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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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34:23

Podcast for September 26, 2025: Three stories on...

Charlottesville Community Engagement ·

2025/09/26

We have reached the end of another week here at Charlottesville Community Engagement and all that is left to do is put together an audio version using the stories already told. Listening might become habit-forming if you have an interest in discussions about the future, and if you want to spot the mistakes. Is this the one where I leave in the curse words? Tune in!If not, this edition also serves as a way to remind you of some of the stories this week.In this edition:* Albemarle Planning Commission

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36:56

Podcast for September 19, 2025: City Manager Sanders...

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2025/09/19

“National Public Radio will serve the individual: it will promote personal growth; it will regard the individual differences among men with respect and joy rather than derision and hate.” Thus begins a document written by Bill Siemering in 1969 when the federal government was investing in public broadcasting. Charlottesville Community Engagement is a newsletter and podcast that is not public media but aspires to all of the principles in that document. I’m Sean Tubbs, and I’ll be bringing up that

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30:49

Podcast for September 15, 2025: Several stories from...

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2025/09/15

Generally the audio version of Charlottesville Community Engagement comes out on a Friday or a Saturday, but due to a series of factors, this time around non-radio listeners can hear it on a Monday. We’re in a time when so much is happening all at once, but this particular week there needed to be a break, an eddy in the space-time continuum. I’m Sean Tubbs, and here are the items you’re going to hear today:In this edition:* UVA fundraising surpassed $885 million in FY2025 (read the story)* FEI

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31:36

Podcast for September 5, 2025: Charlottesville City...

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2025/09/05

There is a different gravity to holidays weeks as the routine is challenged in exchange for the illusion of a day off. Or at least, that’s definitely the case with this edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement produced at the end of a truncated week in which a lot seems to have happened. I’m Sean Tubbs, and if you’re a skeptic of the audio, I still recommend listening to the first story today.In this edition:* Charlottesville City Council ends consideration of anti-camping ordinance after

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36:53

Podcast for August 30, 2025: City Council to take up...

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2025/08/30

There are perhaps more than two ways to experience Charlottesville Community Engagement, but the audio edition is one of the ones that I know about. I’m Sean Tubbs, a journalist who got his professional start as an intern at a public radio station in Roanoke thirty years ago. Before that I spent a couple of years at a student newspaper at Virginia Tech. Somehow all of that led to this time in 2025 when I’m able to produce radio and print stories for an audience that pays me to do the work. Thank you

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33:32

Podcast for August 22, 2025: Albemarle Supervisors...

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2025/08/22

Once more into the breach we go, though we’re not headed for battle but for another bout of audio stories collected and packaged as the Charlottesville Community Engagement podcast. This is an element of Town Crier Productions, a one-person information outlet created in 2020 to provide me, Sean Tubbs, with a way to do what I love best: Write stories that may seem obscure until you realize I’m writing about growth, economic development, and living in a changing community.In this edition:* One person

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32:51

Podcast for August 15, 2025: Charlottesville zoning,...

Charlottesville Community Engagement ·

2025/08/15

A glimpse behind the scenes as this audio edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement begins. These introductory paragraphs are often nothing more than text that serves to begin a program that sounds a lot like public radio but isn’t public radio. Instead, they are audio versions of some of the stories you might have read complete with the voices of the people quoted! If you’ve not heard one of these before, consider starting with this one. And, check to see if this written paragraph actually

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33:07

Podcast for August 8, 2025: Interim UVA president,...

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2025/08/08

The time has come for another audio edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement. Or at least it is time for me to produce one. I’m Sean Tubbs, the publisher at Town Crier Productions, an extravagant name for a company that describes the kind of journalism I produce as often as I can. I got my start in public radio and use audio from meetings to fuel my reporting. In this edition:* UVA Board of Visitors appoints law professor as interim president (learn more)* Community walk planned for

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40:02

Podcast for August 2, 2025: Developing Albemarle...

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2025/08/02

Program note: Every Saturday at 6 a.m., an audio version of this newsletter airs on WTJU. The copy for this newsletter is the for the one that aired today Good morning and welcome to another archive edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement for August 2, 2025. I’m Sean Tubbs, the publisher at Town Crier Productions. For the past five years, I’ve been writing stories about the community from a close-up perspective, documenting all manner of stories.Today’s edition is going to feature several of

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37:33

Podcast for July 25, 2025: Audio stories on...

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2025/07/25

At long last, another sonic edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement. It’s summertime and the podcasting isn’t as easy due to a combination of travel, heat, and other factors but this edition will tide you over until the next version which may be in two weeks. Or perhaps on time? I’m Sean Tubbs, and if you’ve never heard one of these before, take a listen!In this edition:* Charlottesville City Council refers Development Code back to Planning Commission (learn more)* Charlottesville files

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33:17

Podcast for July 11, 2025: Five radio stories from...

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2025/07/11

What is the purpose of journalism? What is the purpose of the government? What makes up society? How did we get here? All the questions David Byrne asked in Once in a Lifetime? This is the audio edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement, a podcast that features audio versions of stories that have gone out in the written version. To add to the confusion, there’s also Information Charlottesville which is intended to capture all of these stories in one place for future people to look back

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32:24

Podcast for July 5, 2025: Naturalization ceremony...

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2025/07/05

There are now 364 days to go until the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a historic document that remains relevant as we approach the semiquincentennial. Eight days have passed since the executive branch of the federal government demanded the resignation of University of Virginia President Jim Ryan. There’s a lot happening, and Charlottesville Community Engagement is intended to document as much as possible. I’m Sean Tubbs.In this edition:* Five people were shot in the city’s

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33:09

Podcast for June 20, 2025: Several stories from...

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2025/06/20

In this edition:* There’s a new vote-counting system in Charlottesville City Council but this past week, Council had to take a series of voice votes because it wasn’t quite ready.* City Council briefed on Neighborhood Development Services work plan, forthcoming zoning changes (learn more) * City Council gets briefing on Human Rights work in Charlottesville (learn more) (2.75)* Charlottesville Police Chief Michael Kochis addresses recent shootings on the Downtown Mall as well as a decision to not use

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32:25

Podcast for June 14, 2025: Albemarle Supervisors get...

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2025/06/14

The podcast edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement marks the end of the workweek for the devoted staff at Town Crier Productions and the beginning of the next one. The mission is to write as much as possible and to always strive to capture more. The podcast edition reaches about a tenth of the audience for the written version. From a production standpoint, they’re the same thing - stories about the community that may help you understand some of the shifting dynamics. I’m Sean Tubbs, and I’m

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31:24

Podcast for June 7, 2025: City Manager Sanders...

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2025/06/07

The end of the week at Town Crier Productions means it is time for another audio edition produced in the form of a podcast! Newer readers may not know that for many years, all of these versions went out in sonic form. Will that ever happen again? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Perhaps all effort in the future will go toward a version not unlike Bazooka Joe comics? In any case, I’m Sean Tubbs and it may be time to get on with the show.In this edition:* Charlottesville City Manager Sam Sanders addresses

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32:43

Podcast for May 31, 2025: Free Enterprise Forum holds...

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2025/05/31

Regularity is important in a publication, but there’s a certain uncertainty that comes with material created by Town Crier Productions. The goal is for the podcast editions to come out on Fridays, but there are times when that will shift. The reasons for these occasional deviations are not to be written out, but if you listen to the recording perhaps I will explain more. I’m Sean Tubbs and this is my best attempt at suspense.In this edition:* The Free Enterprise Forum holds a campaign forum for the

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34:14

Podcast for May 25, 2025: City Council candidate...

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2025/05/25

Congratulations! You’re about to listen to the latest edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement! All you have to do is hit the play button and you’ll be able to hear several stories about what’s happening in local and regional government. Many of the stories that go out in this newsletter are produced in a manner that allows people to listen, using the voices of people who are in the stories! This is not a new concept, but this is a necessary paragraph to get me to the point where I say I’m

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31:10

Podcast for May 16, 2025: Leaders of Albemarle,...

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2025/05/16

Brace yourselves now for another sonic edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement with audio versions of stories that have already gone out in this feed. These podcasts also appear in radio form on WTJU on Saturday morning at 6 a.m. but you can decide when you to listen the podcast. I’m Sean Tubbs, and I could decide to wait to produce it, but then everything would go stale.In this edition:* The executives in charge of Albemarle, Charlottesville, and the University of Virginia talk

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31:29

Podcast for May 9, 2025: Four stories on...

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2025/05/09

If you have never heard the podcast edition of the newsletter before, how will you be able to tell if the words I am writing here are actually the words I’m saying to the hundreds of listeners? Don’t you want to hear the way people in these stories sound? Wouldn’t you like to see if the editors left in the many curse words that are uttered during production? Either way, there are both written and sonic versions of Charlottesville Community Engagement and one day there may be a version told entirely

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25:45

Podcast for May 2, 2025: Albemarle’s final budget...

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2025/05/02

Would anyone notice if the podcast version of Charlottesville Community Engagement were to be produced from Antarctica? What about Zaire? It is conceivable that this weekly audio edition of the newsletter could be put together just about anywhere as long as all of the equipment can be packed into a suitable bag. That’s the case this time around. I’m Sean Tubbs, and I’m not sure where I am, either.In this edition:* Speakers at final budget public hearing ask Albemarle Supervisors to spend more on

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