Ask any public or private entity that accepts complaints from the public. The language and length! of emails I see is so different than what it was even last year.

Came for the RVA byline, stayed for the insight into podcasting business. Innovation in creative businesses only seems to happen when there isn't a profit motive sucking up all the space.

McDonnell also changed the state employee retirement pension system. Doesn't matter much to outside folks, but it was a change for VA state employees.

Youngkin hasn't even done much internally except make the VDOE dysfunctional and backtrack then renew a decision to tear down the Monroe building.

The demographics and culture of the the students will probably be ok, but the students and alumni won't forget how their administrators gleefully ran to lick the boots of the Trump administration even faster than the other VA schools.

Watch for some lean fundraising years to come.

Always appreciate your coverage of these!