It's stupid, outdated, and misogynistic and I don't agree with it, but the reason is that teaching was seen as women's work, and they made the pay low as a barrier to entry for unmarried women. It's not meant to be the job of a breadwinner, the teacher is supposed to have a husband with a job that pays the bills so her income is extra. Wouldn't want those unmarried harlots living independently or teaching our precious children to have loose morals.

For sure, sometimes that's the only way. I wouldn't have known about this either until I started working in the industry

One thing that may help prevent similar situations in the future - ask for a certificate of insurance showing you as the certificate holder before even letting a contractor step foot on your property. This goes for everyone, businesses and individuals. If it's a big job, make them add you as an additional insured and/or require additional insured status in your contract with them.

Insurance probably would not have paid out for this loss, but dollars to donuts he doesn't have coverage. Money issues usually mean insurance is the easiest corner to cut, and failure to maintain a license would block him from getting coverage by any company that checked, which they mostly will do. Additionally, providing falsified certificates of insurance is a felony in Virginia.

Don't hate the player, hate the game

The turn lane on broad starts so far back it's easy to get in the lane before you see the sign. Needs better signage, because it's a huge pain in the ass if you do accidentally get in that lane.

Worst Shamrock the Block ever, until next year

Shit dude, r/rva'ers would upvote a picture of a chicken wing straight to the top. You might even get gilded for a good possum pic. I crossed a line with my comment though I guess.

Good catch! I guess most of the city is between Farm Fresh and Petco so that doesn't really narrow it down.

I usually do 2 + a drink and am good but I've been doing intermittent fasting for a few months so it's easier for me to feel full than it used to be.

edit: This comment is at -2 and imagining the kind of person who's like "two tacos and a drink to feel full??? downvote!!!" makes me laugh, what a sad existence

Two different burrito making stations that absolutely do not communicate with or help each other in any way. I stopped going to Chipotle after one too many times of placing an online order, arriving after the app said it would be ready, then watching multiple people come in and go through the walk through line while waiting for my food to be made. The last time, after 20+ minutes, I just cancelled the order and left to get a sandwich from one of the grocery stores.

It's right next to the Petco and Farm Fresh Fresh Market. Pro-tip, don't go there, go to Torchy's instead.

That is true, in that case you would probably describe their nationalities differently though. If you were in Africa you might say that Kenyan guy, not that black guy. Just like if you were in China, you might say that Korean guy not that Asian guy to describe someone.

>And, as my CJR colleague Alexandria Neason told me recently, “I view the term Black as both a recognition of an ethnic identity in the States that doesn’t rely on hyphenated Americanness (and is more accurate than African American, which suggests recent ties to the continent) and is also transnational and inclusive of our Caribbean [and] Central/South American siblings.” To capitalize Black, in her view, is to acknowledge that slavery “deliberately stripped” people forcibly shipped overseas “of all other ethnic/national ties.” She added, “African American is not wrong, and some prefer it, but if we are going to capitalize Asian and South Asian and Indigenous, for example, groups that include myriad ethnic identities united by shared race and geography and, to some degree, culture, then we also have to capitalize Black.”

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php

>we capitalize Black, and not white, when referring to groups in racial, ethnic, or cultural terms. For many people, Black reflects a shared sense of identity and community. White carries a different set of meanings; capitalizing the word in this context risks following the lead of white supremacists.

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>Sarah Glover, a past president of the National Association of Black Journalists, wrote in a recent piece for the New York Amsterdam News, a historically Black weekly, that “capitalizing the ‘B’ in Black should become standard use to describe people, culture, art and communities.” After all, she pointed out, “We already capitalize Asian, Hispanic, African American and Native American.” 

>I don’t know why everyone just assumes it’s a barren wasteland. With nothing to do?

Everything you listed involves leaving Ashland

This election was pretty poorly advertised and planned - I know there were external constraints. A snap election like this basically means whoever can mobilize the most reliable Democratic voters will get it. That seems to be Bagby who is more plugged into the Democratic party establishment. All around a resounding victory for Dominion and coal energy.

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e: Just for some context, every single city council election in the last cycle had more voters than this one (6,525 votes). Mike Jones running uncontested got 7,200 votes in his district. Only two council members received fewer votes than Lamont Bagby, Ann Francis Lambert (3,900) and Reva Trammell (4,300).

Sometimes you've got to know when to hold em and when to fold em

It is that simple, the Squirrels are a feeder team for the SF Giants and the SF Giants owner is worth ~$6,100,000,000. We are going to give them money, with no clear direct benefit to the city, and they're still going to charge us to come see the games and overcharge us for the hotdogs and beers we get there. It's a for profit enterprise.

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>This agreement and business between MiLB and the city is mutually beneficial, they would not engage in it if it were not.

You have a lot of faith in the same city government administration that brought us the Commanders Training Camp, which was a boondoggle from start to finish and never produced the results they said it would.

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>You keep reducing the whole thing to some slogan about “fuck the rich”

Weird, when I ctrl + f for "fuck the rich" the only time I see that is your post.

You could hire more teachers or pay existing teachers more to retain them. You could provide after school programs that will keep kids out of trouble in those crucial hours between when school lets out and when their parents get home. Enhance the lunch programs so that we're providing healthy, good food. All kinds of things.

I don't think so, I just think it's ridiculous to give a billionaire money for his toys while people in the city go without. I guess you have a different opinion and you're welcome to it.

I don't think a ton of people are traveling to Richmond, staying in hotels, going to restaurants because of the Squirrels. It's mostly people from the surrounding counties (whose tax dollars wouldn't be going to the team) and they eat at the stadium and go home afterwards. That piece of land is being developed no matter what, it's right next to Scott's Addition and is a very obviously underutilized piece of real estate. They're calling it the diamond district for marketing, but it could be called anything and developers would be drooling over it.

Unfortunately the city's not an endless supply of money. The franchisee should pay for it, it's not like people who live here get free tickets to the games. If McDonalds was going to close the store on Broad and 18th St unless they spent $3.5M in renovations would you support the city giving them the money too?

Now think about the benefit $3.5M could provide to schools in the same terms

What kind of jobs are they providing? The place is open for a few hours a week and I can't imagine there's a lot of salaried employees there.

Just the owner of the SF Giants is worth $6.1B. If he financed the stadium all on his own he'd still be worth $6.1B. It's the equivalent of someone with $10k in the bank spending $5.75ish.