Pro-democracy. Anti-corruption.
Virginia, USA
Joined December 2016
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Activate Virginia retweeted
"Is the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority's private development arm subject to public oversight by citizens and city officials?
Last year, RRHA CEO Steven Nesmith answered that question with an explicit yes. This year...he's changed his mind."
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Activate Virginia retweeted
"Developers on Tuesday withdrew their application to rezone land in James City County for hundreds of homes, commercial space and an open-air museum of 42 busts of American presidents once at York County’s Presidents Park."
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Activate Virginia retweeted
"Nelson County will no longer use Flock Safety's Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) cameras, effective immediately.
The announcement came on Tuesday, Oct. 13, following a town hall meeting last Thursday."
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Activate Virginia retweeted
"All Flock cameras on public property in Arlington have been removed, but that doesn’t mean the technology is gone entirely, county staff say."
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Activate Virginia retweeted
"Richmond Mayor Danny Avula on Tuesday wouldn’t rule out signing a contract with a new automatic license plate reader vendor once the city’s deal with Flock Safety ends next July."
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Activate Virginia retweeted
"We've seen tremendous improvement in overall river health, but concerning indicators in the lower James, notably poor water clarity and underwater grass scores," James River Association advocacy director Jamie Brunkow tells Axios.
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Activate Virginia retweeted
"Leaders at Richmond's Department of Public Utilities (DPU) raised "urgent" concerns amid the flawed rollout of its new billing system but seemingly struggled to get help from a vendor, according to internal communications reviewed by CBS 6."
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Activate Virginia retweeted
"In this case, the publication of this video helps our community better understand a high-profile tragedy, information that should motivate us to continue pushing for reforms that can help keep our children, educators and school staff safer."
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Activate Virginia retweeted
“It has to do with the campus that is being proposed and the behavior of the data center when it comes to a moment where they want to locate somewhere,” Ferreira said. “So for me, it’s always about transparency before the local approval.”
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Activate Virginia retweeted
"Pittsylvania County’s Berry Hill megasite will eventually have 21 data center buildings, built in phases over 15 years, according to permits filed by Stack Infrastructure."
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"Loudoun has 233 data centers, with 100 more on the way, and there are hundreds of others across the state. Today, from the data center capital of the world, we say enough is enough,” Mummert said.
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Activate Virginia retweeted
I think the fact that Marissa Mayer would voluntarily disclose this to a reporter is a pretty good demonstration of how deeply the culture of Silicon Valley has diverged from the rest of humanity
"The political fighting reflects the outsized attention the criminal case drew and the high stakes of the congressional race, in which Taylor is trying to flip a seat long held by Wittman."
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"Two powerful voices, Gov. Abigail Spanberger and the internal watchdog of the PJM regional grid, say NextEra Energy’s proposed takeover of Dominion Energy is a bad deal."
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"The city’s relationship with Flock may be coming to an end in June, but that doesn’t necessarily spell the end of automatic license plate readers in Richmond."
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Activate Virginia retweeted
Last week @SenLouiseLucas hyped meetings on school funding and the #datacenter tax break she wants nixed. #valeg
2 days later charges were unsealed against here.
Tomorrow AM those committee meetings happen and I’ll be there 🤙
Activate Virginia retweeted
American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.
"Gov. Abigail Spanberger on Monday called on the State Corporation Commission to reject Dominion’s proposed $67 billion merger with Florida-based NextEra, absent additional conditions that would sweeten the deal."
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