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Charlottesville Community Engagement

Town Crier Productions

Regular updates of what"s happening in local and regional government in and around Charlottesville, Virginia from an award-winning journalist with nearly thirty years of experience. communityengagement.substack.com

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Podcast for April 25, 2025: Affordable housing in...

Charlottesville Community Engagement ·

2025/04/25

Time again now to return to the imaginary airwaves with a podcast edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement. Should these sonic versions also contain a historic fact in order to signify something that is otherwise irrelevant to the information you are about to receive? Do you need to know that on this day eighty years ago, the founding negotiations began for the United Nations at a conference in San Francisco? That’s one of many things to know about April 25. I’m Sean Tubbs, and there is no

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Podcast for April 18, 2025: Two stories on...

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2025/04/18

CCE-850ALast week I asked listeners of the podcast to let me know if they were tuning in, and sure enough, several of you did reach out! So, perhaps this Friday edition of the newsletter going out as a podcast will continue. Today’s edition doesn’t have any new information but instead is an audio summary of some of what has been going on with voices from some of the decision-makers.I’m Sean Tubbs, and this one’s a bit of a puzzle to put together. In the print edition below you’ll see new versions of

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Podcast for April 11, 2025: A look ahead to upcoming...

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2025/04/11

The regular cycle for Charlottesville Community Engagement begins and ends with a sonic version that collects stories from the past week and presents them in audible form. The information gathering for this newsletter mostly takes place by recording audio of government meetings in the Thomas Jefferson Planning District. As I write each story, I clip out the audio the way I might have done if I had continued to pursue a career in public radio. There is a satisfaction to be able to share this with

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31:29

Podcast for April 4, 2025: Seven stories from this...

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2025/04/04

If you read yesterday’s edition of the Charlottesville Community Engagement newsletter and really liked it, why not take a listen to today’s? For some reason, Fridays are for audio production for both a podcast version and a version that will air on WTJU tomorrow at 6 a.m. I’m Sean Tubbs and what you’re about to hear are several stories that all come from the April 2 meeting of the Albemarle Board of Supervisors. This is another experiment in providing you with the tools to better know your

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29:59

Podcast for March 28, 2025: Albemarle Supervisors...

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2025/03/28

In the early days of Charlottesville Community Engagement, each edition was a newsletter as well as a podcast. In early 2024, this tradition was severed so I could make sure I could get a radio version on WTJU for Saturday morning 6 a.m. That’s the case with this March 28, 2025 edition which is being produced in an odd week with slightly less productivity due to seasonal allergies. I’m Sean Tubbs and next week may see further experimentation.* Albemarle Supervisors briefed on climate funding, pay

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38:56

Podcast for March 21, 2025: An introduction to...

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2025/03/21

A main purpose of this newsletter is to write about what’s happening with local government. Everyone in the United States of America lives within some sort of locality, either a city or a county. This newsletter is sometimes a podcast as is this case with this edition which provides potential listeners with stories about the budget formation in Albemarle County and Charlottesville.Your budget. You are part of your local budget. And if you are a resident of either jurisdiction aforementioned, you can

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32:34

Podcast for March 14, 2025: Multiple stories from the...

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2025/03/14

Perhaps there is something irrational about one person attempting to write as many stories as possible about a meeting of a public institution’s governing body. But that is the basic frame of this Pi Day edition of the Charlottesville Community Engagement podcast. I’m Sean Tubbs, and this week I’ve put a premium on going through several hours of the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors meeting to hear one specific incident. I didn’t get there yet, but what follows is the perhaps most thorough

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34:51

Podcast for March 6, 2025: A Congressman's town hall,...

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2025/03/06

The river of time is not always predictable and neither is the frequency of podcast versions of Charlottesville Community Engagement. The last one was on a Friday. Before that they were on Saturdays. For a brief time, Mondays. This is Thursday, a day of lament for Arthur Dent, but one in which Sean Tubbs feels it is important to get this out while some of the information is still fresh. Who is that? Well, I suppose it’s me.In this edition:* Local federal transportation funding may be under review

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42:17

Podcast for February 28, 2025: Emergency House of...

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2025/02/28

Why not end the month with an audio collection of recent stories that have so far appeared in written form in the digital pages of Charlottesville Community Engagement? At least, that’s what you’ll do if you decide to hit the play button! And when you do, you can find out for certain if the words uttered by the narrator match the one in this written introduction! I am Sean Tubbs, and I am that narrator, and no grant obligations were satisfied with today’s production.In this edition:* A summary of a

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Podcast for February 22, 2025: Local elections,...

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2025/02/22

When written in numbers, today’s full date has four twos, a zero, and a five. Put them all together in the right way and it’s February 22, 2025, and I will not play a similar puzzle with the name of the show which begins with two C-words and an E. I’m Sean Tubbs, the producer of Charlottesville Community Engagement which is made up of the audio versions of stories about local and regional government in the Central Virginia listening area. Let’s get to it.Today’s audio versions of stories already

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35:07

Podcast for February 8, 2025: Two briefings from...

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2025/02/08

With the writing of this sentence, I advance my desire to be more familiar with Democracy in America. In the fourth decade of the 19th century, a French national named Alexis de Tocqueville wrote two volumes of an examination of the system of government in the relatively new United States of America. I have vague memories of reading it over thirty years ago in a political science class at Virginia Tech and I’ve been meaning to take a look back in order to get a fresh perspective of where we are on

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Podcast for February 1, 2025: Four stories about...

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2025/02/01

We have all arrived at February 1, 2025 and this is the time to conduct whatever rituals you have to welcome the new month. Perhaps that includes listening to this edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement, an audio version of a newsletter about local and regional government. I’m Sean Tubbs and the next 30 minutes will feature some recent stories:In this edition:* Charlottesville City Council is briefed on $22.4 million surplus for FY24 (learn more)* The new director of Neighborhood

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35:19

Podcast for January 27, 2025: Catching up with...

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2025/01/27

In an alternate universe, the print edition and the podcast edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement would not have been separated. It is also possible that this is the alternative universe and we’ll all just have to get used to it.Either way, the next print edition is listed as being the 800th installment whereas this latest compilation of audio stories is classified in the Town Crier Productions taxonomy as CCE-799A. Both are expected to be published on January 26, 2025 but this is the one

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Podcast for January 20, 2025: MLK proclamation for...

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2025/01/20

At some point I said I would be getting podcasts out on Mondays, but last week’s came out on a Tuesday. I could have easily followed suit and posted this one tomorrow, but that would take away from the time it will take to write the stories for the January 21, 2025 regular edition of the Charlottesville Community Engagement. This particular podcast includes several stories that aired last Saturday on WTJU as well as two stories that will air next Saturday. Is this madness? Is there a method? I’m

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Podcast for January 14, 2025: Governor Youngkin...

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2025/01/14

More than 30 years have now passed since I began work as an intern for WVTF Public Radio, beginning a professional career that has at times included the production of audio stories. When Town Crier Productions first began putting out the Charlottesville Quarantine Report in March 2020, I finally returned back to having a sonic element as part of my work routine.The first 650 editions of this newsletter were all podcasts as well, but I made a change last February that has meant there’s only one of

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34:54

Podcast for December 23, 2024: Youngkin's economic...

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2024/12/23

It’s beginning to look a lot like a holiday break with Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and festive fixtures in the Barclays Premiership. Until then, there’s still some business to attend to such as a sonic recap of stories from last week in this podcast edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement. I’m Sean Tubbs, always interested in finding new ways to get the information out.On this penultimate edition for 2024:* Governor Glenn Youngkin recommends $1.1 billion fund to cover car tax credit as

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Podcast for December 16, 2024: Albemarle joins RTA,...

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2024/12/16

Welcome to a new era of the podcast edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement with an experiment in sending these out on a Monday morning as opposed to a Saturday afternoon. I’m Sean Tubbs, the host and producer and employee-of-the-month at Town Crier Productions.The reality is that most people who experience this information do so by scanning words arranged into paragraphs which works out well because that means I can get more editions out faster.But many of the stories are produced by

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37:43

Podcast for December 7, 2024: $20 million gift for...

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2024/12/07

And now we find ourselves on December 7, 2024 or at least that’s where I find myself when I’m putting together the latest sonic edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement. I’m Sean Tubbs, the only person currently working for Town Crier Productions unless you count two feline partners who occasionally make an appearance in the narrations but so far have not appeared in a recording. Is today the day? Listen for yourself!On this edition:* Quantitative Foundation gives another $20M to UVa for

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Podcast for November 30, 2024: Albemarle Supervisors...

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2024/11/30

As promised four weeks ago, this is the fifth Saturday of November. Or at least, this podcast edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement is being produced on November 30. Every week I write over two dozen stories but only some of them are converted into audio versions both for this feed and for WTJU-FM. Most of those stories also end up being added to Information Charlottesville, the archival companion to this Substack feed. I’m Sean Tubbs, and I put this together for many reasons but a love of

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Podcast for November 23, 2024: Albemarle Supervisors...

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2024/11/23

Eighty percent of Saturdays in this month of November have already occurred if you include the one in which this edition of the Charlottesville Community Engagement podcast is released into the world. At one point, there was a podcast for every newsletter. When you’re done listening to today’s edition, why not go back to 2020? Thanks to paid subscriptions, I’ve been able to develop a body of work over the past four and a half years and have tracked a great deal of information. As we approach the

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