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"With the city and county continuing to explore purchasing the Denton building in downtown Harrisonburg, some City Council members and county supervisors said they didn’t have much information on the potential deal."
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GRTC is reviewing its crash records after a spokeswoman said incorrectly that a fatal crash this month was the first time a Pulse bus had struck or injured a pedestrian. The morning after a Pulse bus hit and killed a pedestrian on West Broad Street near Virginia Commonwealth University’s Siegel Center on Oct. 8, GRTC spokeswoman Carrie Rose Pace told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that there had not been any previous incidents in which one of the new rapid-transit buses struck or injured a pedestrian. A Richmond police spokesman, however, later verified a tip that The Times-Dispatch received Oct. 10 that included details from a police report about a Pulse bus hitting a VCU student in November as she crossed Broad Street, just a few blocks from where Alice E. Woodson, 32, died two weeks ago. In an interview Wednesday evening, GRTC CEO Julie Timm said she was not aware of any other incidents involving a Pulse bus hitting a pedestrian. Timm said a request for records of all GRTC bus crashes in the past year is still being processed. The Times-Dispatch submitted the request Oct. 9.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
With the city and county continuing to explore purchasing the Denton building in downtown Harrisonburg, some City Council members and county supervisors said they didn’t have much information on the potential deal. City Councilman Sal Romero said he first heard about the potential purchase at a Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance meeting several weeks ago. “Obviously, residents want to know,” Romero said. “I have had several residents contact me about it.” Romero said he has not received a briefing from the city manager or other city staff about the deal. In interviews on Wednesday, Deanna Reed, the mayor of Harrisonburg, and Pablo Cuevas, the supervisor for District 1, both said they have not heard much about the deal. The Daily News-Record filed a Freedom of Information Act request for emails about the deal, but was denied by both the city and county under a provision that excludes governments from having to release information about ongoing land acquisition deals. Harrisonburg City Council members Richard Baugh and Chris Jones and Rockingham County Supervisors Michael Breeden, Rick Chandler and Bill Kyger did not return phone calls on Wednesday.
The Daily News Record
Lawyers for Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. have threatened in a cease-and-desist letter to sue the author of an explosive report alleging misconduct by Falwell, calling the journalist’s claims “false and defamatory.” The letter, a copy of which was obtained by The News & Advance after it was delivered Tuesday, is the clearest sign yet Falwell intends to wage a legal battle over what he has previously called an attempted coup to oust him as university president. In a statement, Falwell said his lawyers are conducting a broad investigation into former Liberty officials and board members who may have spoken to or provided internal records to journalists. Last month, Politico Magazine published a story alleging Falwell leveraged the university’s business interest to enrich himself, family members and friends. The story — which carried the headline, “Someone’s gotta tell the freakin’ truth: Jerry Falwell’s aides break their silence” — included internal university emails obtained by Politico and cited unnamed sources.
The News & Advance
Justin Rhyne [no relation that I know of] was barreling down the interstate, sitting in the back of a county ambulance with a patient on his way to Augusta Health. Suddenly, he heard a loud bang. The ambulance jerked to the left. Driver Aaron Bryant wrestled back control of the wheel, forcing the ambulance back into the right lane. He maneuvered the rig safely onto the shoulder of the interstate, finally coming to a halt. had blown out without warning, according to memos written by Bryant and Rhyne after the Sept. 12 incident. All as a patient was being transported. We took a look at emails and memos to get the details.
News Leader
At the National Association of State Chief Information Officers annual conference last week in Nashville, Tenn., the editors of our sister site Government Technology caught up with Virginia Chief Information Officer Nelson Moe to talk about the state's path forward in the wake of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee that raised several concerns about the Virginia Information Technology Agency.
Governing
A candidate for state Senate in Chesapeake and Suffolk says despite what she’d previously told the newspaper, she’s still running for the seat. Rebecca Raveson, the Democrat challenging Republican Sen. John Cosgrove in the 14th Senate District this November, told The Virginian-Pilot in an email Oct. 15 she was withdrawing from the race after raising objections to the paper publishing her age.
The Virginian-Pilot
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"The DA's office argued that providing summaries of the requested records, but not the records themselves, was in compliance with state law."