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The story of the death of VQR Managing Editor Kevin Morrissey two weeks ago has become a topic of great interest. The Chronicle of Higher Education today features a weighty investigative piece entitled “What Killed Kevin Morrissey?”. Author Robin Wilson repeats claims that magazine editor Ted Genoways is rarely at work, that he has [...]

Wow. I can’t even keep up with all the articles on the Justin French mess. For those of you who have not been following the sordid drama, here is the list of articles from Richmond BizSense (who broke the story),…

Wow. I can’t even keep up with all the articles on the Justin French mess. For those of you who have not been following the sordid drama, here is the list of articles from Richmond BizSense (who broke the story),…

An article has appeared in today’s Richmond BizSense describing some Carytown merchants’ opposition to a plan to put a big box retailer in the former Verizon building located at the corner of Floyd and Nansemond in Carytown. Let’s just be…

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According to this article in Richmond BizSense, local banks and other financial institutions don’t want the properties they’re taking back by foreclosure, so they are creating their own websites to try to sell these properties. Well, excuse me if I…

Attached is the synopsis of the Richmond Region Housing Market Report for the second quarter of 2010. The more detailed full report is attached here. Activity was substantially up over the second quarter of 2009, due to the federal first…

This article in today’s Business section of the Richmond Times-Dispatch shows that there is good news in the Richmond, Virginia housing market. Prices here were up 1.6% in the second quarter to an average of just over $200,000. That’s great…

The nationally recognized Positive Vibe Cafe has opened a second location in the Library of Virginia. From today’s business section of the RTD: Garth Larcen wanted for years to open a second Positive Vibe Café location. “We needed more exposure,” Larcen said about the restaurant in the Stratford Hills Shopping Center in South Richmond that [...]

OK, weird. I wrote this on July 19, and thought I’d posted it. Clearly not. So, this post is a bit stale, but I’m putting it up anyway. I’m just getting back from vacation and I’m trying to catch back…