So rules? Yes. Enforced? As with everything in Henrico, haphazardly and often with bias towards the poor, the different, and the fun.

I don’t actually see a definition for “occasional use”.

Otherwise, it’s pretty typical Henrico language that they get to decide, e.g. whether there are:

“adverse health, safety, noise, or nuisance impacts on any adjoining permanent uses or nearby residential neighborhoods;”

I sincerely apologize for missing this! I hope you didn’t have any trouble with code enforcement.

“Garage or yard sale. The temporary and occasional use of the premises of a dwelling for the sale, open to the public, of personal property.”

So when it looks like a lot of Dems might win, what do you do the week before the election?

Burn it all down with a stupid stunt sure to piss off every Republican voter in the Commonwealth.

Dems eat their own to protect the rich.

If more Dems win, it’s not a battle against “others”.

It’s a battle of the safe-seats and the swing seats and Dems do not want the internecine conflict. Nooo.

Because there might be uncomfortable questions. And Dems willing to break with the party.

And Dems pissed that the party ignored them.

All this does is embolden R’s and make it near-impossible to get the second round through, because a bunch of Dems that might’ve won will now lose.

But boy, it makes safe-seat Dems look brave and bold and like they’re fighting for the people! 🙄

They do not want to win.

Well, tbf, who keeps insisting they cover campaign financial reports?

(The parties, the consultants, and the fundraisers.)

As long as money is the only metric that matters, AI can cover financial reports. Then what’s a political reporter to do except beg for relevance?

Well, 🤚 lawyer, the answer is “they have lawyers trying not to get sued for factually incorrect statements”

Laws likely broken, but SCOTUS may decide laws don’t exist so we can’t say “broken”…

Norms? Norms are squishy and relative. Sure, say someone broke a norm.

“Battleground” is about making money for the Party and the picked consultant/vendor circle.

It’s a loss leader they use to raise a boatload of money statewide, take their cut, and recruit more people they can treat like ATMs.

And the cash keeps flowing to the inner circle.

Spend $10k in ten races, hit hard where incumbents are lazy and not well-liked, in small towns with bipartisan local concerns, 💥

$100k to get 1-2 winners.

Or you could spend half a million on a “battleground” and likely lose it.

This is how you know “battleground” isn’t about winning.

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You can help georeference some of the Sanborn maps. Interesting way to tour through old Richmond (and see the changing streets/names).

Do we to space out kids by 4-5 years until public school kicks in? What about afternoons?

We’re millennials, we already put off kids until we were sort of financially secure because that’s WHAT WE WERE TOLD TO DO.

So we don’t have much time. And still save for a very uncertain economic future.

This 👆🏻

Mortgage + interest rate on mortgage + childcare, FOR ONE CHILD, is… my paycheck.

And I’m a lawyer. Granted, in house for a small nonprofit, but COME ON.

So what do we do? One partner stops working, we cut back on everything else without a second income?

Heaven help you if you’re in a 🦼