Jeremy McPike, Elizabeth Guzman and Gretchen Bulova are all employed by the City of Alexandria while also serving in the Virginia General Assembly. While this type of simultaneous employment is not prohibited, it is highly unusual. No other municipality in Virginia can claim to have three of its civil servants counted among the ranks of Virginia’s General Assembly. In fact, no other municipality in Virginia has more than one public employee in the General Assembly. While Virginia has a long history of including civil servants as a vital part of its legislative body, these Alexandria bureaucrats aren’t your average public employee: they are the directors and top administrators for some of the biggest departments in the city government. … As City Manager Jim Parajon explained in an interview with the Alexandria Journalism Project, the key to coordinating dual employment for these three city employees has been through these detailed and closely monitored signed memorandums of agreement. … These agreements specifically outline prohibitions regarding political activity and campaigning at work, or using any City of Alexandria resources during political activities. Likewise, the agreements highlight the need to avoid the appearance of any conflicts of interest.

Invoices and receipts obtained by the Times-Dispatch show Henrico County officials spent $34,900.24 on this year’s InterCity Visit: a group fact-finding trip to Phoenix that included hundreds of local officials, corporate executives and community leaders from across central Virginia. The InterCity Visits, organized by Richmond’s chamber of commerce, offer participants the opportunity to “break ground when it comes to creating an environment where the Richmond region’s leaders can engage in meaningful dialogue and generate innovative ideas from peer cities,” according to the event’s webpage. The sum for Henrico officials included event registration ($3,950 per attendee), airfare, ground transportation, food and parking for seven county officials.

Several months before taking medical leave, Albemarle County’s police chief drafted an official response to an internal employee survey that found declining morale, allegations of poor communication and widespread concerns about leadership within the department. In the September 2025 memo, which The Daily Progress obtained Monday after reporting on the survey, Police Chief Sean Reeves acknowledged several recurring complaints while downplaying some of the harshest criticisms as coming from a minority of employees. “While the tone was more negative than positive, many of the most inflammatory comments likely originated from a small number of individuals,” Reeves wrote to three administrators in the county government. “Less than one-third took the survey,” Reeves told The Daily Progress after beginning his medical leave and directing further questions to a county spokeswoman. “They were making some personal attacks.” Still, Reeves’ own memo acknowledged significant dissatisfaction among respondents. Among sworn officers, about 60% of respondents raised concerns about leadership transparency and favoritism, about half reported low morale or fear of retaliation, and about 40% cited poor communication and lack of follow-up.

More details are coming to light about the real estate dispute at the center of a heated exchange between Flying Squirrels owners and the developer leading the Diamond District that’s now the subject of a federal defamation lawsuit. Emails obtained by Richmond BizSense through a Freedom of Information Act request to the city show that Navigators Baseball, the ballclub’s ownership group led by managing partners Lou DiBella and Larry Botel, offered to buy the disputed retail parcel beside the entrance to CarMax Park for $1.75 million last November. Two weeks earlier, Jason Guillot, the Thalhimer Realty Partners principal who’s leading development team Diamond District Partners, had told Botel that DDP would need an offer in excess of $3 million before it would consider selling the roughly half-acre parcel.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has filed dozens of lawsuits against the federal government, priding himself on his ability to fight and win cases against the Trump Administration, but he has yet to answer questions about the costs of those lawsuits to taxpayers. His office publishes a partial list of cases but otherwise keeps the full list behind a $331 paywall. While the partial list highlights “the total amount of federal funds successfully defended” by Weiser’s lawsuits, it doesn’t tell taxpayers the cost of pursuing the lawsuits. It also doesn’t show whether taxpayers paid outside firms to do any of the work.

The first few pages of Idaho’s original state Constitution are tattered. Red ink has bled through — a consequence of state archivists deciding to laminate the first few pages in the ‘70s. But even though the state’s foundational legal document is showing wear, it’s available for the public to see — like thousands of other state government records and donated records that the Idaho State Historical Society houses. As the state shifts away from aging storage facilities elsewhere in Boise, the State Historical Society is building an expanded 50,000-square-foot storage facility at its headquarters in Boise near the Old Idaho Penitentiary, a prison that operated during Idaho’s territorial days and is now open to the public for tours. That new facility, set to be finished in December, will house physical artifacts and tens of thousands of feet of physical records that the agency houses for other state agencies.

On one hand, there’s is Jordon Hudson. The adult cheerleader, Bill Belichick’s muse, or whatever you want to call her, firing off Freedom of Information Act requests to the employer of her boyfriend/artist/biggest fan. Or whatever we’re calling Beli these days. Then there’s the 33rd Team, Belichick’s master plan to transition North Carolina from fall Saturdays afterthought to the top of the college football mountain. Now, I may be oversimplifying things here, but one is a car wreck waiting to happen. And the other is along for the ride. Does it really matter who’s who? … Hudson wants call logs and voicemails, text messages, iMessages, WhatsApp messages, documents, Asana Memos, Instagram direct messages, Twitter (X) messages, Zoom meetings (scheduled, fulfilled, canceled) and emails (including all attachments) between Jan. 29, 2025, and May 9, 2026, that include the words “banned” or “ban.” Among other things.