Charles Fishburne is a correspondent for WCVE Public Radio. He brings over 40 years experience as a broadcast journalist and news executive in Richmond, Washington D.C. and New York. Charles was also a long-time television news anchor and news director in Richmond.
Detailed census figures come out later this week that will show Virginia’s dramatically shifting population and challenge the General Assembly to insure fair representation. But as Charles Fishburne reports, redistricting is not always about being fair.
The GRTC Transit system has announced its first fare increase in 17 years, with higher rates to go into effect the first of next month. Charles Fishburne reports.
Chesterfield County will construct a fence with locked gates around the Cloverleaf Mall Property next week because of vandalism and trash dumping. But as Charles Fishburne reports, the county still has hopes it will eventually emerge as a multi-million dollar retail and residential center.
There may be a significant breakthrough in the case of a Virginia Tech student, whose remains were found on an Albermarle County Farm, three months after she disappeared from a rock concert at UVA. Charles Fishburne reports.
Virginia’s challenge to federal health-care reform appears to be on the fast track to the US Supreme Court, following yesterday’s hearing before a US District Judge in Richmond. Charles Fishburne reports.
Richmond’s Federal Reserve Bank today is opening a new, six million dollar exhibit, free to the public to help people understand the economy and their part in it. Charles Fishburne reports.
Residents of Chesterfield County, along with the Tri-Cities area and Prince George and Dinwiddie counties are being asked to conserve water. Charles Fishburne reports.,
The first 70 mile-an-hour speed limit in Virginia goes into effect today on a section of Interstate 295, but as Charles Fishburne reports, higher limits could come to hundreds of miles of Virginia interstates.
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and the FBI are hosting a conference on agroterrorism tomorrow, and as Charles Fishburne reports, it will play to a packed house.
