Parallax Project and Oenoverse co-founder and UVA School of Data Science associate director of career connections and community engagement Reggie Leonard shares thoughts on how to spend a day in Charlottesville: When I think about my perfect Charlottesville Day, I’ll give myself the constraint of a weekday/workday. I love unexpectedly warm days, when I’m working […]
Again this year, C-VILLE asked readers to capture the beauty, agony, or mystery of love—in just 17 syllables. They signed, sealed, and delivered haikus that both broke our hearts and put them back together. Here’s our winner and 10 runners-up. Happy Valentine’s Day! FIRST PLACE The wise wind sighs, timeTo soar, sweetest butterfly;I’ll never let […]
Each year, C-VILLE Weekly and WriterHouse team up for a fiction contest. Some years have centered around themes, while others have been completely left up to the writers’ imaginations. This year, the only caveat was that the piece had to be a work of “flash fiction”—500 words or fewer. David Ronka’s “The One I Think […]
I applaud your publishing Pete Armetta\’s article on the mental health services public funding crisis [“Opinionated,” May 30]. Under-funded mental health services mean under-treated people, and one of the tragic results of untreated mental illness
is suicide.
Radio FidoI was very happy to see the article by Sheila Pell about the proposed NAIS system in the “Government News” section of your May 16 issue. The Department of Homeland Security has joined with the USDA to try to create a way to protect consumers from diseases like “Mad Cow Disease” and Avian Flu. […]
Housing rights(and wrongs) I would like to take issue with Joy Johnson’s comments at the Left of Center’s meeting on Tuesday, May 9, as featured in “Development News” of the C-VILLE dated May 16-22. Ms. Johnson stated that “housing is a right.” Stating that housing is a “right” is not only incorrect, but it is […]
Lillian Mezey’s “Opinionated” column [May 6] was right on. The bottom-line isâwhere is the real protection for the rural areas?
In the opinion piece by Bob Hodous [Opinionated, April 18], the local Repub-lican Committee Chair forgot to inform us about Rob Schilling’s background.