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City Hall is a $3 billion yearly operation with a lot of moving parts and thousands of employees.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney is brushing himself off after Richmond voters for the second time rejected the $562 million casino-resort plan he fully backed and gearing up to run for governor in 2025. Separately, Paul Goldman, who led both successful no casino campaigns, is now focusing on securing public support for a change to the City Charter or constitution that would require the mayor and the City Council to put the city’s children first when it comes to spending tax dollars.

The failure of the casino to win a majority in one of the citys heavily Black wards north of the river signals the citys demographic shift — white residents now outnumber African Americans — and the declining muscle of Richmonds Black electorate.

No way. No how. That was Richmond voters’ resounding response to the question of whether a $562 million casino-resort should be developed in South Side.

Richmond, Virginia is reconsidering a casino ballot measure after a promoter said unkind things about "the Jews" and used the n-word on the radio, go figure.

A national housing nonprofit announced Tuesday that it will match Richmond’s five-year $50 million investment in affordable housing — a huge boost to efforts to increase the supply of less costly apartments and homes.

Will Richmond voters approve a resort and casino project? That’s the biggest question on the city ballot —– a repeat of 2021 when the proposal narrowly lost.

Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s administration hoped to expand a program that helps city employees to buy homes in the city.

Despite legal and logistical challenges, a 109-year-old memorial in Arlington National Cemetery is scheduled to be removed by Jan. 1.

Concern is growing over the dwindling money in a family crisis fund that Richmond created to provide direct cash payments.