Now that Kathy Graziano, Doug Conner, and Reva Trammell have retained their seats on city council, residents of the Southside look forward to having their civic needs represented and fulfilled by the experience each of these council-persons bring to the table.

Crime , public health, schools, infrastructure, and blight continue to be primary issues Richmond and the Southside endure. What will new mayor-elect Dwight Jones bring to the table? Will his experience as a delegate and preacher be enough to pull the fractured city back together?

Since the terms have been stretched to four years, it seems likely that each of our representatives will have plenty of time to accomplish projects without the distraction of campaigning.

Now is a time of great transition in the city of Richmond. Let us hope that our representatives will seize the momentum Barack Obama has developed nationally and utilize the spirit of change locally.

Congratulations to our Southside incumbents who continue to prove their strength in community development.

Here is the article from the Times-Dispatch:

According to a press release from Richmond City Council:

Richmond City Council Slave Trail Commission to hold open public forums on memorializing Richmond Negro Burial Grounds in Shockoe Bottom

The entire Richmond community is invited and encouraged to attend and participate

WHAT The Richmond City Council Slave Trail Commission will hold open forum public community forum meetings to hear and discuss ideas from Richmond citizens on how to properly memorialize the site of an historic Richmond Negro Burial Grounds located in the Shockoe Bottom area of Richmond. Land on this site was recently identified and set aside by Virginia Commonwealth University. The entire Richmond community is invited and encouraged to attend and participate in this important community discussion. The first meeting will take place as follows:

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Election season is buzzing! Everyone seems very excited about this year’s election of the president, the mayor, city council, and the school board. Having attended several forums for school board, city council, and mayoral candidates, it has become very clear that many of the public’s questions go unanswered by these forums.

Let this post be an open invitation to post your questions to the candidates. Many news agencies and political groups send extensive question lists and subsequently interview candidates in order to decide who they will support. Here we will simply collect questions from anonymous individuals and should they be responded to here, that’s wonderful, should they not be responded to here, the questions will be passed on to the candidates at a later date and their responses will be posted here.

So go ahead and ask whatever you have been dieing to have answered!