Sometimes, it is very frustrating to be a maven. You write and you write but nobody seems to listen. I can’t count the number of times I h...

My one fan out there knows that almost as long as I have been a maven I have been complaining that the City of Richmond doesn’t provide en...

Well fellow citizens, it is April 15, affectionately known as “tax day.” This is the day when most of us end our annual battle with the ...

While we’re talking about Mayor Jones’s proposal to develop Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom, have you noticed there are two petitions floati...

  I met Paul Goldman in June of 2008 at the office of the City Registrar here in RVA. I was submitting my petitions to be on the ball...

Okay, here it is. Today this maven is 70 years old. That means I have completed seven decades of living. That means I have lived longer th...

  These bills were introduced in the Virginia House of Delegates in the current session: HB 61: would prohibit the sale of rifles...

This maven has said nothing about the ongoing dispute here in Richmond over Mayor Dwight Jones’ plan for the redevelopment of the Shocko...

First a disclaimer—I don’t want to write this. As I said earlier this week, I do not like to write anything that is related to the Civil ...

It is Sunday afternoon. I am pulling out of the Saint James-Beth Ahabah parking lot onto an alley between Franklin and Grace Streets. At t...

It has been years since I have commented on a letter to the editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Generally, I am in total disagreem...