The Mud Pit

It doesn’t look too bad to me–at first I thought it was a little silly but it seems like a webpage with a primarily government (rather than tourism, etc) function. There’s what look like press releases in the center and constituent services on the side. Granted, there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of activities/city news outside what the government is doing, but it doesn’t seem lacking either. It’s not a newspaper or a tourist group, and the richmond newspapers I had access to when I was there for 3 weeks weren’t much better–at least this has services provided for people.

The older I get the more I think that everything is political.

I just updated the post.

The mayor’s facetime is excessive compared to the sites for other capitol cities. Quite a few sites had either a picture of their mayor or a message, but nothing near what Richmond has. Whenever possible I found a site that focused mostly on government rather than tourism. Apples to apples as much as possible.

Not that there is really a point to this.

That makes more sense. Though to me it still sounds like they don’t have much talent in their press department if everything comes back to him. And a lot of that could be politics as well–if someone in the mayor’s office maintains the site, then of course they’ll write it that way and not see any issue with it.
Also, I’m used to seeing this because I’m working for Congress and that’s how we’re supposed to do things here–a little different though, since we’re supposed to be about politics.