This is a partial archive for the Charlottesville Quarantine Report, a podcast that began in the early days of the pandemic in March 2020. This eventually transformed into Charlottesville Community Engagement.
We are very close to the election, and many people have already cast their ballots. Many more will do so as early in-person voting and they have until Saturday at 5 p.m. to do so. In our part of Virginia, the main item on the ballot this year are elections of the U.S. House of…
There are now six days until Election Day and as of yesterday, 688,302 Virginians have voted early. That’s according to data collected by the Virginia Public Access Project. About a tenth of that number comes from the Fifth District where Democrat Josh Throneburg is looking to unseat Republican first-term incumbent Bob Good. Both candidates sat down…
The Charlottesville Community Engagement newsletter and podcast got its start in the early days of the pandemic when I launched the Charlottesville Quarantine Report. I was not working as a journalist but when faced with a crisis that had been brewing all winter, I began devoting my time to getting out information. In the early days…
This is a rough transcript for this program, and as such is not formatted like a news story. Yet I know that many prefer to read these, so I took the time to write it all out. But now I need to move on tomorrow’s episode of the Charlottesville Community Engagement newsletter. The national election…
This fourth episode mostly takes a look solely at Albemarle County, and how officials there are working in real time to find their way in a shifting normal. Denise Bonds “We are living through a very difficult time and we have never experienced this before and there are a number of sacrifices that people…
This is the third in a series of podcasts I am producing to help document this fluid situation as we begin to realize the totality of what shutting down restaurants and other businesses means for the economy of a place like Charlottesville. I personally am staying at home to help prevent spreading a virus that…
On March 16, 2020, the Charlottesville City Council held a historic meeting at which most of the public participants were at home, isolating themselves from others as part of our community’s response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Four out of the five Councilors were present in City Council chambers, as were most of the senior…
I thought I would go ahead and create a podcast to help share information on what’s going on in the Charlottesville and Albemarle area.