Am thirtysomething with child, can agree with others here, good vibes. Met up with other parent friends on a babysitter night, had some beers, thought their sandwich was very tasty, enjoyed the vibes. Not at all a VCU bar.

no, I’m telling you that you were being an asshole to a student journalist, so much so that several people had to tell you to stop

So my daughter’s birthday is Saturday and mine’s on Sunday. We’re no-contact with my parents because they’ve leaned hard into the religious MAGA boomer role over the last few years. They think the best way to earn their way back into our lives is with money. Usually I just shred the checks, but decided to do this with it this year instead.

Shine Farms! They have an amazing array and pickup in Church Hill at Pizza Bones on Thursday evenings. Lots of good options depending on size, price and length.

https://shine.farm/farm-share-csa/

At least that doesn't involve trotting them out to display in a largely white neighborhood.

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I haven't used them yet, but Farm to Family/ The Farmbus delivers and their stand is just north of Church Hill.

Lived there from Spring 2014 to September 2016, when I bought a house. I moved in right when they opened. Rent was reasonable, I did pay extra for garage parking, I had one of the units on the 3rd floor w/ the share patio space. I think I barely used heat being on the top floor. It can be dead on weekend days, but its a great location for stuff to do. The only draw back was occasional increased city noise w/ all the bars around on weekend, and bucket drummers/saxophone players off in the distance. They were prompt on any maint. issues, and didn't stiff me on my deposit.

Great experience over all: 4/5 stars
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yeah idk why this guys getting downvoted, that would be HUGE, good teachers do amazing work and set the next generation up for success, but yes, I'd like more change, but, this is still huge and will help a lot of people

aren't you always telling people to charge more money?

hey, I don't make the rules, I just go along. If you can't beat em, join em.

are you telling me that reddit is full of idiots? ok

For different types of CSAs, depending on what you're focused on, some people get a meat/eggs one at one farm veggies/greens at another and baked/canned goods at another. Most producers have some type of option. I like St Stephen's market on saturdays because it's laid out like a village, parking and access are easy, it's almost all food, and they went to a lot of trouble keeping everyone safe. Booths are still more than 6ft apart.Some local CSAs available there or at the Birdhouse market on Tuesdays: Broadfork Farm, TomTen Farm, Shirefolk Farm, Crumptown Farm, Amy's Organic.

Edit to add another resource: Some of these are listed on St Stephen's weekly market vendors page: https://www.ststephensrva.org/community/farmers-market/market-vendor-list-for-saturday/

I used to live in Chicago which has an incredibly powerful teacher’s union. Teachers get paid pretty well (median salary over $80k/year in a fairly inexpensive city), but from a school quality perspective the main results were frequent long strikes that closed the schools down and staying remote-only during COVID for far longer than other school districts around the country (which obviously impacted the poorest students the most).

I have yet to see any non-biased evidence that public sector unionization results in better quality public services.

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doesn't look flat to me

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Besides, absent land rents, capital share of net income isn't even that great

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class conflict is a nice theory if you need to a distant other to blame when you have actual market power from economic classes

but for locally caused problems -low public amenities, poor schools, underperforming infrastructure, high housing costs, pockets of intractable crime are all entirely RVA's locally sourced problems...and is it really the uber-rich causing the poor performance the these things?

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take this bonkers of a story. kinda hard to blame jeff bezo's for unsafe streets when its the residents themselves that turned out to protest improving them

There’s very little evidence (I.e. non-biased scientific studies) showing that unionization has a positive impact on job performance, and there’s quite a bit of evidence that unionization has a negative impact on job performance. Though admittedly, most of the studies that are out there focus on the private sector rather than the public sector.

There is lots of evidence however that unions increase pay and improve working conditions.

So if your concern is that school principals are underpaid and have poor working conditions, then unionization is likely to help that - but only at the expense of an already-tight RPS budget.

If your concern is that RPS principals aren’t doing as good a job as they should be, then unionization is likely a step in the wrong direction.

This peach blossom across the street from me has me all swoony, but Church Hill has a nice variety of magnolia, cherry and others. Lewis Ginter is always safe bet, I'm looking forward to finding more and more. Reminder everyone, all those trees looking fluffier than a week or two ago are about to release the great pollening so anti-histamine up.

https://preview.redd.it/x7c3vczd60la1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=4bdb453281ca75d19094db70f96a4aba4e32dcb9

This cemetery is unique, created by black richmonders in the late 1800s who were segregated from white cemeteries. There’s a lot of history there, and a lot of people in this community have worked hard to uncover it, as the city has left it neglected. It would be a slap in the face to this community to pave it over for an apartment complex

Because 10 minutes prior you were decrying the practice.

While horror nights at McCormick's are usually awesome content, but it's as dead as disco for meeting people. It's usually a handful of people who either came as a small group. Also there's a movie playing, so people generally are trying to listen to it. Although, for classic scenes everyone can recreate the dialog or joke around.

yeah, no, you had several comments telling you to chill the fuck out because what you were doing was totally normal

I'm being Vincent Adultman today and doing a business. If you have a business in Chesterfield County, make sure your paperwork is postmarked by March 1st! I'll probably have one alcohol this evening to celebrate doing adult things.

Update: The county has a new Citizen Portal and I can do it all online now, yay!

given you think that's harrassment, maybe you could spend your time educating yourself so you seem less dim?

It's not a work table, it's an UppAbaby brand retail display shelf from a baby clothing store that I've been using as a coffee table. It's 10"x30"x44".

https://imgur.com/a/5LEJz9s

given that I didn’t write several comments harassing a student journalist yesterday, yeah, I feel pretty good about how I spent my time