Richmond's hired attorneys want a judge to ban the city's former FOIA officer from filing FOIA requests. They're also seeking a gag order that would prevent her from speaking to the media. richmonder.org/citys-hired-at…

'Skill game' operator was main source of funds to federal PAC that donated to Rouse’s campaigns cardinalnews.org/2025/08/08/ski…

"Some of those requests, the city argues, “appear intended to humiliate and harass.”" These attorneys need to take a look in the mirror.

Witnesses describe a chaotic scene on board the USNS Roy P. Benavidez in the early hours of May 24, 2024, when Sgt. Quandarius Stanley was critically injured, according to an Army investigation obtained by WHRO. whro.org/military-veter…

News: Los Angeles Times journalists plan to hold a strike authorization vote -- their first ever -- as negotiations for a new union contract drag on nearly 3 years

More Filipino cruise ship workers detained, deported from Norfolk-based Carnival Sunshine whro.org/business-growt…

Wow. On NPR, Geoff Brumfiel reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.

WHRO health reporter Yiqing Wang brings us a powerful story about what support while going through an abortion can mean for someone - and how that experience inspired one person to help create a grassroots group to do just that in Hampton Roads. whro.org/health/2025-08…

7 appears to be the answer. 7 FT news reporters left at the daily newspaper in a capital city, if the 3 and this list are correct (and my math). richmond.com/contact/staff/

how in the world is tidewater virginia, one of the most haunting places on earth not "the south"

🚨 The Federal Bureau of Prisons just terminated its union's collective bargaining agreement and will no longer recognize them as a union as of this afternoon, according to this letter posted online by the national union president:

WHRO News had tons of events coming up around Tidewater, and we want to hear your thoughts 🫵 Come out to our Election Listening Sessions, Candidate Forums, and MAJOR Panel Event featuring our journalists to have your voice be heard! ➡️ LIBRARY LISTENING SESSIONS SEPT 27TH:

Just want to underscore - this is the full news reporting and editing staff of the daily newspaper in the state capital. He didn't crop it. 0 reporters dedicated to Henrico, Chesterfield or Hanover. AKA, where the 1 million of RVA's 1.3 million people live

🧨GOP gubernatorial nominee Winsome Earle-Sears failed to disclose a $12,000 “gift” and multiple donor-funded trips on her ethics forms. The omissions are part of a years-long pattern now raising questions about her transparency and trust in government virginiamercury.com/2025/10/08/fin…

This term came up in the debate from one of the moderators twice.

Thought I would have heard about this if it were true. Two Commonwealth’s Attorneys (including Republican CA in Hanover) and three police departments involved say no illegal aliens shot at police on Sunday. Winsome Earle-Sears flack says their source on this is WTVR.

A 12-minute body cam video shows Turnstile concert organizers were livid with the Richmond Sheriff's office over the pepper spray incident. In the immediate aftermath, they said the guy who did it lied by claiming it was an accident richmonder.org/body-cam-foota…

"Cardinal News attempted to contact all 100 members of the House of Delegates and, where they have them, their opponents in this fall’s election, to ask their position on the proposed amendment. Not a single Democratic legislator replied." cardinalnews.org/2025/10/27/dem…

I'm editing now, but that doesn't mean I'm not dipping back into reporting from time to time. My latest: whro.org/local-governme…

Neat!