posted, and I’m working on the next newsletter. I may not make it back to the year in review in Twitter. But, I do want to document what I have written. Unfortunately, I broke the thread in two.
- Thread number one
- Thread number two
- Thread number three will resume at some point
December 22, 2021
I wrote a year-in-review summary on local development issues for C-Ville Weekly. Take a look!
I was on WINA’s Charlottesville Right Now with Courteney Stuart on Monday. Take a listen! And explain the clip-art?
December 20, 2021
What would happen if you created a website to post content, and you didn’t actually put anything on the latest content page? What if you admitted you didn’t quite know how to set up a website?
That’s the current content of this page. I’m writing this to finally add something here It’s the early morning and I’m writing the next edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement which I hope to post as soon as I can. However, I’ve not made my way there yet. I’m appearing on WINA’s Charlottesville Right-Now with Courteney Stuart later today and I’ve promised I’d have more information about how people can access my work. I’m still trying to figure that out. I also want to see if I can embed these here. I see they use Soundcloud to distribute the podcast but you appear to have to be on their website to make it work. Go listen to one of the segments from last week.
So now there’s something on this page. It’s not right yet, but I’ll write something decent soon. Maybe this is a place where I can describe what I’m working on to the general public? Especially in these early morning moments where I realize I have to do more than just produce the newsletters and podcasts! Of course, I have to do that part, too.
December 15, 2021
Here are some of the questions that guide my work:
“What do we want the city to look like in the future? The community needs services if we are to be a denser place. What is the role of the municipal government in this, and what are the limits of their authority? How are decisions made, and are the right structures in place to convey political will as decided by the electorate into actionable mechanisms that can affect people’s lives? How well are the products of existing structures communicated to the general public? How can the public know if progress is being made? How do they know how progress is defined? How can all of the theoretical ideas be manifested in policy that actually works? What happens when things don’t work out? Who is responsible when things do not work out? At what point do we let that last question go and look to the future?”