Definitely not VA. We have to kick the clowns out before we are lucky enough for that.
Which Richmond??
Richmond, California. It really should have been somewhere in the article.
I knew Virginia was too good to be true.
It’s a hyper local Contra Costa county news site. I imagine the vast majority of their readers are not outside of the county or state.
Being hyper local how is any reader outside of Contra Costa supposed to know what state the county is in? Or even that it's a county for that matter. It isn't difficult to write the word California literally one time anywhere.
At the very least OP should’ve just called in out in the title since this a regional Lemmy community. I don’t expect a small site like this to put “California” in after every mention of their cities when 99.99% of their readers are probably from California.
Here is the first article for the local news in the Richmond, VA area currently. Notice that they start by listing the county as "Hanover County, VA"
It really isn't that hard nor is it an inconvenience for the readers.
Maybe it’s a San Francisco Bay Area thing, but people around those parts just don’t distinguish their city from Virgina’s. Even most of the big Hearst papers and KQED just say “Richmond.”
I’m honestly surprised that Richmond, CA didn’t have ranked choice voting yet. Most of the surrounding cities, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, etc all have it now. It’s no longer a fringey thing in northern CA.
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