Matthew Stoss made his C-VILLE debut romanticizing hotel bars. A former reporter at the Harrisonburg Daily News- Record, he’s been a university magazine editor for the past 10 years and an occasional pencil for hire. He’s profiled an Oscar winner, an Olympic bobsledder, a National Book Award winner, a Batman artist, a Michelin-star chef, a submarine commander, and the Smithsonian secretary, among other people you might have heard of. He lives in Richmond.
Campaign life doesn’t leave much room for nuance. Jen Fleisher’s trying anyway.
Even before Jen Fleisher became an official Charlottesville City Council candidate, she was a public figure—or at least a quasi public figure. Not public figure classic, but public figure lite. A Virginia Department of Health official since March 2020, she led the Blue Ridge Health District’s mobile COVID vaccination efforts. Fleisher spoke often with the […]