Michael Strickland has been interning at NBC 29, and wrote yesterday about falling into the trap of “if it bleeds, it leads.”
Sideblog
- The county won't get $2.8M of the city's school funding after all. Del. Bell's budget amendment failed. #
- City Council is rethinking the new branding for CTS. #
- Wild Virginia is hosting an environmental film festival at Vinegar Hill in a couple of weeks, showing a whole mess of short films on that theme. #
- You can get The Daily Progress on your Kindle. It's a very reasonable $4.49/month. #
- The county appears to be backing down on cutting JMRL's funding, led by Lindsay Dorrier. #
- Albemarle Police have investigated and punished four officers for misconduct, but that's about all they're saying. #
- Yet again, a large-scale melee broke out at Fashion Square, more than 100 teenagers shutting it down last night. See also July 2007 and January 2008. #
- Still got stinkbugs from the October invasion? Get to know your tenants. #
- For you
CTSCAT riders out there, the HoosBus iPhone app is great. It's free. # - One in ten downtown storefronts is vacant. #
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