Charlottesville City Council reflects on turmoil, discusses budget projections
Charlottesville City Council reflects on turmoil, discusses budget projections By Max Marcilla | January 19, 2021 at 11:12 PM EST - Updated January 19 at 11:37 PM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - The leadership struggles for the city of Charlottesville prompted two members of the city council to speak candidly during Tuesday nightâs meeting.
While they had plenty of financial issues to address, many in the city are concerned with turmoil at the top and are hoping the hiring of a new city manager could help ease it.
The most eye-opening portion of the meeting may have come after the public comment, when Councilor Michael Payne said, âIâm going to take a riskâ and âspeak from the heart.â
To the Editor,
On the front page of this previous Thursday’s (March 18, 2021) Mount Airy paper, a brief summary of the recent public shooting in Georgia was printed. A young white man, who clearly has mental issues as anyone does who commits a mass shooting, killed a small number of individuals mostly of whom were Asian females that worked at massage parlors located in an area that seems to be motivated towards sexual entertainment.
The writer of that news article stated that the rise of hate crimes towards Asian-Americans is due to white supremacy. It seems like ever since President Obama took office that everything wrong in America is because of white people, white Christians, and/or white males and their supremacy.