The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - City Hall Investigating City Attorney Complaint; City Attorney On "Indefinite Leave" Since April

Episode Date: August 19, 2024

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Good Monday afternoon, guys. I'm Jerry Miller, and thank you kindly for joining us on the I Love Seville Show. It's great to be with you on a glorious and gorgeous afternoon in downtown Charlottesville. A lot to cover on the program. We will talk a city attorney who has been on indefinite leave in Charlottesville, Virginia since early April. I'm going to give props again to Charlottesville tomorrow. Assistant City Attorney Ryan Franklin was also placed on leave. Franklin is no longer employed by the city. However, city attorney Jacob Stroman is currently employed, although not working, and still collecting a paycheck.

Charlottesville Tomorrow broke this story. I find myself giving props to the nonprofit news outlet a second, what is this, like three or four weeks in a row? I mean, they break the news on the Carleton Mobile Home Park, Charlottesville Tomorrow, covered it extremely well. I would not be surprised if Charlottesville Tomorrow wins a Virginia Press Award on how they've covered the Carleton Mobile Home Park transaction with Habitat for Humanity and PHA coming in on the bottom of the ninth inning to purchase the mobile home park. They did a fantastic job, Charlottesville Tomorrow, of covering the MACA, shutting down its free

Head Start child care centers, and now they're breaking news when it comes to a city attorney being on indefinite leave. I ask this question for you, the viewer and listener. How much institutional memory was missing and how much value was absent during key negotiations and key business dealings while the city attorney was on indefinite leave? Specifically, Mark Brown, the Water Street parking garage, a sweetheart of a deal for the real estate mogul Mark Brown. Without a city attorney in place, how much of an upper hand did Mark Brown and his high dollar attorneys have in their Charlottesville parking wars negotiations.

That topic on today's show. Let us know if YouTube is live. Jay Dumbs, multiple folks are asking about YouTube. It's live. We're live on YouTube? Fantastic. Thank you very much, YouTube. Thank you very much, Judah. I do see it live. I want to talk on today's program

the University of Virginia restricting access to the hill this and the Cavalier Daily Cavalier Daily, job well done props to the Cavalier Daily they offered us tremendous fodder last week with their Freedom of Information Act requests when it comes to UVA salaries Craig Kent, Jim Ryan, Tony Bennett,

Tony Elliott, Teresa Sullivan, their salary FOIA story was fantastic. Today, they got some commentary from one of their columnists, Ben Istovan, who highlights in the Cavalier Daily that Virginia Athletics is limiting access to the Hill, which further highlights the decline of UVA football. Single game ticket holders will not have access to an institution when it comes to UVA football, and that's sitting on a grassy knoll while watching the orange and blue on the gridiron. This, a microcosm of how far Virginia football has fallen. If you remember, the hill was the access or gateway point

for Virginia Tech Hokie fans. When the Hokies visited Scott Stadium, the last two outings, Virginia was clobbered by the Hokies the last two times Virginia Tech visited Scott Stadium. And at the end of those ballgames, in particular at the end of a 38-point slobber knocker. Last year, Virginia Tech just humiliated the Wahoos. The hill was the gateway for Virginia Tech fans to rush the field and celebrate on the 50-yard line, much to the disappointment of Wahoo Nation.

Remember, last year, this led to the sprinkler operator turning the sprinklers on at the end of the Virginia Tech game to soak Hokie fans who were stomping on the Virginia logo at the 50-yard line, celebrating a 38-point win. We'll talk about that today. I also want to highlight on today's program, Jay Punn rebranding a Thai restaurant at Dairy Market. John Blair passed along a headline that I think is absolutely fantastic. Minneapolis, a news outlet in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is doubling down on the newspaper business. I'm super excited for this.

I hope this is something that catches fire with other news outlets. And also on the program, we'll talk about Joe Harris retiring, and we'll talk about the mail in the Commonwealth of Virginia improving, improving slowly. Remember, we were dead last in efficiency

when it came to the United States Post Office delivering mail to our mailboxes in the Commonwealth. Now we are fourth to last out of 50 states. We are fourth to last. A lot to cover onto the program. A couple of items that did not make the headlines today. Charlottesville's middle school has a brand new mascot. That mascot is called the Young Knights. The Young Knights, the newly minted mascot of Charlottesville Middle School. Judah, we'll give some love to Pro Renata, our partners in Crozet, our partners in downtown Stanton, our partners in the Shenandoah Valley. Pro Renata, not only brewing great beer with a brand new brewmaster,

not only family friendly, not only fantastic food, but they have music venues at their fingertips of varying sizes, and they're creating almost a farm system for musicians to cut their chops and show their talents. Pro Renata has become the Disney world of Crozet, downtown Stanton, and the Shenandoah Valley. John Shabe and his team at Pro Renata opening the books to former UVA football star Joe Reed as a partner in the business. And a guy who you will see on Sundays at the Crozet location

as almost a front man for the National Football League and what is going to become one of the best sports bars, Crozet Pro Renata, in Central Virginia, period. Judah Wickower, the middle school, the Young Knights. What do you make of the nickname of the newly minted Charlottesville Middle School? The Young Knights. Second part of that question is, when does the moniker or the mascot of the upper school, the Black Knights, come under the microscope or does it at all? Well, first question, it sounds by all accounts that

the Young Knights is a generally liked change. I think they're obviously trying to tie the two schools together after Buford changed its name to Charlottesville Middle School. So it's more closely aligned with Charlottesville High School. Now they've got the Young Knights and the Black Knights. I think it's a great move. Yeah. I think it's a great move.

I think it combines the brands. It does probably what they intended it to do, which is get kids in middle school feeling like they're a part of the overall Charlottesville school. 100%. And I don't think they're going to make the overall charlottesville school 100 and uh you know i don't think they're going to make any change to the black knights i could be wrong but no i i agree the black knights um in fact a moniker uh not tied to the race or or or color of skin

in fact the black knights, if memory serves correct, tied to the type of wardrobe or material the actual horseback riding knight was wearing. I thought your take was right on point. Getting the middle school that's recently been rebranded Charlottesville Middle School to feel a sense of pride

and alliance and allegiance and alignment with the high school is great. Having the young men and young women in the middle school feel compelled to participate with after school activities like sports because they will be young knights, I hope encourages engagement and participation. 100%. I think this is a great move by Charlottesville High School. I find myself two weeks in a row complimenting Charlottesville Public Schools at the start of the school year.

Last week, we were complimenting Charlottesville Public Schools with the new security measures, key fobbing in and out of doors, the digital e-hall pass. We worried if that digital e-hall pass would actually encourage students to have their phones on. And we speculated how that would be used when Yunkin's order, January, the 1st of January, of no cell phones on public schools, how that would play out. I read an article that seemed to suggest that the e-hall passes are connected to student Chromebooks, to which I have a question. Do all students get a Chromebook when they're in school? I hope not.

I don't know the answer to that. But then that leads me to the question, if your Chromebook is how you get the e-hall pass, does that mean you have to carry the Chromebook around with you when you get a hall pass? We do know that if you go to a sporting event at Charlottesville High School this fall that has an attendance that's more than 250 people, you will be walking through metal detectors. I ask the obvious question, if you're walking through metal detectors at sporting events that are more than 250 people, why would you not walk through metal detectors in and out of school that have thousands of people? We save that topic for another day. The lead of today's show is the, how would you characterize the city attorney being on indefinite leave since early April?

How would you characterize the assistant city attorney, what appears to be an encouraged pink slip, encouraged quitting, how would you characterize a Charlottesville, Virginia municipality operating without a city attorney? Judah Wickauer. I think I would call it the continuing mystery of how Charlottesville manages to run a government with all the insanity that goes on. I will say the best city attorney we've ever had, a viewer of this fine and fair talk show, Mr. John Blair. John Blair, we were unfortunate, the city, not to have John Blair be named city manager of Charlottesville.

I think John Blair would have been a phenomenal city manager of Charlottesville, Virginia. I think John Blair would be a phenomenal county executive of Albemarle. He's doing incredible work in Stanton right now, John Blair. John Blair was the interim city manager, if you remember, some years ago. And now he is Stanton's gain and Charlottesville's loss. Right now, the city is operating and has some time without a hired attorney. Charlottesville Tomorrow has this story.

I find weeks in a row, we're giving Charlottesville Tomorrow, the nonprofit news outlet, props and accolades. And you're seeing Charlottesville Tomorrow, the non-profit news outlet, props and accolades. And you're seeing Charlottesville Tomorrow pivot its model back to reporting hard news. I want to encourage Charlottesville Tomorrow. I've been told they watch

or listen to some of our programming, especially when it relates to them. If you hear this, I'm incredibly impressed with what you have done of late. I agree. There are a lot of local news stories that are like three sparse paragraphs. The TV stations in particular. And that is certainly not true of Seville Tomorrow.

Seville Tomorrow takes deep dives on stories and does follow-up in-depth coverage. They are robust. And I appreciate the, like you said,up in-depth coverage. They are robust. And I appreciate the, like you said, the in-depth coverage. Please, Charlottesville, tomorrow, continue down the road of hard news. Please continue down the road of government reporting, land use, zoning, and any kind of business reporting out there. Please. Development, please. You want to set the stage on a story that broke late last week. The headline, emails show Charlottesville is investigating an unspecified complaint regarding its city attorney.

The lead and first few paragraphs of the Charlottesville Tomorrow in Judah. I'll pass it on to you. Charlottesville city attorney Jacob Stroman has been on administrative leave since early April. He wasn't, however, the only one. Assistant City Attorney Ryan Franklin was placed on leave alongside him in response to an investigation into an unspecified complaint.

Emails obtained by Charlottesville Tomorrow through a public records request showed. Since then, Franklin's employment with the city was ended. Afton Schneider, a spokesman for the city of Charlottesville, said, Stroman remains on an indefinite leave. The details of the complaint that launched the investigation are unknown. City spokespeople have consistently declined to comment on the case, saying it's a personnel matter. Stroman didn't return Charlottesville Tomorrow's request for comment. Franklin has confirmed that he no longer works for the city.

This is a very interesting turn of events. Yeah. It has me asking a number of questions. Judah Wittkower, what kind of questions come to mind to you, and what are your thoughts of this storyline? I mean, it's kind of nuts. The fact that they've put two guys on leave, one of them has since left the attorney's office.

The other is, one would assume, still on paid leave more than six months later. I wouldn't say six months later early april okay what are we talking about four or five months there still a nice chunk of time 60 day leave was is the the average or we're usually what you would expect and it's we've been more than 100 days now. I mean, are we giving this guy a paid vacation? They highlight commentary from David Supper, a professor at Georgetown Law, who focuses on administrative and local government law. He highlights 60 days, the normal, indefinite leave. The current city attorney has been on leave since early April.

As Judah's highlighted, that's four-plus months of taxpayer dollars. We're, in fact, paying not only this city attorney, but we're paying a private law firm, an independent law firm, to represent the city of Charlottesville as well. A law firm that's been in our news cycle as well. The Police Civilian Review Board. You want to highlight that in a nutshell? I mean, that's just more insanity. We've got the Civilian Oversight Board, and they've tried to FOIA information from the city using an attorney, which it turns out the city is also using to, I guess, deny the FOIA request. You really can't make this stuff up.

Cannot make this stuff up. Not having a city attorney when negotiating with someone like Mark Brown, the parking czar of the city of Charlottesville. A man who has control of the Water Street parking garage and has the city of Charlottesville by the shortened curlies, by the cojones. Mark Brown will be paid for decades because he understood the concept of assemblage. He understood the concept of condo law. And he understood the concept of doing a little of professional bullying to purchase control of a condo association on Water Street. Now the city does not have much it can do

with the parking garage on Water Street that is paramount to the success of the downtown mall. The city probably should have built the parking garage where the Guadalajara and the Lucky 7 is on Market Street, which would have given it more options and would certainly have watered down the appraised value of the Water Street Garage. By having an additional garage on the market available for parking, more options of parking devalues the parking that's out there. Basic supply

and demand. We had Mark Brown negotiating a deal backed by $5.95, $6.95 an hour attorneys that are at his beck and call, where the city is negotiating the deal with the city attorney on indefinite leave. This is, as Sam Sanders wrote in an email to Charlottesville City Council, this is not good, but this too shall pass. We as taxpayers, I believe, have a right to know what's going on. We as taxpayers, I believe, have a right to know what that first offer was on the mobile home park before the city offered a bridge loan to Habitat for Humanity and Piedmont Housing Alliance to purchase the mobile home park. And why I believe we have a right to know those things is it's because our dollars that are funding these efforts. It's not a good look you have to ask this question you have the city of charlottesville

that is under 50 000 in population people wise you have albemarle county that is what three times that albemarle county population 1144,534 in 2022. So you're talking two and a half times the size of the city of Charlottesville. Why does the brouhaha and the drama and the soap opera not happen in Albemarle County that's two and a half times the size of the city of Charlottesville? I asked the question in almost as hyperbole, tongue-in-cheek, but are there some gases coming out from under the 10.2 square miles

that make the folks just Looney Tunes? I sincerely want to know that. Rob Neal and Bill McChesney, welcome to the program. Deep Throat, number one in the family. He says this, if you want to get his photo on screen. The parking garage is absolutely mystifying. The city has never explained why it could not just sell the condo interest to get out of that portion of exposure to the ground lease,

which is an indirect exposure. Only via the condo agreement, not based on a direct contract, between the Charlottesville parking center and the city unlike the lease of cpc's parking spaces not getting out of that deep throat a man sophisticated with stuff like this has highlighted a potential escape valve for the city when it comes to mark brown having the city in a vice and that escape valve was not pursued by the city that's the point he's making. There may be a city attorney's job opening up.

Who would want that job? I'm not going to go there. Who would want that job right now? Since we lost Mr. Blair to Stanton, it's been a revolving door. Just think about it. One city attorney was named in a lawsuit, Lisa Robertson, by the former police chief Brackney, claiming that, Brackney claimed that she was fired because she was a black female,

named a bunch of people. Some of those people named in the lawsuit, the city attorney. Now you got one city attorney under investigation and on indefinite leave. And, and an assistant who,

who's already left. Who peaced out. I mean, that's... Was he asked, did he peace out on his own, or was he asked to find employment elsewhere? Did he get pay on indefinite leave, the assistant city attorney, or was he expected to take indefinite leave without pay?

Those are good questions. And a follow-up question is this. When you're paying somebody top dollar, I mean, this is a deep six-figure job. You're paying someone top dollar to not work for four plus months. Are you doing that to dot the I's and cross the T's so you don't get sued by said person?

I mean, is that a fair question? sad person? I mean, is that a fair question? I mean, I don't know. I don't know. Barr's website, the Virginia State Barr website shows both the city attorney and assistant city attorney in good standing, and neither have been formally suspended or disciplined.

And that's as curious as the rest of this. Franklin's left, but apparently he's still in good standing. I mean, you would think that if this was something so serious that both the city attorney and assistant attorney were placed on leave, you would think that something would have happened when one of them left. I don't know. Just, what does it add up to? I think that's the big question. What is going on? Yeah. Follow the story closely.

I would expect more reporting from Charlottesville tomorrow, who's been doing fantastic work. I would love to see Haw Spencer of the Daily Progress cover this story with the connections and institutional memory he has. He's the crimes and courts reporter, Hall Spencer. I'm not sure his beat trickles into City Hall. I hope it does. Hall Spencer is the guy that could cover this story extremely well. Next headline, Judah Wittkower.

Please let us know. Next headline, Judah Wickauer. Please let us know. Next headline. Let's see. You've already talked about UVA restricting access to the Hill. Put that headline on screen. I've got to go deeper on that one. If you want to go on a one-shot with me, if you don't know about the Hill, is this a topic that I should cover, or do you want to throw some color into this topic?

Yeah, you should probably cover it. This from the Cavalier Daily, one of its columnists. UVA is restricting access to the Hill for single-game ticket holders. This is a sad state of affairs. The hill is where UVA students watch the games. The hill is where a boatload of single game ticket holders choose to go to enjoy revelry and Wahoo Nation hopefully getting a victory. And I know victories have been few and far between of late. The reason UVA is restricting access to single-game ticket holders, one would assume, although it has not been identified, the Hill has been the gateway for opposing fan bases to storm the field when posting victory at Scott Stadium. We unfortunately saw this in horrible form

the last game of last year when Virginia Tech, a 38-point hammering of UVA and Scott Stadium, the Hokie fan base, much of them rushed the field and celebrated all over the gridiron. This led to the sprinkler operator of Scott Stadium turning the sprinklers on and drenching the Hokie fans that were stomping and dancing and celebrating on the 50-yard line and beyond. Restricting access to the Hill for single-game ticket holders shows how far this proud program has fallen. In the 80s, 90s, and the early portion of the Algrove era, Virginia routinely seven, eight, and nine win seasons, routinely contending for bowl games, routinely posting victories in bowl games. Since the Algro era, the back half, until today, Virginia football has become the laughingstock of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

In fact, the Hoos picked to finish second to last in the preseason by media, Stanford in the cellar, UVA second to last in the preseason by media. Stanford in the cellar, UVA second to last. Tony Elliott, whether he wants to admit this or not, is on very shaky ground. Virginia better figure out a way to sniff bowl game. I think it has a chance to start the season 4-1, 5-0. Is that hopeful optimism? Probably so. But if they don't go 4-1, 3-2 at worst in the first

five games to start the season, this is going to be a nightmarish campaign because the back half of the schedule is effing brutal. Brutal. The story today, single game ticket holders cannot enjoy the hill at Scott Stadium anymore. Things need to change. The atmosphere at Scott Stadium is an atmosphere of 60% capacity on a good day. Wins in the Atlantic Coast Conference are few and far between for this football program. If the team does not start producing results, you have to wonder if apathy is a best-case scenario for Virginia football. The next stage is revolt and mutiny of the program,

and no one wants that. If you're tuning into the program, the Hill now restricted the single-game ticket holders. John Blair has this comment. You bring up the most of UVA moves regarding football. After the curb stomping, the sprinklers coming on, and the greater college football community actually applauded it. People laughed and thought it was funny. And what does UVA do? It has the groundskeeper tweet a mea culpa. There is a reason that the program isn't taken seriously

regarding football. And here's a link to the groundskeeper saying I'm sorry to the fans after he drenched the arch rival with water. I thought it was amazing. Virginia Tech fans are stomping the field after beating Virginia by 38 points, and the guy has the clever creativity to turn on the sprinklers to drench them. I think it's genius.

Carla Williams in the athletic department, not so fast, my friends. Not so fast, my friends. The next headline is one that was passed on to us by John Blair. This is one I would love to see gain traction. A Minneapolis paper is betting big on news is the headline. In a rare move for the embattled newspaper industry, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis is rebranding as the Minneapolis Star Tribune and expanding its coverage statewide. Under billionaire owner Glenn Taylor and CEO Steve Grove, the paper will hire reporters across Minnesota and boost its digital presence with a goal of tripling subscriptions over the next five years. The expansion includes new local beats and content sharing with hyper-local news outlets

and aims to capitalize on state pride and civic participation, running counter to the trend of newspapers reducing coverage and focusing on cost-cutting move. Glenn Taylor, a heavy hitter, ladies and gentlemen. I believe the owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Glenn Taylor. Let me confirm that. Yeah, majority owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Minnesota links of the Women's National Basketball Association. In fact, Glenn Taylor currently involved in an active lawsuit with former baseball great Alex Rodriguez over purchasing majority control of the Timberwolves. Alex Rodriguez and his ownership group missed a payment window to purchase the Timberwolves, and now Glenn Taylor is clawing the Wolves back, in particular because they've gained significantly more value with the success of Anthony Edwards and a young Timberwolves roster going deep in the postseason.

I'm a huge NBA fan. Randy O'Neill, thank you for watching the show. This is the story, though. The Minnesota top newspaper is doubling down on news and rebranding itself the Minnesota Star Tribune. I would love to see something like this from the Richmond Times Dispatch. I was having this conversation with Deep Throat and DM Capacity. He made this point, and I completely agreed with him. How are we not surprised that someone has not tried to purchase the daily progress from Lee Enterprises? Just

the progress. You're one of these Sonia Smith types that is donating hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of a lifetime to political campaigns funding the likes of Sally Hudson and Amy Laufer and Katrina Coulson and a Kyle Walker, right? Wouldn't it be nice to also have a newspaper at your disposal? If you're her husband, Michael Bills, and you're a billionaire, purchasing the Daily Progress for a handful of millions of dollars is like you and I going to the Market Street market next door and getting a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit and a Snickers bar. And having a paper like the Daily Progress at your disposal

running content on the candidates that you're funding would seem like fantastic political strategy to me. You could buy the daily progress, a distressed asset from Lee enterprise. That's about to crumble for pennies on the dollar. You could run the daily progress almost as a loss leader or as a clout builder for your candidates and your personal platforms. You can write off the losses while championing the candidates you want to see get to victory circle, victory lane. Are we going to be seeing more of that in the future? People buying up newspapers?

I mean, is there a business model that works for newspapers now? Unless the business model is it's a mouthpiece to get my candidates in office where they will then owe me favors once they're in power. That's what I'm saying. Maybe that's the advertising revenue and I use it in air quotes. Maybe the ad revenue is in car dealerships and pizza parlors and pizza delivery and car washes and retail services. Maybe it's I'm going to lose money today to get candidates into office tomorrow so they owe me favors the following day. Maybe that's the return on investment. Yeah, could be.

How much would the Daily Progress sell for? You've got a subscription of under 5,000 people. Yeah. Pennies on the dollar. No doubt. You're buying something that's hemorrhaging, right? Yeah. Especially if you choose to run it as a one-off paper, as its own entity. The only thing that's keeping a lot of the Lee Enterprises papers up and running is they're selling an ad across all their newspapers, all their online outlets. So they have account executives going to a national or regional advertiser and saying, we'll put your call to action message

on in Roanoke and Richmond and Waynesboro and Stanton and Lynchburg across the board, one-stop shop. If you choose to buy the daily progress and siphon it from the parent company, you don't have those economies of scale. So you're basically buying a dying model, running it by itself. Minneapolis, good for you guys. I hope more of that is a reality. Time will tell. Next headline, Judah Wickauer. Mail. You set the stage for this one. I had, Judah Wickauer. Mail.

You set the stage for this one. I had no idea we were dead last. We've been moving pretty quickly up the run. Is moving from dead last in the free union to 46 in the free union moving quickly? I mean, in the first few months of 2024, postal service in Virginia had a 66% on-time delivery rate for first-class mail. In the spring, that increased to 77%. And the most recent charts are showing us at 78%. So we are getting better pretty quickly. But, yeah, it may take a while before we start bypassing 10th, 5th, 1st place.

The unfortunate thing, I was having this conversation with my parents, the unfortunate thing is who this impacts is it impacts the elderly and those on the financial margin the most. Yeah, people that are waiting for bills in the mail. For snail mail. That's who gets impacted by this the most.

Yeah. Fourth to last in America for mail delivery and efficiency, the Commonwealth of Virginia. Yeah, it's crazy. That's bananas. We're seeing the mail before our very eyes go the way of the yellow pages morse code the carrier pension and the dial-up telephone with the long cord in the kitchen that we fought

to use as kids around dinner time you think we're not going to have mail soon every bank okay you take when you go on to your online banking how, okay, you take, when you go onto your online banking, how many times do you get prompt when you log into online banking to go paperless with your statements? How many times do you get propped by Xfinity or Dominion or Verizon or all your bill payers to get a digital e-bill instead of a paper bill? If you're in a condo association in an HOA, the associations want to digitally submit the bills now to save on postage and to get their payments quicker and faster because they know the mail is unreliable.

Not to mention to save money. And to save money. We'll go into a cashless society, a mailless society, and we're going to get deeper down the digital rabbit hole where control over our daily lives will be more easily accessible. That's why I was reading online over a data breach. Did you read that story? I'm not sure. Two billion plus, two billion with a B, plus people had their data breached, including social security numbers,

over the last few days. Hackers, a group, targeted one of those background check companies, and 2 billion people had their data breached and posted in the dark web. They were looking to sell the hacking group the data for $3.5 million to whoever wanted 2 billion plus social security numbers and other personal information. The digital realm is not all it's cracked up to be. No, definitely not. Bill McChesney says this,

on the Young Knights, when Charlottesville High School came into being, they left Lane. They decided to keep the Black Knights mascot. That was the mascot when Tommy Theodos orchestrated the streak with the football program. Tommy Theodos, the namesake of the stadium that Charlottesville football team plays within.

All right, last headline. What is it? There's two more, right? J-Pon rebranding? Yeah. You got the stage on this one in the lower third? Yeah, let's see. I think this is a small move by J-Pon. Kevin Higgins says greenwood mail is delivered one or two times a week and is sometimes months behind i got christmas cards in march if i subscribe to the daily progress my paper would be weeks old in greenwood that's a thriving suburb of crozet virginia greenwood that's insane i mean that's unexcusable. Unexcusable. We talked to our friends that listen to the talk show on mail routes, and they said it's out of our control.

They won't hire enough people. They won't approve overtime. How can we continue to work for free to deliver mail? We know it's critical for people to receive it, but we can't work for free. Yeah. I can't blame them. No doubt. Jay Punn story, please. Jay Punn, the owner of Chim Street and Chim at Dairy Market is merging with a company

called Payway. And it seems like a great move. It's going to help, I think, what did they say, standardize? It's basically like... He's looking to scale. Yeah. He's looking to scale further outside of our city and in the country as a whole. And this will add consistency at a national level.

And I believe they've got a new chef as well for the dairy market location. Congratulations to Jay Punn. Jay Punn, also a music teacher at, man, what is the school right over there? You're talking about Renaissance? Is that the Renaissance School? I think so. Right around us. He's a music teacher over there.

I've seen him often on the downtown mall with his music students, playing live music on the mall, much to our enjoyment. Yeah. Jay Punn, the founder of Chim and Fifth Street Station, Chim and Dairy Market, and I believe a partner in Thai Noodle House behind Stonefield.

Man knows Thai food like the Pope knows holy water. He's doing a business merger to scale the brand. Congratulations. I want everyone to have success. Give us the last headline. Is that Joe Harris? Yep. Joe Harris, the UVA sharpshooter, is retiring from the NBA, ladies and gentlemen.

This guy, one of the best three-point shooters at one time in the National Basketball Association. Retires after a 10-year career with the New Jersey Nets, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Detroit Pistons. He announced his retirement on social media. He will go down as one of the most efficient three-point shooters in league history. He retires with the fifth highest three-point shooting percentage in league history, 43.5% from beyond the arc. He finished his career with averages of 10.3 points a game and three rebounds a game. He shot 48% from the field. Harris was selected 33rd overall by the Cavaliers in the 2014 draft after spending four years right here in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia. A two-time All-ACC performer, Joe Harris, named to the All-ACC tournament team in 2014.

He earned an ACC tournament MVP the same year. In his senior season, Joe Harris helped lead Virginia to a 30-7 overall record. The Hoos were the ACC conference champions and made it to the Sweet 16 before losing to Michigan State. Joe Harris, a critical component to many Brooklyn Nets teams. 10 years, a lot of money made, and a fantastic representative of the University of Virginia, Joe Harris. We commend and we salute you. Judah Whauer, any closing thoughts? Congratulations on 10 good years.

There we go. That's true. 10 years. Congratulations. At the peak of his profession. There you go. You did a good job today. Thank you. Judah Wickhauer, Jerry Miller, The I Love Seville Show,

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