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Steven L. Johnson
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Pretty view this morning on the CHO airport webcam
Blue and yellow clouds and sky above mountain range being illuminated by rising sun with airport runway and an airplane visible in foreground
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Oh, my. It’s really cold out there this morning
Dark dawn sky with silhouettes of leafless trees
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Good night from Cville. Get some rest, there much to do ahead!
Dark sky with gothic orange sunset and bare tree silhouette
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Ban Leaf Blowers
November 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Mark you calendar for the Livable Cville drop-in social at Brazos Tacos this Thursday 13 November from 5-7+ pm. All are welcome, wether it's your first time or umpteenth time
Livable Cville Meetup! at IX Art Park Brazos Tacos, Thursday 13 November from 5-7 pm. All are welcome
November 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Good morning from Cville! Enjoy this warm Fall day
Orange leafs against a blue sky Orange and green leafs Orange leafs against a blue sky Orange leafs against a blue sky
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Dedicating 95% of the county to land and only allowing dense housing in 5% of the county is a humanitarian, environmental, and economic tragedy. It's no wonder that so many people here are struggling to get by
Map of blue zones totally 5% of the land mass of Albemarle County. Charlottesville is in the middle of the county.
November 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Good morning from Cville, where the moon made a bright morning appearance. May your day be full of delight
full moon with a blue sky around it
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Read the newsletter and get our Nov drop-in social on your calendar, too!
Livable Cville Meetup! THursday, Nov 13, 5-7 pm, Brazos Tacos, IX Art Park, 923 2nd Street SE
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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not to mention, this is what I remember my nearby McDonald's menu looking like in the 70s

source: www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/...
Photo of McDonald's menu from 1970s showing a quarter pounder with chees for .70 and small drinks for .15
November 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Meanwhile, in my Cville precinct in the Fifeville neighborhood
Buford precinct results with Spanberger at 89.99% and Earle-Sears at 9.52%
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Cville school board results: congrats to Zy Bryant for joining re-elected incumbents Lisa Larson-Torres and Emily Dooley
School board results broken down by vote type
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Partially reported I take to mean only same day, no provisional nor early voting
precinct reporting statuses show a mix of Not Reported and Partially Reported
November 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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First time candidate Fleischer ahead of Mayor Wade 50.3% vs. 47.9% in a race of 2 candidates for 2 spots (with 1.9% for write-in)
November 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Update. Order Dooley, Bryant, and Larson-Torres with Cooper the odd-one-out (by and increasing %)
Dooley, Bryant, and Larson-Torres ahead of Cooper
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Pattern holding
Bryant, Dooley, and Larson-Torres ahead of Cooper
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Trailblazer precinct only
election results showing dooley, bryant, and larson-torres (ahead of cooper
November 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Charlottesville middle school gym lit up from inside with no lights outside
November 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Good Fall morning from Cville! Still enjoying Fall colors here on #UVa grounds
View out of my office window with students walking by and trees with red and yellow leaves further in the distances and a dramatic cloudy sky
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Yet another post by @pkrugman.bsky.social that's well worth taking the time to read. This section gives a good idea of its scope (and clarity)
In the past it would have been unthinkable to display political propaganda, let alone grotesquely dishonest propaganda, on government data sites. But we’re in a new world. We’ll just have to see how all this plays politically. But it’s clear that Republicans messed up badly on the implementation of Project 2025. Immense cruelty was always part of the plan, but policy wasn’t supposed to get this cruel, this soon. So what went wrong? I’d attribute it to a combination of policy ignorance, visceral hatred of doing anything that helps people in need, and the Epstein files. (Seriously.)
October 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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And, our time zones are drawn incorrectly... we'd be better off with 2x as many and having them designated in alignment with sunlight, not with current manner
map showing sunrise times go in lines from NE to SW more than a strict N to S
October 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Zuki says whippets for the win!
black and white whippet sitting upright on a couch wearing a handsome red winter coat
October 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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The highlighted paragraph is encouraging. The third paragraph in the screenshot... not so much.
Among the terms reached in the past week, the University of Virginia would not pay a financial penalty nor submit to a direct monitoring arrangement, according to three people briefed on the negotiations. The university would be required to continue to take steps to come into compliance with the administration’s expansive interpretation of a 2023 Supreme Court decision that ended explicit consideration of race in admissions to higher education, according to three people briefed on negotiations. Other details in the potential deal, hashed out in secret negotiations in recent weeks by Justice Department and school officials and lawyers, were unclear.
October 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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A happy Spooktober morning to you from Cville!
Early morning sky with crescent moon barely visible with a planet next to it. Power lines and a house are visible above and orange light extends across horizon above trees.
October 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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I appreciate the ratio'ing
screen shot of thread showing a comment with 5 times as many likes for a comment saying "it's mostly because you're just wrong" to the original post
October 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM