City Begins First Step of Dead Tree Cleanup On Hull Street News by Michael C. Hild - July 26, 201720 I was happy to see City workers trimming the tree shoots sprouting from all the dead crepe myrtles on Hull Street this evening. As we reported in our prior article City Workers Hack & Kill Trees On Hull Street, city workers maimed and killed all the mature crepe myrtles on Hull
City Workers Hack & Kill Trees on Hull Street News by Michael C. Hild - July 23, 2017July 23, 201736 For those of you that drive down Hull Street, this is going to be old news. Last year when the mature crepe myrtles were in full bloom, City of Richmond workers came on trucks with chainsaws and cut all the blooms off the trees. I was upset while I watched them
CBS 6 News: “Neighbors irate ‘eyesore’ school costs taxpayers $26K a year to maintain” Ankle Biter by Michael C. Hild - May 7, 2017May 8, 201714 CBS 6 News Problem Solvers just did a story entitled "Neighbors irate ‘eyesore’ school costs taxpayers $26K a year to maintain" about the old abandoned and vacant Oak Grove Elementary school owned by the City of Richmond's Public Schools system. Ironically this is the same vacant school building that the privately run
City Council Rubber Stamps City’s Half Million Dollar Giveaway Ankle Biter by Michael C. Hild - June 29, 2016June 29, 201645 So Mayor Jones and City Council just gave away 14 tax delinquent, blighted properties it recently seized as reported by The Richmond Times-Dispatch. Break out the noisemakers and party balloons, right? Way to go City, fix those blighted properties!!! Well actually...this is just the latest example of another fraud scheme by the City that cost
Manchester’s Got Asphalt Y’all!!! News by Michael C. Hild - June 22, 201638 The asphalt Gods are smiling on Manchester! After years of neglect, Bainbridge, Porter, and Perry Streets have benefitted from some badly needed paving by the City of Richmond. It could not have come at a better time. Recently, we have seen pothole fever erupt in Manchester. Not too long ago John Gregory with Fountainhead
Manchester Neighborhood Plan Implementation Grade: F Ankle Biter by Michael C. Hild - June 12, 2016June 12, 201662 The City of Richmond adopted a Neighborhood Plan for Old Manchester in 1996 as part of the City's Master Plan. The strategic plan was intended to be a blueprint for the City that would set forth the revitalization of Manchester, yet be flexible enough to allow adaptation as the area developed. The plan explicitly called
City Shafts Taxpayers Again by Giving Away City Owned Property to Friends and Family Ankle Biter by Michael C. Hild - June 2, 2016June 3, 2016106 In other cities corrupt acts by elected officials and their staff is called graft, larceny, embezzlement, fraud, or cronyism. And these folks go to jail for this type of behavior. In Richmond however, the City bureaucracy has grown so emboldened they don't even blush anymore when committing the most egregious acts.
Announcing The 2016 Storm Drain Art Project Dish by Design by Laura Dyer Hild - April 30, 2016April 30, 201656 CALLING ALL ARTISTS: Anyone want to paint a storm drain? If so, the City of Richmond's RVA H2O program is sponsoring an initiative to allow you to submit your original ideas, and if selected, you will be able to paint your art on a storm drain. THE DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS: MONDAY, MAY 30, AT
RVA Pothole Art: Osprey Catching Dinner in Prolific Manchester Potholes News by Michael C. Hild - April 16, 2016April 16, 2016109 Well, our RVA Pothole Art campaign is off to a good start. It looks like even the James River's abundant osprey and shad are up to the challenge. Remember Manchester and Richmond creatives, tag your Instagram and Facebook pictures with #rvapotholeart so we can keep dibs on your creativity. ?
Pothole Art-Gone to Pot? Dish by Design by Laura Dyer Hild - April 15, 2016April 15, 201682 Unless you drive a hovercraft to work, you know Richmond has a major pothole problem. And if you live or work in Manchester, you experience firsthand some of the worst road maintenance the City has to offer. I know personally I've driven into a hole that felt like I was making my
Some Dam Good News: Dam Walk Progress! News by Michael C. Hild - January 8, 2016January 28, 201633 So shortly after our So Who Else Is Tired Of Waiting To Go For A Dam Walk?!?! post, the city's Mark Olinger pointed out that while work has not begun on the more travelled and visible northern section of the T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge (otherwise referred to as the Dam Walk), work
So who else is tired of waiting to go for a Dam Walk?!?! News by Michael C. Hild - January 7, 2016January 28, 201635 What's a guy have to do around here to go for a Dam Walk? For all the talk of building a walkway that connects Brown's Island to Manchester going all the way back to 2008, and loudly trumpeted that it would be completed before the 2015 UCI races, I sure don't see