There was that hook article many, many moons ago titled “Mayorsville: Here, everybody's a mayor.” Sometimes I think of Charlottesville as “lawyersville” or “landlordsville.” There are so many lawyers and landlords here!
Allison Wrabel
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City woman. Opinions mine. Enthusiastic about Cleveland sports. #YRICD. Peaked in middle school. Last name rhymes with table. #MIZ CLE-COU-CHO
One of my hot takes: we should require everyone to work in customer-facing restaurant or retail jobs for at least six months at age 18 and again at age 45.
I would like both teams to lose. I will also accept a tie.
Taylor Swift bought a house in Cleveland (burbs but close enough) and now has a song called Cleveland!? It’s time… Time for her to buy the Browns.
1. This is the cutest thing ever 2. I’ve met the 2 mayors of my hometown who’ve served in my lifetime (lol crazy). The first one served for 25 years then died in 2003 and the other has served since. 3. The current mayor in Charlottesville has no idea who I am (maybe he would recognize my name).
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last mo.Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
“Allison, why do you have so many pre-saved alarm possibilities on your phone?” Well, because apparently my phone’s auto setting for new alarms is no sound, and then when I set new alarms I don’t notice they have no sound and I oversleep for appointments!
The fact that this is probably one of the coldest summers in Charlottesville I’ll have for the rest of my life is fuckibg insane. I’m just going to be a sweaty mess always. Please do not judge how I look or smell, I’m just trying my best.
I’ve slept in windowless bedrooms for 7 out of the last 11 years, and lots of the responses here are wild to me. In fact, my current building wouldn’t be possible for residential without having windowless bedrooms. And it was built in the 90s!
Patrick Siegman@siegman.biz · 2mo agoWhat share of architecture programs require students to pass an economics class to graduate? I ask because this story profiles the architect who just persuaded the ICC to ban windowless bedrooms in its model building code. It offers zero consideration of how this will affect building costs or rents
Well looks like I’m going to save a lot of money this season because I refuse to watch while he’s playing.
Ian Rapoport@rapsheet.bsky.social · 2mo agoSources: The Browns are naming Deshaun Watson as their starting QB for Week 1. The favorite going into camp. Now the starter, officially.
This is how I learned my grandparents lived across the street from a data center for more than 10 years 😅
First Wordle Problems@fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 2mo agoYEP. Saw this earlier on Normie Facebook.
Well, at least my anxiety around tornado warnings is long gone and I don’t throw up immediately during them anymore 😅
Well charlottesville didn’t block all of fourth street off today, they just did whatever this is, so people keep driving down it not knowing it’s closed.
It’s actually too bad most local media outlets think routine meeting coverage is boring because you could have answers to things like this! In Charlottesville and Albemarle, the school boards discuss and vote on calendars, usually annually, at their meetings that no reporters attend nowadays.
johnedwinmason@johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 3mo agoSchool should not begin before Labor Day. This used to be standard practice. A universally understood truth. What happened?
Robert Pattinson is ruined for me from the twilight series — he’ll always be Edward Cullen. But maybe it’s only when he’s trying to be serious, because I didn’t feel this way about him in Mickey 17!
It’s kind of wild how many wedding “venues” in this area are basically just a tent!
“Plenty more to come from New York New Jersey” lololololol (It’s actually just New Jersey)
When we wrote this story 10 years ago, I joked I’d die if I had to write a story for the 50th. Jokes on me because I got pushed out by an unreasonable editor 4 years ago (and they killed my linked byline), but I’m still around for the 50th 😅 dailyprogress.com/news/local/a...
At 40, Downtown Mall has only gotten better with age
After early struggles, the area became an anomalous success.
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New Fiscal Year, New Me! I’ve tried not to talk a lot about my soon-to-be-former job on social media, as I didn’t want to be mistaken as speaking for it, but my last day with the county is July 7! It’s also very weird to leave your job in the summer when so many people are out of the office.
Had to teach the interns about Mary Kate and Ashley today since one of them is pulling an all-nighter tonight and after finding out I immediately broke out in song and they looked at me like I was insane.
This week I saw disclosure day and sheep detective and I would only recommend one of them.
Me when a new york team wins a sports championship
Michael Che's Sarcastic 'Yaaay' on SNL
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@everypermit.cvilledata.org · 5mo agoPL-26-0092: Site Plan/Final Site Plan - Major @ 916 PRESTON AVE Number of affordable dwelling units: 28 Description of Work: THIS PROJECT INCLUDES DEMOLITION OF TWO EXISTING B... Type: Residential ... https://permits.charlottesville.gov/portal/PermitInfo/Index?caObjectId=51978