Cville Right Now Live

WINA's Dori Zook rounds up the top five soundbites of the week.

Schilling Show host Rob Schilling discusses the ascension of Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic ticket and Governor Youngkin's appointment of former Albemarle County School Board candidate Meg Bryce to the Virginia Board of Education.

Dan Rosensweig, CEO of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville, explains the organization's offer to purchase the Carlton Mobile Home Park to help preserve an important source of affordable housing in the city. Habitat is working with PHA and Legal Aid Justice Center with support from the City of Charlottesville.

Charlottesville29 founder Simon Davidson announces the opening of Mejicali, a new restaurant on West Main from the same owner as The Bebedero. 

WINA Morning News host Jay James discusses his recent conversation about gun violence with Charlottesville Commonwealth's Attorney Joe Platania and shares WINA Education Analyst Lee Elberson's views on the damaging impact of cell phones and the appointment of Meg Bryce to the Virginia Board of Education.

Quinton Beckham, principal broker for KW Alliance, discusses the future of the Carlton Mobile Home Park and the current state of the local real estate market.

James French, founder of the Montpelier Descendants Committee and former chair of the Montpelier Foundation, shares his plans to apply the structural parity model of governance he pioneered to institutions and AI through his new organization, Brownland Leadership Solutions. 

Daily Progress Editor Reynolds Hutchins discusses the paper's plan to appeal a judge's ruling on a FOIA lawsuit seeking release of the independent report into the November 2022 shooting of three UVA student athletes. He also talks about the appointment of Meg Bryce to the State Board of Education.

Retired forensic psychologist Jeff Fracher discusses the recently solved Shenandoah Park Murders. Fracher offers his perspective on both the longtime suspect, Darrell Rice, who died just two weeks after DNA cleared him in the case, and on Walter "Leo" Jackson Sr., the man ultimately matched by DNA to the crime.

Jennifer Emmi, a woman incarcerated at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, describes her transfer from a Colorado prison following her report of a sexual assault and the life-threatening health conditions that she alleges are going untreated.