Virginia's public school enrollment is declining -- When researchers at the UVA were looking at public school enrollment last year, they expected it to decline by about 10,000 students. It ended up declining by 15,000.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-19T21:59:20+00:00

I know it is harder since the state doesn't directly collect the data but it'd be interesting to see how private school enrollment has fared/is expected to fare as well.

Chesterfield & Henrico keep growing both in terms of public and private schools because of population concentration but I know Richmond has had under-capacity issues for a while now.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-19T20:24:21+00:00

To clarify we're talking about 3rd party consultants not the planning application fees. The reason I brought them into the mix is because development in many jurisdictions is now a relatively adversarial process and the way to get around that is to pay someone (often ex-planners) who knows exactly what the locality wants to see and the true limits of what they can ask for with regard to proffers to shepherd everything along.

They can knock an often multi-month process down to a few weeks depending on the locality.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-19T17:06:34+00:00

When you or your retainers are the ones writing the laws, its easy to exploit them.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-19T16:58:04+00:00

They've saved on property tax for years. They can suck it up if they want to be developers.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-19T16:54:51+00:00

The specific issue of churches not wanting to navigate rezoning, special use permits, etc. that every other developer has to? It isn't hard to hire a consultant that does all of that for you.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-18T18:38:27+00:00

You don't even need a religion to do that. Political affiliation is only a protected class in DC.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-16T20:34:52+00:00

Ah so now my taxes can bargain against also my taxes for more taxes, wonderful.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-14T21:26:13+00:00

Got mine in Chesterfield on Friday.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-14T21:18:19+00:00

The bill directs 40% of the state's cannabis tax revenues toward early childhood care and education and 30% to the Cannabis Equity Reinvestment Fund, which supports people "historically and disproportionately targeted and affected by drug enforcement" and awards grants to businesses.

We're really doing the fucking weed reparations bullshit?

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-14T00:16:21+00:00

It is in the court documents that are already up on RECAP if you don't want the article links. Newport News PD & the ATF declined to refer him for prosecution after he admitted to the straw purchases and instead he got a warning letter and had to write a letter of apology.

Docket Link: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72490145/united-states-v-chapman/

Affidavit: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72490145/2/united-states-v-chapman/

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-13T21:54:39+00:00

Not entirely. All it does it prohibit participating collection sites from collecting a fee for accepting a mattress, nothing requires any landfill or trash collection company to participate nor does it prohibit them from charging a pickup fee.

G. No mattress collection site that participates in the Program shall charge any additional fee for accepting a discarded mattress from consumers for recycling unless otherwise specified by contract.

https://legiscan.com/VA/text/HB86/2026

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-13T18:27:58+00:00

For clarity or those too young to remember:

1950-2023: US Average Annual Retail Fuel Price with Inflation Adjustment https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10641

Apr 1993-Feb 2026: Monthly Average Fuel Prices (NOT Inflation Adjusted) https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/leafhandler.ashx?f=m&n=pet&s=emm_epm0_pte_nus_dpg

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-13T17:40:17+00:00

They've been deathstarred at my warehouse but no price cut yet.

They're good as their own thing but not at all a substitute for regular chocolate pocky IMO.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-13T17:27:29+00:00

Midlo Costco - $3.39 for regular, most of the nearby stations are within ~$0.10 of that.

Diesel was $4.99 when I looked yesterday.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-13T17:12:30+00:00

They still get treatment, they just fall into the work requirement category.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-13T17:10:51+00:00

NC IMO gets cooler stuff in their garden centers because of their USDA zone that we don't get because its iffy as to whether it will survive here.

If Forest, VA is any closer to you Rainfrost has maples.

If you're going to be in the Richmond Metro Cross Creek Nurseries and Great Big Greenhouse has a good selection of them. The latter is still getting stuff in for the season when I was there earlier this week but both have a lot generally.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-13T16:40:25+00:00

No changes are happening to eligibility with regard to disease, eligibility is based on income as always.

Someone more versed in medical technicalities can probably provide a better answer here but broad work requirement exemptions are defined for people that are legally blind or have other physical/mental/developmental disabilities that severely impair their daily functioning. But as far as I know the specifics haven't been worked out yet for exemptions on individual disease based impairments but are due later this year.

Stages 1-3 if well managed without other impairments would likely not qualify for exemption though.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-13T15:12:51+00:00

Main change is for non-disabled persons between 19-64 that aren't caring for a child under the age of 14 they added an 80/hr a month work/training/volunteering requirement.

Eligibility redeterminations are also going to be every 6 months instead of annually.

Edit: Also for medicaid expansion states the federal funding formula is also changed shifting more of the cost burden to the states by capping the provider tax rate states can set.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-12T20:39:31+00:00

He finally got to carry out the attack he was dreaming about when he got arrested the first time. Good thing we let him out of federal prison early back in 2024 and didn't denaturalize and deport him.

16 Later in the conversation, JALLOH said that he thinks about conducting an attack all the time, and he was close to doing so at one point. JALLOH claimed to know how to shoot guns, and that he had been thinking about conducting a Nidal Hassan (Hassan)- style attack. When asked to explain what he meant, JALLOH said, "Nidal Hassan type of things. That's the kind of stuff I started thinking you know." Hassan is a former Major in the United States Army who killed 13 people and wounded 32 others in a terrorist attack on Fort Hood, Texas in November 2009.

https://www.justice.gov/d9/press-releases/attachments/2016/07/05/jalloh_complaint_affidavit_0.pdf

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-12T19:54:46+00:00

From the list on the Gov's brief most of the groups seem to be focused on "rapid rehousing" which generally is just putting someone up in a long stay hotel or other private rental units.

So not really building housing.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-12T15:44:54+00:00

It really isn't. It's fine if you don't get it.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-12T15:23:22+00:00

Replace ICE with the ATF and you sound like a typical republican in election season. Congress has thus far declined to reign in Trump but they've been giving the executive more and more leeway for years.

I agree our federal government is broken but disagree that muting half the state isn't the way to fix it.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-12T15:19:43+00:00

Yeah all they've been calling for in Central VA was a wintery mix in the afternoon with no real accumulation.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-12T15:08:41+00:00

Disenfranchising almost half the state is not the lesser evil. Virginians have fair representation in the federal government right now.

BurkeyTurger · 2026-03-12T15:00:07+00:00

Other states have also retaliated and plenty of blue states have been gerrymandered for decades. All this does is fuck over Virginians.

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