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February 18, 2009

STYLE eyes the baseball stadium deal

"The Umpire's New Clothes," penned by STYLE Weekly's Scott Bass, is an in-depth look at some of the cogs and wheels of t ...

February 5, 2009

Local Sierra Club opposes baseball in Shockoe Bottom

The Sierra Club Falls of the James Group opposes the Shockoe Center baseball stadium proposal based on principles of con ...

January 12, 2009

The Tenth Commandment

With a new year underway, a new mayor in City Hall and new president about to sworn in, this piece I wrote for STYLE ...

January 5, 2009

Regional cooperation is THE issue

It was true last year. It’s true today: Lack of regional cooperation lies at the heart of many of Richmond’s ...

December 17, 2008

Sunlight in 2009

“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” -- Justice Louis Brandeis Over the last year, what had b ...

December 9, 2008

New baseball stadium in The Bottom? No way!

At SLANTblog there's a post on baseball as a local political issue. Lately, when I hear somebody talking about building ...

December 8, 2008

Changing city streets

During the recent mayoral campaign candidate Paul Goldman floated an idea about making Cary St. in the Carytown neighbor ...

November 19, 2008

Murden in the 7th?

Special elections are called when a vacancy occurs, such as the one the election of Dwight Jones as mayor of Richmond ha ...

November 8, 2008

Advice to Mayor-elect Jones

Read Roy Scherer's advice to the mayor-elect below. Mayor-elect Dwight Jones has trotted out his transition team. I ...

November 2, 2008

Commentary: Old labels don’t stick

In the midst of the Cold War, left-right labels -- liberal and conservative -- made some sense. In the 1960s liberal ...

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