VACRN NEWS, #32, September, 2023
VACRN NEWS, #31, August, 2023
James River community project: restoring forest buffers to improve the quality of our waters
I am fortunate to live on land that is high above the James River, looking out to Nelson County and towards the Blue Ridge. With grave concern I have been watching the river banks erode for the last 30+ years with each highwater...
Albemarle County Judge rights the wrongs of 125-year-old indictment and lynching of John Henry James
Albemarle County’s Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, with research assistance from the University of Virginia, (sought) to right a 125-year wrong: the unlawful indictment of a Black man who in 1898 had been accused of sexual assault of a white woman. Albemarle’s...
VACRN News #30, July, 2023
VACRN News, #29, June, 2023
Keeping the status quo is a bad idea
Farmville Herald letter to the editor by Mindy Zlotnick: On Wednesday, 4/19/23, Heidi Dhivya Berthoud presented, as requested, to the Buckingham Planning Commission (PC) an excellent summary of the State Study on the impacts of gold mining in Virginia. [See recording...
Nature Lawyers Up
“Should trees have standing?” This question, posed in a 1972 law review paper, kicked off discussions about the rights of nature. Nina Riggio for The New York TimesWhat if nature had rights? Overall, humanity has made a lot of progress, albeit uneven, over the past...
VACRN News, #28, May, 2023
