Furniture Expenses and Sources Needed
Cheers RVA!
Today should be mostly sunny with a high of 83. Enjoy it!
the juice:
The city’s registrar, Keith Balmer, has had his City credit card suspended after spending 70k on furniture, food, art, hotels, and a mini-bar in 2023. Jon Baliles newsletter, RVA 5×5, has an in-depth look:
Pardon my French, but that is an absolute nonsense and lame excuse to cover up for the ineptness and the lack of accountability and absence of administrative competence at City Hall.
Baliles ran for mayor in 2020, but eventually supported Kim Gray. He once worked for Mayor Stoney but is no longer a fan, to say the least.
Apparently Balmer spent $9600 at LaDIFF for furniture and $769 at Value City, among other meanderings on the City credit card.
the pulp:
Shenandoah County appears to be the first in the nation to restore Confederate school names, via the Mercury
Man found dead in car from gunshot wound in Northside, near the 400 block of East Brookland Parkway, from channel 6
The Louisa County man arrested in Turks and Caicos for bringing ammunition to the island will have his plea hearing tomorrow, via channel 8. He has been in custody since his April 23 arrest.
New overhead entrance sign to come to Carytown, from BizSense. The sign has been in the works since 2011 and is funded by Federal money from the Pandemic Rescue Plan.
The sign will be suspended above the road!
the dive:
We are approaching the one-month anniversary of the official CheersRVA newsletter! Here is the first ever edition.
I’d like to thank my readers for the positive feedback. I am currently looking for more sources of information about news in Richmond. The following are the main sources I’ve been using so far:
Virginia-Mercury
BizSense
channel 6, 8, and 12, and fox.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
RVA Mag
Richmond subreddit r:rva
South Richmond News
The Richmond Free Press
The Commonwealth Times (VCU’s “independent” newspaper)
VPM.org
Exit Interview, a local blog focused on Education
RVA 5×5, a newsletter
I know there are so many other sources out there. I would love to hear what CheersRva readers read. Please let me know @CheersRVA!
the vibe:
This anonymous fellow posted some tower climbing shenanigans on Reddit. I appreciate that he waited until after the scaffolding had come down to share his experience, so as not to encourage others.
It seems like they’ve been renovating the Carillon tower forever.
Have an uplifting day RVA!
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