The Charlottesville Climate Action Plan is 97 pages long and chock-full of graphs, charts, and infographics. While the plan will affect everyone who lives in the city, the document can hardly be considered digestible for the average resident. On February 8, the Piedmont chapter of the Virginia Sierra Club attempted to rectify this. The nonprofit […]
“We want to not have data like this,” Katina Otey said candidly at the February 2 Charlottesville School Board meeting. The chief academic officer’s presentation on student conduct revealed a troubling trend. “A majority of [conduct violation] incidents were committed by Black students,” she said. “And male students.” Seventy-seven percent of students suspended in Charlottesville […]
On November 15, 2021, the City of Charlottesville approved a comprehensive plan to address equity issues in land use, transportation, and housing. A vital component of this plan was to increase affordable housing, specifically by building more duplexes and apartment buildings in areas traditionally reserved for single-family housing. But every new housing project involves a […]