Charlottesville Community Engagement

The second Monday of May is with us and takes the name of May 8 or could also go by Day 128. There are 44 days until the solstice, the next time the world will begin to turn back toward the dark. Until then, Charlottesville Community Engagement shall continue to point out such information but cannot let it slide that this is also National Meeting Planners Appreciation Day .  Sounds appropriate. On...

One, two, three. As in, 123, which is the day of the year that May 3 falls upon three out of four years. Such facts may or may not be of relevance, but they seem more useful than telling you about dubious holidays such as the Great American Grump Out or National Lumpy Rug Day .  Either way, this is Charlottesville Community Engagement and I’m Sean Tubbs. On today’s program: * Home sales have dropp...

I became a writer to try to understand what was going on in my head and to process feelings that no one around me seemed to want to hear about. May 2 is Childhood Depression Awareness Day , and I’m reminded of how confusing the world seemed to be when I was younger and how much I retreated from everything. 2023 seems to be more intimidating to young people than 1983 was to me, and I’m hopeful that...

For over three years, the City of Charlottesville has been engaged in a process to reform the way land use decisions are made. The Cville Plans Together initiative has resulted in an affordable housing plan as well as an updated Comprehensive Plan. This spring and summer sees continued work on a new zoning code intended to make it easier to build more housing and require more of them to be afforda...

Do you like the world to be arranged in an orderly fashion? Or do you prefer the chaos of the random? Either way, if you’re looking to increase your productivity, consider that April 26 is Get Organized Day according to several websites set up to tell us what day it is. None can tell us the origins. Yet, the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals celebrate on May 20, whi...

The 115th day of the year has arrived and we’re not quite one third of the way through 2023. That milestone will be met on the 122nd day, or a week from now. There are so many ways to divide up time, and the intent of Charlottesville Community Engagement is to inform anyone reading or listening that they too can look anew at the world each and every day. I’m Sean Tubbs.  On today’s show: * The hea...

What is it that you really want to do? Are you making progress toward what you want to achieve? As a member of an intelligent species, it’s always a good time to ask such questions. But I’m told by a website of dubious repute that today is Refresh Your Goals Day . Charlottesville Community Engagement has not become a self-help newsletter and podcast, but I always encourage everyone to remember the...

Three out of ten days that will happen this year have now already happened as we hit the 108th edition of 2023. One way to slow down time is to measure the increments as intricately as possible in the hopes of assembling them once again in the future. At this moment, there is not a new edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement to mark each rotation of the Earth, but this is the 524th install...

Welcome to the day  It is April Seventeen That’s the whole intro Except, it’s not, because I can’t limit myself to 17 syllables to properly provide context. Such context is the whole goal of Charlottesville Community Engagement, a newsletter and podcast that attempts to establish a little harmonic knowledge about the chaotic world. I’m Sean Tubbs, thinking you’ve not heard the last attempt to cele...

There remains something ominous about the number 13 especially when it’s used to describe a day’s relative position in the month. Does Thursday the Thirteenth strike fear in your veins or is it just another adjective to be used as a placeholder in a sentence? Thank goodness the scope of Charlottesville Community Engagement does not cover such philosophical questioning. I’m Sean Tubbs and I shall b...

A perhaps unreliable source of fake holidays tells me that today, April 12, is Hamster Day . It has been over forty years since my last two hamsters escaped from their cage and fled to freedom. I don’t really want to know for sure the fate of Blondie and Dagwood, two creatures whose time with me was brief and memorable. But this is Charlottesville Community Engagement , and our time is also brief...

I did not anticipate when I played Dungeons and Dragons and other role playing games when I was a young child that a love of obscure manuals would somehow translate into the work I do now. I help interpret the rules of development to people who aren’t familiar with them. This is especially important at a time when those rules are being changed. That’s a key feature of every single edition of Charl...

Many of us know what 10-4 is supposed to mean, but does 4-10 represent anything else other than a height? Perhaps it signals a punt? Neither of these things would make any sense to the handful of British readers of Charlottesville Community Engagement, who may think today is okay. I’m Sean Tubbs and perhaps it would have been better if I had just said that this is the 100th day of the year.  On to...

Infanta Maria . Arvid Horn . Athenagoras I of Constantinople . These are but a few of the people who were born on April 6 in decades and centuries gone by who perhaps none of us have heard about before. Yet, anyone could do a deep dive into any subject matter with just a little research. That’s more or less what every installment of Charlottesville Community Engagement seeks to achieve, just on a...

Chroniclers of fake holidays have marked today down as Bell Bottoms Day, commemorating a style of trousers that dates back to the early 19th century that are perhaps best known as a way of making fun of the fashion of the 1970’s. Charlottesville Community Engagement has no position on any fashion choice, but as host, I should inform you that I am very interested in any attempt to define a style of...

Today is a rare day when readers and listeners on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean can agree that this is 4/4/23 as well as being 4/4/23. Such a day is one of harmony with hopefully less confusion as two distinct naming systems come into convergence for just a short time. Will this affect the content of this edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement? You will have to read or listen to the en...

Hello and welcome to a rebranded edition of this newsletter and podcast, now to be called Albemarle Community Engagement . This decision to change the focus represents a sincere look at what really matters to this community, and this name change reflects a hope that this outlet will be a true ACE for the future. I’m Sean Tubbs, confident that this will really hit home for so many of you here in th...

We are now in the antepenultimate day of the first quarter of 2023, meaning the water rabbit has only nine more months to celebrate their rotation in one of the zodiacs that provide narrative for many of the eight billion people on the planet. Not enough research has been done to determine if that system or any other system has any effect on the creation of this or any other installment of Charlot...

March 27 is apparently National Joe Day , which means that is the day I introduce myself as Sean Joseph Tubbs, the host of Charlottesville Community Engagement. On any given day, there are a lot of things to celebrate, commemorate, and honor and this introduction could cite any one of them. For today’s introduction, I choose National Joe Day to honor my father, Joe Tubbs, though now I suspect he’l...

If you are a fan of Fridays in March, rest assured that you will have one more opportunity in 2023. This is also the 83rd day of the year, so if you’re a fan of prime numbers, today’s a day to celebrate! You have one more of those in March and I’ll say which one at the very end of this installment of Charlottesville Community Engagement. For now, it’s on to the information.  On today’s program: *...

It has now been a day since the spring has sprung, and the time is fading when the word “vernal” can be used to express the current time. But the new season is now with us and the days shall grow longer until the solstice. No matter what position we may happen to be in, this is Charlottesville Community Engagement and there is no shortage of items to track. I’m Sean Tubbs, constantly looking for n...

A no-nonsense introduction today to the March 18, 2023 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement to mark a Saturday just before the equinox in a time of rapid change as the first blooms travel through the air on winds that no one really understands. I’m Sean Tubbs, ready to get straight to the information.  On today’s program: * A shooting in a parking lot on Elliewood Avenue early this morn...

Be incredibly careful today, because for some reason March 16 is Everything You Do is Right Day . Such confidence is never the ethos of Charlottesville Community Engagement, a newsletter and podcast infused with more than a modicum of doubt. But this particular solar rotation is also Freedom of Information Day , and this program seeks to be a conduit to a sense of what’s happening. I’m Sean Tubbs....

On today’s program:  * A top epidemiologist at the University of Virginia reflects on three years since the beginning of the pandemic * Virginia passenger rail hits a new record ridership in January  * Albemarle County Supervisors  begin going through the $551.51M  total budget for FY2024 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes...

On today’s program: * Albemarle and Charlottesville announce several arrests in recent gun violence  * A second person files paperwork to run for Supervisor in Albemarle County’s White Hall District  * Weldon Cooper Center will soon become part of the Karsh Institute of Democracy * Albemarle County will hand out $100,000 in grants to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions * More from the Charlottesv...