The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Unions Are Why CVille Needs 2¢ Tax Increase; CVille's Top Challenges: Homeless, Economy, Budget

Episode Date: March 17, 2026

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Tiny greenies. Hammer that like button. Do us the favor. Hammer the like button. Welcome to the I Love Seville Show, guys. My name is Jerry Miller, and thank you for joining us on a Tuesday. It's great to connect with you guys through the I Love Seville Network on our flagship show. The Water Cooler of Content and Conversation, where the community gathers to share ideas and have a talk.

Monday through Friday, 1230 to 1.30. A lot we're going to cover on the program. Sam Sanders yesterday. Last night, yesterday evening, in council chambers before a sparsely attended council meeting, at least in person, indicated to the community that we may need to raise the real estate tax rate two cents in the city of Charlottesville because of collective bargaining and the unionization of city employees. We're talking police officers, teachers, fire rescue, bus drivers, you name it. Sam Sanders was very quick to point out, look, I'm not stigmatizing or speaking in any negative capacity.

Let's call it throwing shade. I'm not throwing shade against the unions. It was counsel who approved the unions, the teacher union, fire rescue, transportation unions. Council approved it. Now it's up to me as someone who answers to counsel and works for counsel to figure out how to fund it. It was very clear about that. Props to Sam Sanders. How you carry yourself in the meeting yesterday, I watched it online from afar.

City Manager Sanders, I was very impressed. I'm frankly very impressed with you, sir. We kid with you because we care, and we understand that you are one of the good guys in government. I seriously mean that. And I'm now taking a step back from calling the Free Bridge encampant Sam Sandersville. Do you just help me come to that realization? that this homeless encampment is not Sam Sandersville. This homeless encampment should be much more Wanville than Sam Sandersville.

And even Judah pushes back a little bit on that. I think we might have had some... Are you on a two-shot? No. I think we might have had some of our viewers push back as well. On Wanville? Carly Wagner pushed back on Wanville. Yeah.

I mean, if there is one person that we're monikering the homeless encampment after, Juan Wade, the mayor is the guy. Because as the mayor of Charlottesville, he had the council could have said, we're going to ban public camping. Regardless, we're going to have this conversation. Sam Sanders has got difficult task ahead of him. I mean, think about it, just you and I are having a conversation here?

Hold on. He's got a homeless encampment that's a couple hundred people under Freebridge. Wait till you see what happens when it's 95, and 100 degrees outside. Or wait till you see what happens when it's spring and it's not as cold and people want to start using the Rivana River, the Rivana Trail. Right now it's been winter. We've had snow and we've had ice and we've had fake tornadoes that shut down the local

economy and the business community and all of schools yesterday. No, I'm not bitter about that, weathermen and meteorologists that love selling and pushing clickbait. I don't think that was the case here. We had drizzle yesterday. There's no tornadoes. I had a conversation with a lifer. We have to be extremely fortunate to have a windbreak of mountains that mostly ensures that we don't experience a lot of the worst weather that hits Central Virginia.

100%. I literally had this conversation yesterday with like a 63 or 64. year old man over frosty beverages. And the 63, 64 year old man said, I literally asked him this question. He's born and raised in this area, Charlottesville and Almar County. I said, in your 63, 64 years on this planet, have you, he was actually 65. Have you ever seen a tornado touch Almar or Charlestville? He says, never, not once, not a single time. In fact, we had this conversation with my family. I said, I've been here 26 years in August, 26 years, never seen a tornado. Because the Blue Ridge Mountains breaks it up. We all know it.

It's a barrier. And what happened on Sunday, all Sunday, was fear-mongering to generate mom fear, mom-fear, momentized by clickbait. That's the bad side of social media. An AI-generated fear-mongering, mom-fear, storm, pun intended. it. Okay. The economy closed yesterday. Some of it, yeah.

Schools, businesses, retail, restaurants, breweries, companies closed because of what happened with the headlines. And that's going to irritate some people, but those are facts. And it's happening at a time in the first quarter

where the small business owner is desperate, desperate for revenue. We've said on this program, there are 8 to 10 more noteworthy food and beverage businesses on the brink of announcing their closing. That's their news to break. We have the list in our possession. We speak to them. Eight to 10. And to take away days from their earning calendar is damning to them.

Now, they are going to catch a break with the University of Virginia men's basketball team playing. Wright State on Friday, March 20th, at 150 p.m. So if you're in food and beverage, you're going to have Wahoo fans flock to your respective venues to cheer on a Virginia men's basketball team and 18 and a half point favored against Wright State. And the deeper Virginia makes a tournament run, the better for the local community. And this is on the heels of a successful football season. restaurant tours locally, Mike Rodi at Rapture said this.

He owns Rapture on the downtown mall. If it wasn't for a successful football season, most wins in school history single and one campaign. If it wasn't for Tony Elliott's successful Virginia football team, other restaurants would have already been closed by now. Basketball team is complementing football. In a lot of ways, football and basketball are propping up in otherwise fragile, even more fragile F&B,

category. A lot of very similarly to how the PPP money during COVID and the pandemic propped up a lot of small business that was otherwise failing. Yeah. The opposite of Darwinism. A lot we're going to cover the program. I'm going to ask you, the viewer and listener, I'm going to ask folks that are watching the program like John Blair, like like like deep throat, like James Watson, like G. Milo, like Carrie Rock, like Rob Neal, like J. Hu Martin, like Chief conscious like Don Gathers, like Olivia Branch, like Stephanie Fick and Christopher Ketchum, and Dino from Dino's Pizza, and Betsy Nugent and Vanessa Parkhill, and the Britain radio and television that's watching the program, Kate Sharts, the Queen of Ivy, Cully Baggett, the

developer, Matt Neese, who works in real estate and how about handsome Hank Martin making the program better? Love you, Hank Martin. I'm going to ask you, city manager, Sam Sanders, Does he have the most difficult period of his professional career here in Charlottesville right now? This is a guy that's dealt with a lot. He created Sandersville and Market Street Park. The moniker of Sandersville and Market Street Park was 100% fair. Lee Park, Freedom Park, Market Street Park, Sandersville, Zion Bryant Park, so many different monikers for Lee Park, Market Street Park, and Sandersville.

over there. He created that one. I'll give you it's not fair to call the free bridge encampment Sandersville. But Sam Sanders right now, the city manager, highest paid city employee. This is what he's dealing with right now. Are you ready? He's the face

of a two cent real estate tax rate increase, although he was trying to distance himself from being the pitchman for it or the idea originator of a two cent real estate tax rate increase last night by saying, hey, counsel, the reason I'm having to make this presentation and catching all these arrows by residents in the city,

51,000 people strong, is because you, greenlit collective bargaining. And Sanders said, look, I'm not throwing shade on collective bargaining. I just work for counsel. You approved it. And as a result of approved unions for police, fire, rescue, transportation, and teachers, we need to generate and raise some more money. And the only way we can do that is through the tax rate. because meals taxes are down, food and beverage taxes, lodging taxes, and sales taxes. We talked about it yesterday. They are, we have a huge issue in Charlottesville City, regardless of what Chris Engel and the Office of Economic Development has to smoke and mirror or is trying to smoke and weir with us. Sales tax collection is down.

The one lever that they can pull is the real estate tax rate, and that's what they're doing now. I mean, in some cases, we've got half the growth that Admiral County does. Yeah, Almaro County is eating the long. Emily Kilroy's office, Economic Development Director of Amarroo County, is beating Chris Engel's office like a drum, beating the brakes off of them, taking them behind the woodshed, here the woodshed would be what?

The free speech wall? There's no behind on the free speech wall. and pounding them like a red-headed stepchild. Sam Sanders has this. Economic vulnerability, homelessness, wait till the weather gets 70 degrees and people want to actually use the Rivana Trail and the Rivana River.

Wait until it gets to be 95 degrees and 100 degrees and things start to smell. Yeah. If anybody that has been down there, I'm pretty sure the encampment is over, by the, what is it, the auto zone? On that side of the bridge? You started seeing it behind Kozner brothers.

Really? Yeah, so we... Is it behind there as well? We enjoyed lunch at Riverside on Saturday. After our oldest son played in a squash tournament, he said, I want bacon cheeseburgers and chicken nuggets and French fries and onion wings and wing dings and lemonade. This kid eats us out of house at home.

So we go, and then I meander over. You start seeing it behind Kozner brothers, but it's under the river. In fact, can we task you on company time, company time, does not need to be Judah time, company time, can we task you to capture some photography and some videography of the encampment? Sure. Perhaps a jaunt or a nice brisk walk. along the Rivana Trail?

Is the butterfly knife on your person? It's not a butterfly knife on your person? Can I see it? Is it on your person? Is it on your person? We have the police officers watching. We've got to be careful. That's illegal.

That's legal right there. I don't know. Is it the size of your palm? Is it the size of my palm? The blade, Judah, the blade. Jesus. Yeah, I'd say that's the size of your palm. That's not a switch blade.

That's legal. Yeah. It's not his person. Capture some photography and videography for the show if you could. That would be great. Sam Sanders has got economic sales tax revenue issues. He's got a houseless population that's about 200 and so in growing. He's got a shelter on holiday drive that's years away

that's going to cause taxpayers $10 to $15 million if it opens. Deep Throat shares something with me prior to the show about law. Los Angeles, the city, they purchased a Ramada Inn for $10.2 million to house the homeless. Since then, Los Angeles has spent, has gotten an NGO to take over the project. It's now sat vacant for four years. 20 million has been spent. And 32 people have been housed. It's less than ideal.

Deep Throat says, do you think Holiday D. Throats says, do you think Holiday Drive winds up being a bigger or lesser boondoggle than this Los Angeles Ramada End project that's housing 32 million, 32 people, 32 people for 20 million of cash payer resources. I mean, Los Angeles goes big, so I don't think, uh, Charlestville goes big. I don't know if Charleston. Dewberry Hotel. I don't know if Charlestville can go out there. Doberry Hotel?

Holiday drives? Dooberry is a totally different situation. Ronville, revenue sharing agreement, allowing UVA to sidestep taxes, foundation pays taxes, UVA doesn't. Charlottesville goes big. Some say that are watching the program,

cities on the path of California. Just the city? Almore County's thriving. Yeah, but now we've got Spanberger. I mean, we'll see what happens. She just passed a bunch of affordability bills. including the legalization, one of the bills that was passed, the legalization of marijuana. Are marijuana stores going to be the new vape stores? Are all the vape stores in place to capture the marijuana market?

The Democrats- Vap stores now have to get some type of approval or- There's a little bit more accountability with the vape stores, thank God. Because before they were just slinging black tar made in a shifflet's basement with some kerosene and some propane and a couple of knives over a stove and selling them to kids to smoke. Now they have a little bit more oversight, thank God. Yeah, now they're going to need state permits to continue selling vapes. Thank God. But all the vape stores that are set up with brick and mortar retails and business models are primed to capture the newly lit marijuana market. Yeah. That's ready to be, that's ready to burn some money and ready to roll some green. Yeah. And they're offering, I think they're offering a little, that was good. Thank you. Thank you. I thought that was good. I'll give you credit. That was, lots of green, lots of rolling.

The legislation for marijuana sales is also going to help people, I don't know how they would decide this, but help people that were hurt by the prohibition on marijuana. It's going to help them obtain licenses and financing to get into the retail business. don't ask me how they're going to, you know, identify the places that have been hurt by the prohibition. Well, the Waffle House on Fifth Street extended, the tobacco hut, first place you go is check the certificates of approval for what's on those shelves. Spencer Pushard's photo on screen, he's laughing hysterically about my comment, the black tar made in some Shifflet's basement. Jason Noble has a word of advice as his photo is on screen. green, Judah Wickower, he says, stay strapped.

Stay strapped. When you're going to the free ridge you can. Stay strapped. Stay strapped. He says, stay strapped. Judah's loving that. Look at Judah's face right now. I mean, it's funny because.

Anytime Judah laughs, I laugh too. I enjoy when Judah laughs. My dad always has, well, now he even, I think sometimes concealed carries. but he used to always have, you know, a fold-out knife in his man purse. And I remember my dad almost going to jail when we're trying to get on an airplane flight. And they're like, is this your knife? He's like, oh, yeah, sorry. And they're like, we might have to arrest you.

Like, wait, are you kidding me? You can't bring a knife on a plane. I know. It was obviously unintentional. and they got it in, you know, they got it in, you know, when you get on the, when you go through, you know. Airport security. Yeah. Handsome Hank Martin watching the program, his photo on screen.

Charlottesville City Council has champagne taste on a natural light budget. Or actually, it's more like Charlottesville City Council's packing down a 787 of wishes, but giving it a financial aircraft carrier flight deck to laugh at it from. Sam Sanders has been giving an impossible mission. No doubt. Sam Sanders, I would not, I see Sam Sanders walking. I think Sam Sanders is doing a great job. I think Sam Sanders helps stabilize an organization.

A city manager, two city managers before Sam Sanders accepted the job, and the day before he was supposed to start working, he quit. He literally quit on the day before his first job. he said I want nothing to do with this place. That's crazy. That literally is what happened. But you know, I've seen something that gave me a bit of pause. It was about, I don't remember what article it was in, but it talked about where the budget money went.

And it listed, you know, various things. And it obviously was not in incredible detail. But one of the things that I saw was, and I hope somebody, I hope one of our viewers knows more about this. one of the one of the spends was on was on like basically green measures and i'm wondering how much i would like to know how much we're spending on uh you know on that type of thing and how much could be you know how much could be moved from that like my question is how how much are you know we're not going to save the the world uh the world's ecology by a few green measures in Charlottesville, right? I don't think anybody is delusional enough to think that

spending $100,000, a million, however much money in Charlottesville is going to bring down, you know, bring down the emissions. Okay, my biggest issue, just cutting to the chase, going to the point is the allocation of millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars to public transportation, despite rider usage falling aggressively. We are unionizing transportation drivers. We are pursuing

electrical electric buses, the most expensive version of transportation, at least busing-wise, that are inconsistent, that breakdown that are costly to repair, that don't have the same depth and robust nature in route

running. We're paying the driver a boatload of money, and ride share is dropping aggressively. And there's a direct correlation to be made with escalating real estate taxes, making real estate more expensive to own, and the drop in riders with public transportation. They are correlated. As the market becomes more expensive, wealthier people move here, and desire to whip around town in their Priuses and their Teslas, as opposed to getting on an electric bus tin can that's inconsistent with its pickup and drop-off times

and has bus stops that are unsheltered from inclement weather. That's facts. Look at the ride share numbers. And I'll say this again. The conundrum, maybe it's a conundrum triangle, homelessness, the economy, and the budget, escalating budget? This is the conundrum triangle.

It's not a love triangle. It's a conundrum triangle. It's a hate triangle. It's a angry triangle. It's not a love triangle. It's not a menagerie. He would wish it was a menageretre. It's the opposite of a menagerie.

It's the opposite of a menagerie. It's one person in the attic, one person on the first floor, and one person on the basement. Not all three in the bedroom. The homelessness, the economy, and the escalating budget, Sam Sanders' conundrum triangle, they're all linked.

They're all linked. What came first, the chicken or the egg, what came first, the shrinking economy, the escalating budget, or the homelessness? Did the homelessness drive the shrinking economy, and did the shrinking economy drive the escalating budget? If the homelessness wasn't so prevalent, would the economy be more significant, And if the economy is more significant, does it generate more incremental revenue associated with... And put ease on the budget. And put ease on us as taxpayers with the budget. Because every cent that you're increasing the real estate tax rate,

the more homogenous white and wealthy you're making your community. No one, I don't care who you are. Increased taxes to create housing affordability. That's an oxymoron. That's hypocrisy. I'm tired of hearing that. If I hear that from anyone that's watching or listening to this program, or if I hear this from an elected official from livable Seville,

livable Seville, if you tell me again that we're going to increase the real estate taxes to drive housing affordability, viewers and listeners, you have Judah Wickhauer's approval to elbow them in the jugular. Elbow into the jugular, wow. The Adams apple, if you may. Ooh, that's even worse. You could break someone's Adam's apple. Comments are coming in aggressively.

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Deep Throats photo on screen. Very applicable image to depict our friend Deep Throat right there. Is this photo on screen? I'm waiting for you to start. Deep Throat's photo on screen. We don't have public transit here in Charlott, so we have public transit theater. Meandering routes at 10 miles per hour are useless.

Express buses along Route 29 and 250 will reduce many more vehicle miles. All this green stuff, the flaw is that this council and staff have made zero effort to measure CO2 reduced money spent of various options. they are incapable of it because they can't do he's taking a little far here I can guess with the next two words on math with a calculator in hand and a math teacher

stating next to them he says an electric bus is a horrible CO2 reduction per dollar spent Michael Payne pushing the electric buses by the way Michael Payne Patrick Bull is watching the program He thinks we should call it Tentville, Tentville.

Vanessa Park Hill, how does the usage of microcat compare to the full-sized buses? I'm always curious how many of those who lobby for the public transportation actually choose to use it. I like my car. I love the freedom and flexibility offered by driving my own vehicle. In the last week alone, I've seen livable Seaville advocate, activate, advocate, lobby, or protest for more, more tax dollars spent on public transportation and more taxes on real estate to fund housing affordability. And the last week, fund the tin cans that are running around town empty and increase the taxes

on houses to fund housing affordability. Literally, they said that in the last week. James Watson watching the program, his photo on screen. As you know and are well aware, I'm always preaching that the city and university should host a round of the NCAA tournament and a small conference tournament. past weekend, I attended the ACC tournament, and one thing I never thought about is there's lots of downtime during those weekends in which people spend lots of dollars locally. Sometimes your team doesn't play till 9 p.m. As a result, I found myself going to a local African-American

art museum, buying things from a farmer's market downtown, and eating at multiple local restaurants. ACCT tournament makes millions for Greensboro and Charlotte. I've seen Greenville, South Carolina host tournaments as well, and that town is not significantly larger than Charlottesville. Easy money over four days for a locality and very little impact. James Watson, props, and kudos to you. We're going to watch the lacrosse tournament come to Charlottesville because the World Cup, where's the lacrosse tournament previously? Philadelphia, I believe. As a result, the lacrosse Final Four, the big lacrosse weekend at the end of the year, is going to be at Scott Stadium. Tens of thousands of people.

hundreds of thousands of people will descend on the Charlestville area for a long weekend to enjoy lacrosse. I'm a huge proponent of sports tourism here on the I Love Seville Show. We don't really see sports tourism which boggles my mind. Is it a boo laggard? What is the phrase? Oh, boo languor. It boolangers my mind. Oh, man. You're just using it for everything. I mean, I've got one of, I created some actual definitions. Well, definitions of boo languor, what are they? And if you're just watching the program, there was a gentleman by the name of Boo Langer that wanted to go toe to toe to toe with me on social media. And I said, we'll go toe to toe. We'll weave you into the

I Love's Evil show each week. Now we've created a word, Boolangered. What are the definitions of Boolangered? Boolangered. When someone voluntarily engages with your content despite finding it annoying, offensive, or triggering it just so they can feel a sense of outrage. Yeah, that's a great definition of Boolangard. I find it. absolutely hilarious. How many people post on the I Love Seville Network? This content is despicable. It makes me angry. It makes me infuriated. I can't stop thinking about you, Jerry. Stop doing it. What are you doing? As opposed to just clicking the unfollow button. Close the door. Put on some headphones. What are you doing? And then my response is... Are you in an office

where this is put up on a big screen TV or something and you can't escape it? My response to them is you could always unfollow and then they respond oh no it's my duty to hold you accountable that that's the response that's a great definition of boo laggard what are the other definitions of bulangered that's the only one that's a good one i've turned boo languored into just about everything now yeah you think i diminish the value of boo languored you just muddy the waters confuse the issue anytime you say the word, everyone's like, is he talking about fly fishing or is he talking about engaging in annoying content because he wants to be triggered? Is Sam Sanders facing the most blamongered moment of his city manager career right now?

I sincerely mean. Is Sam Sanders facing the most challenging time he is faced so far as a city manager right now? probably i mean it's not going to get easier he he he genuinely sam sanders is got a houseless crisis a budget he can't keep in check because of a champagne tasted counsel and he's got a shrinking economy thank god for mike conscious who's watching the program and if thank god for my cautious that you jump in that crime and policing is performing at an all-time high clip right now. Yeah. Thank God.

Go ahead. I was going to say, and if we're talking about the, what was it, the triangle of, the boule-langard triangle? Triangle of boolangerage-ness. I don't know. But if homelessness is part of that triangle, and city council has decided that they don't, don't want to do anything in terms of setting rules or laws about how we can deal with the

homeless population, then you could definitely argue that, uh, that city council is essentially thrown handcuffs on, on, on, uh, on Sam Sanders and, and a hundred percent. That's the whole point. The guy's doing the best he can. Yeah. But, but if you can't, if you can't, uh, what's the word I'm looking forward. If you can't correct one of the issues that is affecting your local economy, then you've got to, I don't know, make stuff up. Pray, hope. 100%. Jude said it beautifully. Well said.

John Blair's watching the program. He knows a figure two about running cities and working for local government. Very smart man. He says in defense of Mr. Sanders, people seem to forget that Sam Sanders proposed two previous homeless shelter sites, Avon Street and Cherry Avenue. In both instances, public opposition scuttled reasonable plans. The cited Cherry even had a potential provider of services. I think people need to remember that in this discussion.

It's not like Holiday Drive was a first choice. It's worth keeping that in mind. 100%. 100% correct from John Blair. Props and kudos to him. We'll give some attention to Stanley Martin Holmes. Stanley Martin Holmes is a partner of the show. whether it's condos,

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She's already purchased her tickets for the NCAA lacrosse tournament in Charlottesville, all sessions, and she cannot wait for this event to happen. Philip Dow, the mayor of Scottsville, the city will never get ahead as long as they continue spending instead of cutting costs, not increasing taxes to cover unnecessary spending the liberal way. Philip Dow's words on the I Love Seville Show.

I'll close this topic, and head into the next few on the I Love Seville show today. And I want to get to Conan Owens' comments here. Conan Owens says this, the hierarchy of needs for any government, public safety, economic development, and public education, everything else like green initiatives, public art, etc., are nice to have.

You can get around to those when you've got the essentials covered. And he says, Seville doesn't have the hotel capacity to fill the John Paul, Jones Arena with out of towners for even a first round NCAA tournament weekend. The PGA Junior Tour Stop or NCAA lacrosse or baseball regional, sure, maybe. So he's pushing back on sports tourism. Conan Owen is. I'll close with this on the Sam Sanders talking point.

I wouldn't want that job. That job, soup to nuts is probably flirting with $300,000 a year in compensation. I wouldn't take that job. I would want that job. The shelf life of the city manager historically is very short, much like head coaches in college and professional sports. You have 50% of the community that dislikes you, 25% that offers lukewarm support,

and the remaining 25% that doesn't know your name. And the current city manager who is an affable guy, a likable guy, an approachable guy, currently is dealing with the most challenging time of his professional career. No doubt. A homeless encampment monikered after the mayor, Wanville,

a shrinking economy and his city, and a budget that's getting more and more expensive that is directly gentrifying his community and making it white, wealthy, and homogenous. I wouldn't want that job. Speaking of communities and jurisdictions,

Alamaro County, that photo on screen, if you're not seeing, if not reading these tea leaves correctly, Al Morrow County is spending money today, and it's counting on that money coming in tomorrow for Master of Zeneca. It legitimately is spending Al Morrow County money it does not have, and it's doing it on the theory, on the notion, on the hope of economic vitality,

24 or 36 months from now, thanks to AstraZeneca and biotechnology and that supply chain. And you know what? I hope to God it materializes. I'm extremely bullish on Almaro County. Extremely bullish. But spending money you don't have,

that's not coming in for 24 to 36 months, is a dangerous proposition. No doubt. And that's what Al Mara is doing. Even if it was guaranteed, it's still a dangerous operation. Amen, brother. Operation because you don't know

how much is going to come in? 100% brother. You could end up spending so much that we end up chasing, you know, the payoff. There it is. Look at Judah's got the king's chair over there on the shot. Look at that fine leather Italian chair over there. I can't really lean back. Stay strapped, Judah.

Stay strapped. Next headline, Judah Wickauer, the marijuana retail. We got 60 to 90 seconds on marijuana retail. Let's see. VA passes a bill to allow. marijuana retail sales. Democrats in Virginia are green lighting the green, baby. They want to roll with the green.

They want to pack the customers. They're going to pack your bowl. Retail sales will begin January 1st, 2027. They set a 6% cannabis tax, state cannabis tax, and will allow localities to adopt a local tax between 1 and 3.5% existing retail sales and use taxes will also apply. It includes the measures that I mentioned before about helping people hurt by the prohibition and strengthens enforcement of illicit sales of untested and untaxed cannabis products.

And the goal, this is a quote from Delegate Paul Kreisek, Democrat from Fairfax who sponsored the House bill. Now, the goal is simple, protect public safety, create a well-regulated marketplace, and finally move beyond the chaos of the unregulated system we have today. I can appreciate that. I appreciate it. I appreciate it.

I think it's about time. This should have already happened. My next prediction, ladies and gentlemen, is all those vape shops are going to turn into weed shops. You think about the weed shop and the vape shop, it's the same model. The vape shops are already set up. to be the weed shops. It's going to be a cannabis rush. A lot of people thought this was going to happen

when Glenn Yonkin was going to take office. He in fact poo-poohed the puff-puff. He poo-pooed the puff-puff. The Democrats are all about the puff-puff-puff, and it's past, pass-passing. The next headline, Judah Wickcower, is it the Croze headline? Yeah. 38% of holes in Crozee in 2026 were purchased with all cash. This according to Crozay realtor Jim Duncan. 38% of all homes purchased in Crozay, Virginia in 2026 were done with all cash. Unbelievable, ladies and gentlemen. Fantastic stat from Jim Duncan. That blew me away. And to close the program down, we'll give some love to Charlottesville Sanitary Supply. Charlottesville Sanitary Supply has been in business for 62 years. Charlestful Sanitary

Supply and Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company or who you contact for anything, cleaning, sanitary vacuum and swimming pool related. Charlotteswillingpool Company.com and Charlestfulsanitary Supply.com where they have an e-commerce store products more affordable than you can find from big box brands and free delivery. Last headline today is this Virginia men's basketball team, 18 and a half point favorites. Wright State on Friday at 150 p.m. 18 and a half point favorites for UVA. this is a success story. Ryan Odom is pursuing his 30th win and his first year on the job here in Charlottesville. It's also a success story and it's also momentum for small business owners in the food and beverage space.

Friday at 150 p.m. 919, Druid Avenue is a listing you need to consider viewers and listeners. 919 Druid Avenue, $699,000 asking price. 919 Druid Avenue, ladies and gentlemen, has a basement apartment, that's ready to be income producing, completely remodeled and renovated, walking distance to Belmont Park and everything cool in Charlestville. This will have an eight handle from evaluation in the very near future.

Judah Wickhauer, Jerry Miller, the I Love Seville Show.