Gray Montrose
@montroseva.bsky.social
Farmer, lawyer, make-the-world-a-better-place policy nerd
Lead reporter for the Montrose Observer, Queen of the Roo Crew
Ask me anything, I’m here for the conversation
Lead reporter for the Montrose Observer, Queen of the Roo Crew
Ask me anything, I’m here for the conversation
September 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Systemic r*cism is affirming decisions made by people who expressly considered race when they made them.
If you can’t prove somebody didn’t say in 1956 “hey, let’s put a landfill here because it’s a Black community” or a “poor community”… maybe don’t burden that community more.
If you can’t prove somebody didn’t say in 1956 “hey, let’s put a landfill here because it’s a Black community” or a “poor community”… maybe don’t burden that community more.
September 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Systemic r*cism is affirming decisions made by people who expressly considered race when they made them.
If you can’t prove somebody didn’t say in 1956 “hey, let’s put a landfill here because it’s a Black community” or a “poor community”… maybe don’t burden that community more.
If you can’t prove somebody didn’t say in 1956 “hey, let’s put a landfill here because it’s a Black community” or a “poor community”… maybe don’t burden that community more.
Heaven help you if you’re in a 🦼
September 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Heaven help you if you’re in a 🦼
A mile round trip plus three crossings of 7+7+6 lanes, two unmarked, for the *nearest* intersection. Versus trying to get across 2 + 2 with a median?
Why is it so easy to blame 🚶♀️???
Why is it so easy to blame 🚶♀️???
September 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A mile round trip plus three crossings of 7+7+6 lanes, two unmarked, for the *nearest* intersection. Versus trying to get across 2 + 2 with a median?
Why is it so easy to blame 🚶♀️???
Why is it so easy to blame 🚶♀️???
Wtf is going on with @axios.com RVA?
First last week’s unmarked advertising for Taco Bell, now Pizza Hut.
Who, oh that’s right, happen to both be Yum! brands…
@karripeifer.bsky.social yall are losing credibility.
First last week’s unmarked advertising for Taco Bell, now Pizza Hut.
Who, oh that’s right, happen to both be Yum! brands…
@karripeifer.bsky.social yall are losing credibility.
August 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Wtf is going on with @axios.com RVA?
First last week’s unmarked advertising for Taco Bell, now Pizza Hut.
Who, oh that’s right, happen to both be Yum! brands…
@karripeifer.bsky.social yall are losing credibility.
First last week’s unmarked advertising for Taco Bell, now Pizza Hut.
Who, oh that’s right, happen to both be Yum! brands…
@karripeifer.bsky.social yall are losing credibility.
This is how we incentivize absentee landlords and create a new housing crisis!
Everyone registering their “primary dwelling” in VA while living elsewhere to claim that $50k.
🙄 At least treat it like state retirement accounts, you keep what you earned.
virginiamercury.com/briefs/va-de...
Everyone registering their “primary dwelling” in VA while living elsewhere to claim that $50k.
🙄 At least treat it like state retirement accounts, you keep what you earned.
virginiamercury.com/briefs/va-de...
August 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This is how we incentivize absentee landlords and create a new housing crisis!
Everyone registering their “primary dwelling” in VA while living elsewhere to claim that $50k.
🙄 At least treat it like state retirement accounts, you keep what you earned.
virginiamercury.com/briefs/va-de...
Everyone registering their “primary dwelling” in VA while living elsewhere to claim that $50k.
🙄 At least treat it like state retirement accounts, you keep what you earned.
virginiamercury.com/briefs/va-de...
👇🏻 This is also how DEQ works:
The New Corner Store: How Vape Shops Took Over Richmond - @rvamag.bsky.social
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The New Corner Store: How Vape Shops Took Over Richmond - @rvamag.bsky.social
rvamag.com/news-headlin...
August 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
👇🏻 This is also how DEQ works:
The New Corner Store: How Vape Shops Took Over Richmond - @rvamag.bsky.social
rvamag.com/news-headlin...
The New Corner Store: How Vape Shops Took Over Richmond - @rvamag.bsky.social
rvamag.com/news-headlin...
What the heck @axios.com @karripeifer.bsky.social
We have such an amazing food culture in #RVA and all you want to talk about is Taco Bell?
There’s a damn reason we don’t have more fast food chains in the city and please go away with your unmarked sponsored content.
We have such an amazing food culture in #RVA and all you want to talk about is Taco Bell?
There’s a damn reason we don’t have more fast food chains in the city and please go away with your unmarked sponsored content.
August 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
What the heck @axios.com @karripeifer.bsky.social
We have such an amazing food culture in #RVA and all you want to talk about is Taco Bell?
There’s a damn reason we don’t have more fast food chains in the city and please go away with your unmarked sponsored content.
We have such an amazing food culture in #RVA and all you want to talk about is Taco Bell?
There’s a damn reason we don’t have more fast food chains in the city and please go away with your unmarked sponsored content.
To the 243 people in Henrico who made a different choice, let’s talk about how this 💩 does not happen with one Graham Sojourner Montrose as your Henrico Circuit Court Clerk.
“Masks? No sir. No ID? Also no.
Disrupting proceedings? Get 🌈 “
“Masks? No sir. No ID? Also no.
Disrupting proceedings? Get 🌈 “
July 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
To the 243 people in Henrico who made a different choice, let’s talk about how this 💩 does not happen with one Graham Sojourner Montrose as your Henrico Circuit Court Clerk.
“Masks? No sir. No ID? Also no.
Disrupting proceedings? Get 🌈 “
“Masks? No sir. No ID? Also no.
Disrupting proceedings? Get 🌈 “
3. Data centers with no parking lots and no diesel generator yards.
How charming! And magical!
I agree on no parking lots since they don’t employ hardly anyone, but the generator yards are as big as the buildings.
And so many mature trees!
How charming! And magical!
I agree on no parking lots since they don’t employ hardly anyone, but the generator yards are as big as the buildings.
And so many mature trees!
July 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
3. Data centers with no parking lots and no diesel generator yards.
How charming! And magical!
I agree on no parking lots since they don’t employ hardly anyone, but the generator yards are as big as the buildings.
And so many mature trees!
How charming! And magical!
I agree on no parking lots since they don’t employ hardly anyone, but the generator yards are as big as the buildings.
And so many mature trees!
2. Route 33, a lovely shaded 1930s style boulevard.
No sidewalks hahaha, and lanes only ten feet wide. With roundabouts! Not stoplights!
No sidewalks hahaha, and lanes only ten feet wide. With roundabouts! Not stoplights!
July 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
2. Route 33, a lovely shaded 1930s style boulevard.
No sidewalks hahaha, and lanes only ten feet wide. With roundabouts! Not stoplights!
No sidewalks hahaha, and lanes only ten feet wide. With roundabouts! Not stoplights!
This is why consultants have a special circle—
1. Mature trees everywhere!
These trees will all be bulldozed for the site to be graded, not a hope there will be mature trees left on the site. At all. Not a 🍆 chance.
1. Mature trees everywhere!
These trees will all be bulldozed for the site to be graded, not a hope there will be mature trees left on the site. At all. Not a 🍆 chance.
July 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This is why consultants have a special circle—
1. Mature trees everywhere!
These trees will all be bulldozed for the site to be graded, not a hope there will be mature trees left on the site. At all. Not a 🍆 chance.
1. Mature trees everywhere!
These trees will all be bulldozed for the site to be graded, not a hope there will be mature trees left on the site. At all. Not a 🍆 chance.
And let’s do the damn math on how much of this is a subsidy to industry:
$90k per house, minus 6% of total for Realtors’ fees. Say $250k average total.
Henrico is putting $15k per house into Realtors’ pockets, $75k into developers’ pockets.
Again, Nelson’s biggest donors are?
$90k per house, minus 6% of total for Realtors’ fees. Say $250k average total.
Henrico is putting $15k per house into Realtors’ pockets, $75k into developers’ pockets.
Again, Nelson’s biggest donors are?
July 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
And let’s do the damn math on how much of this is a subsidy to industry:
$90k per house, minus 6% of total for Realtors’ fees. Say $250k average total.
Henrico is putting $15k per house into Realtors’ pockets, $75k into developers’ pockets.
Again, Nelson’s biggest donors are?
$90k per house, minus 6% of total for Realtors’ fees. Say $250k average total.
Henrico is putting $15k per house into Realtors’ pockets, $75k into developers’ pockets.
Again, Nelson’s biggest donors are?
They made up the numbers!!! I checked! JFC.
July 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
They made up the numbers!!! I checked! JFC.
Omg no! It’s worse!!
The numbers are made up by the Realtors!!!!
The numbers are made up by the Realtors!!!!
July 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Omg no! It’s worse!!
The numbers are made up by the Realtors!!!!
The numbers are made up by the Realtors!!!!
Besides the fact that a legislator is getting cozy with a guy who makes money off his signature issue…
This is how you know their numbers are crazy
(Likely skewed because NoVA, which is the whole problem. NoVA isn’t VA.)
Column: Virginia's housing market is worse than you think @richmond.com
This is how you know their numbers are crazy
(Likely skewed because NoVA, which is the whole problem. NoVA isn’t VA.)
Column: Virginia's housing market is worse than you think @richmond.com
July 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Besides the fact that a legislator is getting cozy with a guy who makes money off his signature issue…
This is how you know their numbers are crazy
(Likely skewed because NoVA, which is the whole problem. NoVA isn’t VA.)
Column: Virginia's housing market is worse than you think @richmond.com
This is how you know their numbers are crazy
(Likely skewed because NoVA, which is the whole problem. NoVA isn’t VA.)
Column: Virginia's housing market is worse than you think @richmond.com
Fourth of July air quality impacts 🎇
July 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Fourth of July air quality impacts 🎇
Hey, @bencasselman.bsky.social — about those factories.
What it incentivizes is abandoning old factories.
A factory isn’t shiny any more? Don’t pay for renovations, up stakes and move somewhere they’ll beg to give you tax credits.
Screw the workers and the communities, there are always more.
What it incentivizes is abandoning old factories.
A factory isn’t shiny any more? Don’t pay for renovations, up stakes and move somewhere they’ll beg to give you tax credits.
Screw the workers and the communities, there are always more.
June 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Hey, @bencasselman.bsky.social — about those factories.
What it incentivizes is abandoning old factories.
A factory isn’t shiny any more? Don’t pay for renovations, up stakes and move somewhere they’ll beg to give you tax credits.
Screw the workers and the communities, there are always more.
What it incentivizes is abandoning old factories.
A factory isn’t shiny any more? Don’t pay for renovations, up stakes and move somewhere they’ll beg to give you tax credits.
Screw the workers and the communities, there are always more.
The West End gets pretty shared use paths and shade and hand-wringing about “we must get it right, bridges last for decades!”
The East End gets another 1960s bridge, pedestrian deaths, heat and air pollution. For the next 75-100 years.
But think of the cars?
The East End gets another 1960s bridge, pedestrian deaths, heat and air pollution. For the next 75-100 years.
But think of the cars?
June 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The West End gets pretty shared use paths and shade and hand-wringing about “we must get it right, bridges last for decades!”
The East End gets another 1960s bridge, pedestrian deaths, heat and air pollution. For the next 75-100 years.
But think of the cars?
The East End gets another 1960s bridge, pedestrian deaths, heat and air pollution. For the next 75-100 years.
But think of the cars?
Hey @vadot.bsky.social what do you mean you had a single public meeting about this miles away at the (Henrico) Varina library because… this doesn’t affect RVA?
It’s one of five major connections into the City from the east.
Oh, right. The East. @vpm.org
It’s one of five major connections into the City from the east.
Oh, right. The East. @vpm.org
June 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Hey @vadot.bsky.social what do you mean you had a single public meeting about this miles away at the (Henrico) Varina library because… this doesn’t affect RVA?
It’s one of five major connections into the City from the east.
Oh, right. The East. @vpm.org
It’s one of five major connections into the City from the east.
Oh, right. The East. @vpm.org
Oh, and about those neighborhoods— can we get some more trees? Anything to block the pollution?
Nope. Replacement in kind.
Nope. Replacement in kind.
June 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Oh, and about those neighborhoods— can we get some more trees? Anything to block the pollution?
Nope. Replacement in kind.
Nope. Replacement in kind.
What’s the problem?
It’s a replacement in kind. An exact copy.
Of a desperately unsafe, baking hot, 1960s design that is entirely car-oriented.
Even though all the neighborhoods around it are dependent on foot, bus, and sometimes bike travel. 🤷♀️
It’s a replacement in kind. An exact copy.
Of a desperately unsafe, baking hot, 1960s design that is entirely car-oriented.
Even though all the neighborhoods around it are dependent on foot, bus, and sometimes bike travel. 🤷♀️
June 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
What’s the problem?
It’s a replacement in kind. An exact copy.
Of a desperately unsafe, baking hot, 1960s design that is entirely car-oriented.
Even though all the neighborhoods around it are dependent on foot, bus, and sometimes bike travel. 🤷♀️
It’s a replacement in kind. An exact copy.
Of a desperately unsafe, baking hot, 1960s design that is entirely car-oriented.
Even though all the neighborhoods around it are dependent on foot, bus, and sometimes bike travel. 🤷♀️
June 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
June 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
We should discuss how @vapride.bsky.social Program Director James Millner is just… aspirational in their sartorial excellence.
Those colors! That fit! The break in the trouser fall! The shoes! Swoon.
Those colors! That fit! The break in the trouser fall! The shoes! Swoon.
May 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
We should discuss how @vapride.bsky.social Program Director James Millner is just… aspirational in their sartorial excellence.
Those colors! That fit! The break in the trouser fall! The shoes! Swoon.
Those colors! That fit! The break in the trouser fall! The shoes! Swoon.