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A Sign Of A Changing Season – VCU Tennis Bubble up
Over this past week, ‘the bubble’ went up over the VCU tennis courts.
It’s worth remembering that this block used to be part of Oregon Hill.
Photo from https://yesterdays.today/
Congratulations, Open High!
From Times Dispatch newspaper report:
U.S. News & World Report’s annual best high schools rankings were published Tuesday and featured some Rich-mond-area schools.
Richmond Public Schools’ Open High School, a small alternative school in the city’s Oregon Hill neighborhood, ranked No. 62 in the country, unchanged from last year. The school enrolls about 180 students, 31% of whom are economically disadvantaged, a rough gauge of poverty, according to state data.
Richmond’s Community High School, a small school for gifted students, ranked No. 164 in the nation, unchanged from last year. Its enrollment was at about 210 students last year, 40% of whom were deemed economically disadvantaged by the state.
Thursday Throwback: Outside The Grace Arents School
Let The Debates Begin…
Disappearing Bubble
VCU workers were preparing to dismantle the ‘bubble’ over the tennis courts.
What Is More Important? Schools, Water Utility, Or Homeless Shelter? Welcome to Richmond’s Ranked Choice Voting Day!
Hi everyone! January 23rd is traditionally recognized as Ranked Choice Voting Day!
But, hey, don’t let the General Assembly, City Council, and winter doldrums get you down. For it is I, Scott Burger, the pirate king of Oregon Hill, here to entertain you and (counterintuitively to my monarchial rule) encourage grassroots democracy with yet another exciting public RCV poll.
Given yesterday’s RPS announcement, the noteworthy recent anniversary of last year’s water crisis, and ongoing struggles for the ‘unhoused’, what is more important?
1) Fully funding our public schools
2) A reliable, working, public water utility
3) larger homeless shelters
Now, I could add as choices a sustainable environment and larger rainy (sleety? snowy) day emergency fund, but let’s not get too crazy or hopeful. Let’s keep it relatively simple. This is not a mayor’s race.
After all, we are supposed to be beginning a new City budget process…
Remember, with ranked choice voting (RCV), you are allowed to vote for more than one choice, but you need to rank them.
Also remember that the political establishment (and their corporate masters) will not allow an all-of-the-above choice as it wants large corporations and tourism to get a steady stream of taxpayer dollars in the form of tax breaks and subsidies. LIVE Nation and New Market Corporation were not going to build their new riverfront amphitheater by themselves (or were they?). Co-Star was not going to incentivize itself, now was it? Otherwise VCU might not have received their money. The corporate welfare must continue, according to our current leadership, opportunity costs, public choices, and alternatives be damned.
Remember what I said about keeping the pressure on!
Happy Ranked Choice Voting Day!
Ready? Vote:
I will try to update this post with results later, if I am not thrown into the new ICE facility in Hanover. (Remember, ICE received “only” $14 billion in funding, despite public demands to abolish it altogether. But that goes back to national priorities…)
Fruit Fundraiser for Open High School
Go to this link, www.ifundraise.com/841758, for this fundraiser, which ends December 12.
October Festivities
October is a busy month for Oregon Hill…
October 10-12, is the Richmond Folk Festival.
From the website blurb:
The Richmond Folk Festival is one of Virginia’s largest events, drawing visitors from all over the country to downtown Richmond’s historic riverfront. The Festival is a FREE three-day event that got its start as the National Council for the Traditional Arts’ National Folk Festival, held in Richmond from 2005-2007. The Richmond Folk Festival features performing groups representing a diverse array of cultural traditions on six stages.
But also, Richmond Zine Fest, a two-day event.
From website…
On day one, Friday October 10th from 12 PM – 5 PM (note: this is has been changed since the printing of the poster) is ONLY programming aka workshops, presentations, dialogues, and opportunities to learn something new. The programs are held in the basement of the library.
Day two is Saturday, October 11th from 10 AM – 4:30 PM, and this is the big vendor day that is recognizably “zine fest” to the average attendee. We take over multiple spaces on the first floor and the basement levels of the library with exhibitors that have produced zines for purchase and/or trade. Please see our section on zine fest etiquette for tips about how to engage with tablers and what is inappropriate.
Masks are required for all participants in Richmond Zine Fest.
Don’t forget that for Richmond Public Schools, October 13 is Divison-wide Professional Learning Day (Student Holiday) and October 20 is Diwali holiday and RPS are closed.
“An Evening With David Byrne – Who is the Sky tour” is at the Altria Theater on October 14th.
There is supposed to be another No Kings protest march on October 18th but details are hazy at this time. Maybe a march to or from Monroe Park.
Tedeschi Trucks Band and Little Feat are playing the corporate amphitheater on Oct. 21.
Neighborhood block party:
And, Friday, October 31st.. the 20th anniversary edition of the All the Saints Theater Company Halloween Parade through Oregon Hill.
Open High Students Demonstrate For Gun Control
Earlier today at noon, Open High School students walked out in protest of gun violence and advocated for gun control.
NBC Channel 12 covered the protest. From their report:
This was part of a nationwide movement organized by Students Demand Action. Three 11th graders: Lucy James Howlett, Kai James and Rose Woodward organized the 30-minute protest at the school.
They said while district has taken steps to make campus safer, like metal detectors and clear backpacks, it’s those very measures that remind students just how unsafe the world can be.
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There have been 44 school shootings so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, Education Week and Everytown for Gun Safety. A recent report from the CDC shows that firearms were the leading cause of death for children and teens in 2020 and 2021.“The student body is very aware of the nation’s issues, political issues,” James said.