June 4 Newsletter: Why is Richmond's car tax higher than the counties?
Plus, a cat map project is the purr-fect story for your Wednesday, City Council approves a 5-cent plastic bag tax, and what to do with a recently discovered mass grave?
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'It's been crazy': Map of Richmond's shop cats a smash hit as initial printing goes fast
The map doubles as a passport of sorts: map holders can get their maps stamped at participating businesses to denote that they’ve visited each cat.
Why is Richmond's car tax so much higher than the counties’?
There are four main reasons.
Discovery of 742 potential graves raises new questions about how to handle Confederate marker in Manchester
The situation is "so much bigger than anyone imagined," said one advocate.
NASCAR dreams, bespoke sandwiches: here's what you can get at this year's big RPS auction
Among the goals of the fundraiser is to continue work on a planned Technical Center on land in South Richmond that was previously donated by Altria.
Mosby Street bus platform experiment showing few changes in driver behavior so far
City staff found that roughly one out of every three times the bus stopped, a car passed it — about the same percentage seen before platform installation.
City Council approves 5-cent tax on plastic bags starting in 2026
Richmond is the latest of nearly a dozen local governments in Virginia to approve a bag tax
