Editor's Note: Meet the ex-journalist who helped revolutionize political transparency in Virginia

Brian Kelley

If you haven’t heard, there’s an author with local ties appearing in Roanoke this week for the launch of an important new book.

No, not just the illustrious Beth Macy, whose latest book, “Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America,” will be celebrated at a book launch Thursday evening in Charter Hall at the Roanoke City Market Building, as columnist Dan Casey reported last week .

Instead, I’m talking about David Poole, whose book, ”Trusted Source: How a Virginia Nonprofit Gained Bipartisan Support in an Era of Political Polarization,” was published in August by the University of Virginia Press.

David returns to Roanoke this week to talk about the founding and success of the Virginia Public Access Project, a nonprofit that helped revolutionize access