The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Bigger Concern: Pop. Decrease, Homelessness, Econ Dev?; Sherry Taylor Retires From Z95.1 After 18Yrs

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

The I Love CVille Show headlines: Bigger Concern: Pop. Decrease, Homelessness, Econ Dev? Sherry Taylor Retiring From Z95.1 FM After 18 Years UVA Student Activists Targeting Miyares Event Dominion Energy Bills Are Outpacing Inflation La Michoacana Opening 2nd Restaurant On High St Malcolm Brogdon Named Strategic Advisor To Ryan Odom List Of Former UVA Stars Hoo Live In CVille Area Need CVille Office & Commercial Space, Contact Jerry Read Viewer & Listener Comments Live On-Air The I Love CVille Show airs live Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network. Watch and listen to The I Love CVille Show on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, iTunes, Apple Podcast, YouTube, Spotify, Fountain, Amazon Music, Audible, Rumble and iLoveCVille.com.

Welcome to the I Love Sevo Show, guys. Good Tuesday afternoon to you, and thank you kindly for joining us. On the water cooler of content and conversation here in Charlottesville, Central Virginia, and across the Commonwealth, the country, and the world. Today's program encourages you, the viewer, and listener to help us execute the show. We want to crowdsource your ideas and your content. And I'm going to ask you for help on a talking point today. Our morning show on Tuesday is the Jerry and Jerry Show, and we'll give some love to Jerry Rackleff.com.

He's a Virginia Sports Hall of Famer. He's been in the media business for more than 50 years on the UVA beat for almost the entire time. It's been to 52 straight ACC basketball tournament, Jerry Rackleff. He's got a new business model that we're helping him with and helping him grow market share. It's a subscriber-based business model. Subscribe to Jerry Rackleff.com where he's putting out two to three pieces of content per day, UVA sports content that you can't find anywhere else because everywhere else has been slashed and cut. That's legacy media.

We'll talk about that with Sherry Taylor and Z95.1 FM here in a matter of moments. But on the morning show with Jerry Rackleaf.com, and I'm a subscriber of Jerry Rackleff.com, $8 a month, literally the price of a coffee, gets you 60 new stories a month that are UVA sports-related. It's an absolute no-brainer. I mean, just fantastic stuff. And on the morning show, news broke that Malcolm Brogden was named a strategic advisor for Ryan Odom. Malcolm Brogden had a nine-year career in the National Basketball Association. Malcolm Brogden has career professional basketball earnings of more than $133 million over his nine-year career.

133 million plus over his nine-year career. Malcolm Brogden is 33 years old. He is now returning to Charlestville, his wife and their kids, where Brogden will serve as a strategic advisor to Ryan Odom. I'm curious to see if Malcolm Brogden buys a house in the Charlottesville area, Almore County, the Charlottesville area, and sets up roots here like a lot of former players. and that got me thinking. Viewers and listeners help me with this. Who are the former UVA sports stars that now call the Charlottesville area their home?

That's the question I have for you. Looks like LinkedIn is frozen. Yeah, I keep restarting it. Let's just restart it again. I mean, I don't want to flood people with frozen content on LinkedIn if it's not fixable, because that's what happened

during the Jerry and Jerry show. if you generally watch during LinkedIn head over to our YouTube channel the I Love Seville Network and watch the show there what's that judah i see it moving on uh lincoln now i'm going to ask viewers and listeners this question who are the former UVA sports stars that calls charlottesville their home that's the question i want to talk about chris long is obvious that's low-hanging fruit heath miller and chris long heath miller and chris long heath miller the football coach at St. Ann's Bellfield Academy. Sean Singletary, Jeff Gaffney, Barry Parkhill, Travis Watson, examples of former UVA sports stars that call the Charlottesville-Almoral County area their home. What are some other ones that I can put on the list

and relay to the viewers and listeners? I have Chris Long, Heath Miller, the fabulous tight end for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Chris Long had a great career. as a defensive end in the National Football League. Sean Singletary, the talented point guard. Jeff Gaffney, friend of the program. He's the host of the Everyday Faith podcast, Jeff Gaffney.

Did you know this, that Jeff Gaffney, the CEO of Real State 3, is the all-time point scorer still to this day for the UVA men's soccer team? No one has registered more points, goals, and assist, in men's soccer at the University of Virginia in its fabled and storied history. than Jeff Gaffney.

That's significant right there. He's still super fit. I mean, the man looks like Patrick Swayze from Roadhouse. Fit is a fiddle. Barry Parkhill and Travis Watson are off the top of my head. If James Watson is watching this program, this question is literally right up his alley. Former UVA stars that are sports stars

that call the Charlottesville area their home. A lot I want to cover on the broadcast today. I want to talk about the intersection or the Venn diagram of homelessness, population, reduction, and economic development diminishing in the greater Charlottesville area, specifically the city. We're going to unpack that Venn diagram for you, the viewer and listener today. I want to talk about Sherry Taylor. She's been the face, the voice, I should say, of Z-95.1 FM. is Sherry Taylor's last day on the airwaves.

18 years Sherry Taylor has graced us with her bubbly and peppy presence on Z95.1. Z95 is a real flame thrower of a radio station. It's got, that's radio talk for reach. It's got significant signal coverage, Z95.1. Friday's her last day on the job. And like that, viewers and listeners, we are losing yet. another iconic legacy media institution. I mean, Vinnie Keist comes to mind. Sherry Taylor is certainly in that breath. Marty Huttloff is in that breath. Sharon Gregory is in that breath.

Norm, the weatherman, is in that breath. Let's not talk about that one weatherman from NBC29. We will talk about Norm. We won't talk about that other weatherman from NBC29. But there's some icons from legacy media that we've lost. I mean, thank God that Jerry Rackleff has reinvented himself at jerry rackliff. You talk about institutions, Jerry Rackleff, the columnist for the Daily Progress forever. The icons, the institutions are falling by the white side. Brian McKenzie is now out of print and working at the University of Virginia.

Who are some of those other icons? that are no longer working in legacy media, which is to the loss of the community. That's the community's loss. Georgia Gilmer says, let's add the Stokes brothers to the superstars that live locally. One of the Stokes brothers is a doctor locally. They were talented basketball players. Curtis Shaver is exactly right. Chris Long and Heath Miller are atop the list.

You're exactly right. C-shafe. 100% on that. I want to talk these topics with you, the viewer, and listener, and crowdsource your ideas. Put your comments in the feed, and we will relay them live on air. I also want to talk on today's show about a UVA activist group that is, I mean, really being a nuisance and a pest. This activist group is called, what is the group named, Judah? Which one are we talking about?

The UVA activist student group. Oh, I believe it's UVA dissenters. the group bills itself as UVA dissenters. And now they're targeting the schedules and calendars of stakeholders and elected officials. They're going after Jason Miari's now. I want to talk about this activist group and ask the question, how are they even allowed to activate in this fashion on grounds? That's a topic on today's show.

we'll also talk on the program about Dominion Energy bills far outpacing inflation. You want a unifying talking point or a unifying storyline for Virginia Democrats and Virginia Republicans. How about the fact that Dominion Energy is basically shaking down its customers? The sad part of this, the fraudulent part of this,

the corrupt part of this, is Dominion Energy is one of the most significant contributors to politicians and their campaigns across the Commonwealth of Virginia. So how many of these elected officials have the Cajonies, the gumption, the courage, the fortitude to stand up against Dominion and their shakedown tactics of customers in the Commonwealth? Just look at the Virginia Board of Visitors. Abigail Spamberger appointed the Dominion Energy head Hancho, UV, UVABA, B, or so. I want to make sure I have his name. I should know that. Carlos Brown unanimously elected Carlos Brown and Victoria Harker to assume the positions of rector and vice rector. Carlos Brown of Glenn Allen previously served on UVA's board of visitors

from 2021 to 2025. He was appointed by Governor Ralph Northrum. He also served as vice rector. He currently serves as executive vice president, chief administrative and projects officer and corporate secretary for Dominion Energy and the president of Dominion Energy services. A former governor in Ralph Northrum appoints Carlos Brown to the UVA BOV. Now the sitting governor, Abigail Spanberger, appoints Carlos Brown of Dominion Energy to the UVABOV, all while Dominion Energy is taxing and invoicing and shaking down us in the Commonwealth to the tune of expensive and historic proportions. Make it make sense. I want to talk about that on the program today.

I also want to chatter on the water cooler of content and conversation. La Mieto Kana opening a second location on High Street. They move from the location that we've fallen in love with the family and their food to the old Domino's Pizza location on Stewart Street. and they've decided to open a breakfast and brunch spot in their original location. You genuinely can do kind of like a taco tour. And the taco tour would be the original location for the breakfast and brunch spot to their new location, the old domino spot on Stewart Street,

to Tacos Gomez, the food truck. a taco tour and I think Lazy Parrot even has tacos as well there's a taco tour right there waiting to happen has La Mieto Kana not only figured out the secret sauce

for fantastic Mexican cuisine but have they dialed in the recipe for opening new restaurants in a challenged economic climate here in the greater Charlottesville area all those topics and more on the water cooler of content and conversation I believe LinkedIn is not functioning correct

Is that right? It looks to mealy. No, it's not functioning correctly. I'm getting it from multiple people. At this point, let's ditch it, try to figure out post-show, and stay committed to the 15 other channels that are live. So let's halt the efforts. We'll cut our losses and make a strategic decision to focus on the 15 other channels that are live now. Let's go to studio camera and then a two-shot and we'll weave you in Judah Wickhauer

with the same question I ask you for every. every show to start, that way you're not surprised and kind of get you in the groove of which storyline most intrigues you today and why, Judah Wickhauer, the Jack of All Trades, and the metronome of consistency on the I Love Sebel show. The show is yours, Judah. Well, you know, I think it's probably a fight between Lami Chau-Connor's new opening because I love them. They do an amazing job.

And, and, you know, these activists, it's stunning. The lack of the lack of just being able to look

inside themselves and see what they're doing. I mean, take a look at all of these anti-authoritarian protests we've got going on, including these student activists targeting Miaris events. I don't have any particular love for Jason Miaris,

but come on. You're trying to fight against authoritarianism by limiting free speech. Do you not see the problem with that? I think that's going to be an interesting discussion. We'll talk about it on the show. Andrew Mitten has been added by William McChesney to the UVA superstars that live in the Charlottesville area. I now have Chris Long, Heath Miller, Sean Singletary, Jeff Gaffney, Barry Park Hill, Travis Watson,

the Stokes brothers, Bobby and Ricky, and Andrew Mitten as UVA superstars that live in the Charlottesville area. I'm curious if Malcolm Brogden is going to now buy a home in the Charlottesville area after being. named a strategic advisor to Ryan Odom. That news broke this morning, basically an assistant coach in a lot of ways. Malcolm Brogden, over 133 million in career earnings. He has the mullah to buy a house here. We'll talk about that on the program. Stacey Baker-Patti, Joe Reed, excellent call.

Stacey Baker-Pattery. Joe Reed is a partner at Pro Renata and Joe Reed is a talented mortgage broker. Stacey Baker-Patti, excellent work per you. per usual from you, Stacey Baker-Patty. Joe Reed needs to be on that list. And I want you to talk about this. I want you to consider this viewers and listeners. The former UVA stars

that are often, in some cases, deep-pocketed, that can live anywhere they want in the world. I mean, Malcolm Brockton made $133-plus million just in NBA earnings. That's not even including endorsements. If someone like Brogden comes to Charlottesville and calls it its home,

like Chris Long has done, like Heath Miller has done, right? That speaks to the upside, the amenity-rich environment that we have here. On top of that, it's a fantastic driver for the economy. I mean, take Chris Long, for example. Chris Long has sold a number of homes. Bolton sold a number of homes locally. Believe he lives in Farmington now where he bought an older home in Farmington after selling Bronco Medanhall's old house. Chris Long purchased Bronco Medanhall, the former head coach, his former house. Chris Long purchased Broncos house. Then sold it, I believe, or

it may still be on the market. I think it's sold. Fantastic estate. Then bought an older home in Farmington only to renovate it. He previously had a penthouse in the Gleason, the apartment building next to ACAC and downtown Charlottesville. Chris also owns a

building on Water Street where his production studio for his podcast, Green Light is located. He has a retailer on the ground level. I believe it's a bard yoga that leases for him, or it might be next to the Bard Studio, but he owns this building, kind of next to where Iron Popples and coffee are, and next to where Bard's Studio is located. I mean, just take the Chris Long microcosa of an economic driver

buys Broncos house, sells Broncos house, buys a home in Farmington, guts it, renovates it, completely reimagines it, has a penthouse in the Gleason, buys a commercial. commercial building on Water Street, hosts this media and production company in downtown Charlottesville, is running a non-profit charity water boys in the Charlottesville area. I see Kerry Rock watching the program. He's a huge proponent of the water boys. Take Heath Miller.

Heath Miller comes back to Charlottesville. He's the head football coach at St. Anne's Belfield Academy. I see Travis Watson, maybe once or twice a month, at the Tiger Fuel on Preston Avenue. He has a beautiful Toyota that he drives. Travis is an entrepreneur running a basketball camp and basketball training, business, and the greater Charlottesville area. Having these guys back in the Charlottesville area is good for the economy. It's good for business.

An example of how wonderful it is to live here. The lead of the show I want to talk is the Venn diagram, Judah, as you put the lower third on screen, of homelessness, the drop in population, and the questions surrounding economic development. There's another significant business that will be leaving downtown Charlottesville. That's not my news to break. It will happen. I've been sworn to secrecy, significant business that is pulling out of downtown Charlestville. I've questioned on this program the economic development strategies.

And let's just forget LinkedIn if you're still working on that. No, it seems to be going. I don't know why it's not working for you, but I'm seeing us both moving our lips on it. Oh, well, I'm getting a – I have half a dozen text messages that says we're currently not live there. But regardless, we'll go with what we have here and make the best of what we have, the best of what we got. I've questioned the economic development strategy. I've clearly questioned how we're going to – It's a question whether there was one.

Right. I don't even think there is one. from COVID until now. I don't think there is one. I've questioned the houselessness population and what we're doing to remedy it. It's just absurd what's happening. We had a conversation about that

with a business owner this morning who was very much in agreement. I've questioned the drop in population and I've asked, is the drop in population a tie to this economic development strategy that's missing, this homeless population, the one-party control of Charlottesville

and how activists are bullying people here in the city. Great example of this is the school resource officer petition that livable Charlottesville launched got very little engagement. The whole point of the petition was to sign a digital petition that would remove school resource officers from the public schools in the city. Had less than 100 sign-ease. signatures. But the folks that signed it were the leaders of the

activist community. And as a result, because of their peer pressure and their bullying tactics, the school board is now considering removing school resource officers from the hallways and classrooms and entrances of public schools. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised

that the school was hoping that there were more signes, but who knows? It just, if you have less than a hundred people engaging in a petition, and then it becomes an agenda item on the school board. It makes the school board look like it's weak. So, show us yours, Judah.

People count on you for your consistent metronome commentary. The Venn diagram of homelessness, population drop, economic development strategy that's missing, the activist community that is small, vocal, organized, and strong, and the one-party control of Charlottesville, Virginia. I mean, it's kind of all one piece, and I don't know that I can break down where one ends and another begins. There's obviously a lot going on, a lot more than just homelessness and economic development. There's also the insanity going on in the Middle East. There's

half of our country believing the other half are evil. There's just headwinds everywhere you look. And Charlottesville is kind of, you know, they're kind of looking to the future with this shelter, but I don't know if there's, if there are actual plans. And I don't know that. I love that, I don't know, phrase. That they're going to be, well, I can't speak to what they,

what they're planning, what they want to do, whether they actually have, you know, serious considerations here or just, you know, hopes and dreams. But what is clear is there's a lot more going on than just homeless people. And if that's what you're going to focus on, then I, you know, I see someone juggling, you know, several balls in the air. and they've got their eye on one of them, and the others just keep falling down. I'm going to just pass along the storylines in the city that are 2026 storylines alone,

and then I'm going to open it up to viewer and listener comments. UVA football fans says on Twitter, LinkedIn is not working. I would encourage you to go back to LinkedIn because it does appear we're now up and running. Here are the storylines. 2026 alone and no particular order. The first storyline is this program

questioning the economic development strategy and whether there is one for the Charlottesville City post-COVID or from 2020 until now from the start of COVID until now. Second storyline was the Holiday Drive purchase. And before we talked the Holiday Drive homeless shelter storyline.

We talked about Mike Kottis being verbally berated by activists in council chambers after he presented a no sheltering in place policy that counsel asked him to present. Exactly. Other storylines this year alone, okay, the closing of the cross streets in downtown Charlottesville. I've heard from two dozen merchants on the downtown mall. Jerry, please use your platform and ask viewers and listeners why counsel is okay with a huge sign on the entry point to Market Street that says downtown mall closed. Does it really say that? Yeah, go look at the sign.

Come look at the digital sign. It's one of those construction digital signs that you see when there's construction work done on the interstate or the highway. Downtown Mall streets closed. That's what it says. why would they put a sign like that on the gateway or the entryway? People are asking, why are you doing that in the spring? Yeah. Why are you doing that on the 50-year anniversary of the mall

and the 250-year anniversary of the country? Okay, well, I can, first, why are they doing it on, I can understand the problem with having them do it in the spring when we're just getting busy, when the restaurants have had massive issues, they've had snow and ice stopping people from visiting. I can understand why they're trying to get it done before the 50th anniversary of the downtown mall because I think we can all agree that when that rolls around,

it would be nice if the mall looked its actual best. On the other hand, there's the question of why, why they're doing it right in the middle of spring. There's a question of especially why they would say that the mall is closed or the mall roads are closed and not just something like these two blocks of 2nd Street are closed for the next week or whatever. There's the parking garage storyline from 2026 with artificial intelligence taking your data and then reselling it. that's been a storyline there's the the population decrease storyline for charlottesville city yeah the decrease in population right these are just 2026 storylines alone and we're 90 we're at the end

of the first quarter right today's the last day of q1 economic development is there a plan or has there even been a plan from the start of COVID until 9 2026 storyline the no sheltering in place policy that was used by activists to stigmatize, to basically saying homelessness is being criminalized by common sense people. There's the population decrease, the parking garage, the closing of the cross streets, all this coinciding with the 50-year anniversary. That's just in the first 90 days. There's this Venn diagram in the middle where all these things intersect. What's first, the chicken or the egg. Is the first the one-party control?

Is the first the activism dictating the pace and tempo? Is the first the homelessness? Is the first the lack of economic development? Is the first the fact that we haven't rebounded from COVID? 2019, this was not the scenario. 2019, Charlottesville really did not need, in 2019, the city did not need an economic development strategy. I can make a convincing argument for you that even before,

COVID there was not an economic development strategy. The extent of the economic development strategy before COVID was to ride the coattails of having some of the most restaurants per capita in the nation and the city, riding the coattails of tourism tied to

the wedding industry, breweries, wineries, sideries, writing UVA sports, riding the University of Virginia and its wealthy student base, riding the downtown mall in its eight blocks, riding the economic vitality of billionaires by the handful of dozens living locally,

legitimately. I heard from a very smart person. There were 40 plus of them living locally in the Charlottesville area. The hedge funds all locally positioned here. It did not have to have an economic development strategy, Charlottesville. And once the pandemic hit, it's warts. The cracks in the armor started showing. And there was no rebound plan.

or rebound strategy. In fact, things were so bad that we started using phrases like, we need to stabilize the organization coming out of the Nakaya Walker era. And we were so quick, and yours truly included, fell victim to this, we were so quick to tout the stabilization of the organization by the Lloyd Snooks or the Juan Wade's or the Brian Pinkstons that we did not look beyond the first layer of stabilization and then ask

the question, okay, you made the ship, you kept the ship from going to the jagged shoreline, what are you doing to make sure that the ship is now going into a different course out to see where it can catch some fish

and feed the city? Okay? Because right now the snooks and the wades and the pinkstons of the world, they stabilized it. The Sam Sanders of the world, they stabilized it, but they didn't take the ship, they kept the ship from crashing into the proverbial shoreline, into the jagged coastline. But they did not redirect the ship from the bay back to the ocean where the deep sea fishing was possible.

We haven't pushed on that. And as a result, population decrease. As a result, downtown mall vacancies. As a result, smoke and mirror of downtown mall vacancies with non-prudgment. profits in Charlottesville divisions like CRHA or Operation Hope that assimilates convicts back into society on the

downtown mall for their office. Parks and Rec on the downtown mall. A big time business locally is going to be making its announcement soon that it's pulling out of the mall. They haven't taken the boat back to deep sea fishing. And I'll take blame for that.

For not pushing the tempo more. And the collateral damage of that, I think that's the first thing. You know, I think the first thing is the lack of econ dev strategy. I think the second thing is the one-party control that's being bullied by organized activist community. Yeah. That's the second thing. There's no discussion.

There's no, okay, well, maybe there's a better way to do this. It's just, you know, we know what we're doing. I think the third thing that came from the first two that I just mentioned is the homelessness. And once the homelessness came, the economic development snowballed. And then once that happened, the population started being diminished. And then you start sprinkling in, if you think about this, a pot, like you're boiling something, you're cooking something on the stove, and you start throwing some ingredients in. Wait to this. way to parents, parents overwhelmingly supported school resource officers and public schools in Charlottesville.

That's why we got them. The superintendent and the school board voted yes because they heard from parents that they wanted this. In Charlottesville City schools, there were raging, there were roaming mobs of students, attacking other students, and letting adults into the public schools to fight through side doors. It got so bad that a couple of years, the principal quit. before Thanksgiving at Charlottesville High School, citing mental health concerns. And then teachers organized a staged sickout where they basically struck, did a strike for two days, and public school could not happen.

That was the low point. And then parents got so fed up, they're like, yeah, we need more safety. Now a couple of hundred activists tied to livable Seaville have this back on the agenda item again. What's going to happen is the public school parents that are of affluent or, or have some resource are going to pull kids and say enough with this and prioritize private school even more. The gentrification of education. You've got to see it. Viewers and listeners, thoughts on the feed, Judah Wickhauer, your thoughts,

and then I'll mention comments that are coming in. Anywhere do you want to go, Judah? Yeah. I'm not sure what I go from that, but. No thoughts. from Judah Whitkower. Jason Nobles got comments here. He says, Jerry, be careful that we don't paint the party in control as the victim because the radicals are bullying them. The party is weak at heart. It should stand up to the radicals. That's from Jason Noble. Georgia Gilmer, the first discussions to fix the crossroads on the

downtown mall took place in 2014. The cost was about 120,000. We are now in 2026. The cost of the cost is nearly 900,000. The city could not figure it out for 10 years and is now choosing to do it on the 50 year anniversary of the downtown mall. And props to Oak Valley Custom Heartscapes, a former partner of the I Love Seville Show to getting the contract, they came in significantly lower than the other bids. Hansom Hank Martin, Charlottesville is not failing because its challenges are unique. It is struggling because it is making different choices. than cities that succeeded under the same constraints. Please consider Burlington, Vermont,

Bozeman, Montana, and Madison, Wisconsin as examples. Handsome Hank Martin continues. Bozeman, Burlington, and Madison are communities that learn, these communities learn that an intentional curation beats passive tolerance, that a downtown must be managed like an ecosystem, not left to drift. The growth pressure is not the enemy, rather mismanaged growth is. Charlottesville resists growth without solving scarcity.

Downtowns don't revive organically. They are engineered. Progressivism rarely succeeds without economic realism. From handsome Hank Martin. Very good comment from Hank Martin. Comments, put them in the feed. We'll relay them live on air here. on the I Love Seville Show.

And yes, LinkedIn is up and running for the viewers and listeners that are asking. Deep Throat, number one in the family. He was watching the program. He says, I think the economic development failures are the biggest story. Me too, Deep Throat. He says, while the whole city was held

in the grip of a zoning psychodrama ginned up by the Legal Aid Justice Center, Jordi Yeager and Lurch, Matthew Gilliken, the crusading speech therapist, The city's population and business activists fell into shrinkage. When, by the way, it turned out, the only regulatory barrier to building was not the zoning code, but the total mismanagement of neighborhood development services, which has been described by an insider on the Charlottesville subreddit this month.

Oh, and the Neighborhood Development Services Director got promoted to being a lieutenant under Sam Sanders. that's Jim Tolbert by the way. Deep throat continues, but ultimately if all the job growth and economic activity growth happens in Almaro Green, Louise and Flavana, Charlottesville's effed with a capital F. That's what I said. Number one on my list of the Venn diagram of how we got here

was the lack of economic development strategy. And before COVID, they didn't have to do anything. It's like having a basketball team, when Michael Jordan is in his prime. When Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen are in your prime and you're Phil Jackson, you just don't break the team.

You can add Craig Hodges, you can add BJ Armstrong, you can add Steve Kerr, you can add role players or players in their twilight around Rodman and Pippen and the Bulls will win consecutive championships. That was Charlestville City before COVID.

You had corn caps shawl driving the music scene. You had more restaurants per capita than just about any city in the world, any city in America. You had vineyards and wineries in Almoreal County, breweries in Almorea County, and Charlottesville City. You had eight blocks of downtown Charlottesville, a pedestrian mall, maybe the best in the country at the time. And then you had the University of Virginia. It did not need an economic development strategy. It just had to stay out of the way. And because it was not practicing economic development strategy in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, because it didn't have to do anything. When real economic development was needed, a generational, historical COVID

pandemic that shuttered the city thanks to government overreach and interference, it was so out of practice the Economic Development Office and Charlottesville City Hall that it did not know how to respond. And in ways that other cities responded, economic development-wise, to the COVID pandemic, downtown Stanton did this really well. They created these little parklets where they allowed the restaurants to take the outside space in their downtown and their side streets to set up their tables so people could socially distance while still patronizing businesses.

I have screened on this effing talk show. for nearly 10 effing years about a designated outdoor refreshment area. I mean, G's Louise, City Council, and Sam Sanders, Chris Engel, Jim Tolbert, and City Hall. If you don't realize now more than ever after the success of Tom Tom with a designated outdoor refreshment area, that there should be an eight-block Dora from the Ting Pavilion to the Omni hotel. I'm not saying the side streets. I'm saying the mall proper where folks can buy a beer, a wine, a cocktail at the whiskey jar and then get a second drink at what's on the other side of the mall that's open? I mean, you've got, do they sell alcohol at, at, at, at, uh, Himalaya,

Himalayan fusion? I mean, I'm sure they would if you set up Adora. I mean, why not? I can't even tell you what's a restaurant on the other side of the mall. That's, effing terrifying. There's the nook. Okay, the nook. That's the one that's on the other side of the ball because sky bar's closed. Yeah.

And draft tap room hasn't opened. If Charlottesville does not turn red tape into green tape and create Adora to drive economic development downtown, it's so obvious low-hanging fruit. And people are like,

oh, there's people drinking less. Or this is, this is, This is what the activist community is going to say, okay? This is what the activist community is going to say. It's like, oh, well, well, the homeless guy that's drinking the Colt 45 or the hurricane gets arrested for public intoxication on the downtown mall. But you're going to let Chad and Brad and Karen walk the downtown mall walk the downtown mall with a mojito or a merlo or a $13.00 IPA.

I doubt any. My response to the activist community that says that is, hey, guess what? The homeless man that's pounding the Colt 45 or the Old English or the hurricane, he's not getting arrested right now anyway. He's doing the boozing on the ball right now. And he's stumbling to the Ribana Trail encampment. because the police have no enforcement on any of this because council and city hall have told them to

so let Chad and Brad and their Prius and their Rivians come downtown and drink $9.00 IPAs and $11 Merlose and $12 martinis and mohitos. Chad and Brad. Deep throats. Speaking of the designated outdoor refreshment area, the Dora, Bozeman, Montana has music. on Maine on Thursdays in the summer

and a stretch of Main Street is a designated outdoor refreshment area with food trucks, bars serving out their fronts and it's always packed. Why haven't they done Adora locally viewers and listeners? 120 marker and we've got other topics we need to cover on the show.

Judah Wickhauer. William McChesney's comment. There are four good places for drop off on the downtown mall two cross streets. City Hall and the Omni. City Hall and the Omni are difficult, Cross Streets provide safe, egress, and entry. 100%. And that's why the merchants are so committed to the cross streets,

Mayor of McIntyre, William McChesney. You're 100% right. 100% right. Hank Martin makes the point that when Injik left downtown in the summer of 2001, the Charlottesville City Council should have been strategically planning at that point. Now another major business is about to vacate while playing catch-up is going to be difficult to say the least. even more color to this. How about former Charlottesville counselor, Mike Signer, the former mayor, who was then

the in-house council of Willow Tree Apps, negotiating the exit of Willow Tree apps that had hundreds of employees from the downtown mall to Almore County and its current location in Will and Mills. That happened right before COVID. Right before COVID, a sitting counselor, the former mayor, was negotiating a deal with Almorel County to take his technology company where he was in-house council into county limits and away from Charlottesville, the city he was representing. Only in Charlottesville does something like that where the mayor negotiates a deal

with the neighboring jurisdiction to take his company out of the city that he represents. Only in Charlottesville. Crazy. We'll give some love to the best. of the best, Charlottesville Sanitary Supply. We were with the Vermillion gentleman this morning, Andrew Vermillion and John Vermillion. The Vermilions are five generations strong in Amarro County and their business, Charlestville Sanitary Supply is 62 years consecutive in operation. They have a

sister company called Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company that is your consultant, your concierge for anything swimming pool related, including in-ground pool construction, above-ground pool construction, fiberglass pools, water testing, swimming pool covers, swimming pool robots, swimming pool shade. Charlottesville Sanitary Supply and Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company, and they have a new division launching very soon as they become even more vertically integrated infusing services into the commodities that they sell online and on their shelves.

We're excited to work with them in this push to vertical integration. Next topic, storyline. Judah Woodcarrow, what do you have? I believe we've got Cheryl. Sherry, you mean? Sherry, yeah. Sherry Taylor, Z-95, yeah. Z-95.1.

18 years, she's been on Z-95, one of the most significant radio stations from a reach standpoint. And this Friday is her last day on air. 18 years. And Z-95 plays the type of consistent, predictable, consistent, popular music that you hear in dentist offices and in doctor offices and in professional settings. And Sherry Taylor was the face, the voice of Z-95 for much of this time. Friday is her last day. I want, Sherry Taylor, if you watch this, I want to commend you on a fabulous career. I want to commend you of getting out of radio.

before the industry crumbles around you because it's crumbling now and everyone sees it. I want to commend you for professionalism, for pep and positivity, and for making mornings in the car or at work, awesome. The day, awesome. She will be missed on the radio dial.

And she's going to go to the way of Vinnie Kice. She'll go to the way of Marty Huttloff, the way of Sharon Gregory, of Norm Spouse, of Brian McKenzie, icons locally that have been priced out or job insecure because of the fragility of legacy media and how podcasting and social media and digital media is just eating legacy media's lunch and cannibalizing their advertising dollars.

This is an indicator, a foreshadowing indicator of what's to come. Next topic, what do you got? Judea Whitcower. Next up, we've got UVA student activists. You set the storyline for this in about 90 seconds. A group called the UVA dissenters has been urging UVA students to, they call themselves a collective

of anti-imperialist organizers. They've been urging its members to spam register for a center for a center for politics event with Jason Miaris, except they have no intention of actually attending. So the goal is just to screw up the numbers, flood the registration system with fake signups in order to block actual people that would like to go. And, I mean, if it's not obvious that most of what that entails is against UVA's policies, conflicts with UVA's statement on free expression and free inquiry,

It breaches their standards of conduct, and it constitutes an honor code violation. But, of course, maybe none of that matters anymore, as long as someone is going to say something that you might possibly disagree with. The University of Virginia has a student activist group who openly monikers themselves to dissenters that is using social media to organize, strategize, and galvanized against ideologies they don't stand for. Whether it's Russia, Ukraine, whether it's Palestine, Israel, Iran, whether it's Donald Trump, whether it's Virginia Republicans, Jason Mayari's, Wintam Earl Sears, whether it's housing

in Charlottesville City, collective bargaining, Scott Beardsley, the Board of Visitors, Glenn Yonkin, they are running as if they were wolves in Yellowstone unchecked, looking for the prey that they're going to hunt and mow down for that dinner that evening. And the University of Virginia allows them to do this. It's wild. We live in a time where you can be an 18, 19, 19, 20, 21, or 22 year old kid and run completely unchecked. and pursue the agenda of the former Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia and implode, attack, nuisance, any events that he has on the calendar. And the University of Virginia will do nothing about it. It's wild. Only in Charleston.

Next headline. And before we go to the next headline, we'll give some love to state. Stanley Martin Holmes. A smart move. If a move has been on your mind lately, take a look at Stanley Martin Holmes. They're building in some great Charlottesville area locations with new homes designed for how people live today. Stanley Martin Holmes, New homes, local living. Charlottesville Living starts here with Stanley Martin Holmes, which builds thoughtfully designed homes and sought after neighborhoods across the region. Next headline, Judah Wickcaro. What do you got? Dominion Energy bills outpacing inflation. This is absolute insanity. You want to know, I'm going to put this in a nutshell here. Okay, you're ready for this, viewers and listeners?

One of the top contributors to politicians and their campaigns in the Commonwealth is Dominion Energy. Dominion Energy handpicks politicians and helps them get into office by funding their campaigns. Then when the politicians get into office that are funded by Dominion Energy, they are struck with this conflict of interest. Do I use my office for actual good by standing up for Virginians and what is a shakedown extortion attempt by a monopolistic energy provider, Dominion? Or do I stay quiet because that monopoly was one of the key contributors. to my campaign that got me here, and I know I need their money if I'm going to win a re-election bid.

You open up the envelope or you look at the digital statement that hits your inbox, and you're scratching your head. The studio I have is 700 square feet. And my energy bill is $300 a month, and it's 2x what it was, this time last year.

And what are these strange ones? light items that I don't recognize. Yeah. And now we find out the energy cost is out placing inflation. And a microcosm of this, a microcosm of the back room, wheeling and dealing, is the second term for Carlos Brown, the president of Dominion Energy as a UVA Board of Visitors rector. First Ralph Northrum appointed Carlos Brown to the UVA Board of Visitors. Now Abigail Spamberger has appointed Carlos Brown to the UVA Board of Visitors, and he's the president of Dominion Energy.

Make it make sense. Why does the politician not stand up for the little guy, as opposed to cowtailing? Cowtowing. I'm going to do it every time. I know. Cowtowing to donors. That's what's wrong right there with what we got going on. With politics in general.

It's a rat race to keep up. And now that rat race to keep up is your grocery bill, your gas bill, and your energy bill. Next headline, Judah Wickhauer. John Blair's got a comment. Let me get John's comment on screen. In terms of economic development, I think there is also a need for a large landowner developer to redevelop a serious space for economic activity. Look at Silverman and the Lexus building.

The former Coke building was also developed by Red Light. I think an interesting question is this. Where's the next space for a big redevelopment project? Great question. I mean, how about the right junkyard? The right family? And I want their junkyard to run forever. That's a family-owned business, the right family in their junkyard.

But that junkyard that you see over there near Belmont, near Beer Run, and Woolen Mills, Hall, Bogwaller? How many, I mean, good God. That is one of the most pride pieces of developable land that's undeveloped in the entire city. How about Ix Park?

How about the city yard? Thank you for the comment, John Blair. Is the basketball, is the superstar won the next one? Let's see, Lame Chouacna. That's your headline. Malcolm Brogden.

Set the stage for, La Mieto Ocana. La Mieto Ocana recently moved out of their high street spot into the old Domino's spot. And I believe tomorrow they are ready to open a new part of their legacy, which is, I believe it's, what's the name? Anyways, they're opening a brunch and lunch spot.

and I'm excited because they are a, they've always been a great spot. They've always been a wonderful place for tacos, probably some of the best tacos in Charlottesville, and I'm excited to support them. La Mietro Kana either has the recipe for good food dialed in, and apparently they have the strategy for opening locations dialed in. It's Monarchas Cafe. La Mieto Kana opening the headquarters, the new headquarters in the old Domino's location,

now a brunch spot, a hop-skip, and a jump away. Props to them. I hope they're uberly successful. And the final talking point on the show is tied to Malcolm Brogden. He's been named a strategic advisor of Ryan Odom's basketball team. He's made more than $133 million in his career as an NBA player, Malcolm Brogden, the former UVA All-American, ACC player of the year and defensive player of the year. This Malcolm Brogden storyline is awesome.

I hope he returns with his beautiful wife and children and calls Charlottesville home, buys a house, and contributes to the economic vitality of the community because goodness the city needs it. It got me thinking about the superstars that are calling UVA that are calling the Charlestville area home that formerly wore a UVA uniform. Chris Long, Heath Miller, Sean Singletary, Jeff Gaffney, Barry Parkhill, Travis Watson, Bobby Stokes, Ricky Stokes, Andrew Minton, Joe Reed, Tyler Wilson, Tansji Soroyo, Jimmy Miller, Amad Hawkins, former UVA superstars that are calling the Charlestville area home. This list is just the tip of the iceberg.

Chris Long, Heath Miller, Sean Singletary, Jeff Gaffney, Barry Park Hill, Travis Watson, Bobby Stokes, Ricky Stokes, Andrew Minton, Joe Reed, Tyler Wilson, Tungy, Jimmy Miller, Amad Hawkins. That's just with the help of the viewer and listener. These guys can live, most of these guys can live whatever they want. And they choose to call the Charlottesville area home. That says something about what we got here.

All right, that's the talk show. It's Tuesday in downtown Charlottesville. His name is Judah Wickhauer. My name is Jerry Miller, and this is the water cooler of content conversation. So long, everybody.