Live in the present: McDonnell, Bolling and Cuccinelli received $53,667 in gifts
Are Virginia’s leaders less gifted than their predecessors? In a manner of speaking, yes
From the mouths of babes
Barring a constitutional amendment from the General Assembly, more than 2,000 area students may soon learn the significance of the old adage: “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” According to the U.S. Department of Agri-culture, 43 million citizens use food stamps. A new opinion, requested by Rep. John O’Bannon and penned by Attorney […]
Proposed 14th Street Hotel requests nine more rooms
A special use permit for the hotel would bump the number of rooms from 31 to 40, and the number of daily car trips to 196 from 123
UPDATE: David Lee Cowan, 30, killed in first Charlottesville homicide this year
At 2:45am, law enforcement responded to gun shots near Run Street, which intersects 10th Street NW near Westhaven, the city’s largest and oldest public housing development
Rutherford Institute represents student expelled for pellet incident
John Whitehead’s local civil rights firm will represent 14-year-old Andrew Mikel II, expelled from his high school for spitting plastic pellets at classmates
Patently obvious
The UVA Patent Foundation recently announced that university inventors received 32 U.S. patents in 2010—a record number, according to Miette Michie, interim executive director of the foundation.
Ken Boyd's Hollymead headache grows
Albemarle County Supervisor Ken Boyd faced nearly two hours of ire from more than 100 county residents last week, over a proposal to redesignate 140 acres south of Hollymead Town Center into the county growth area.
Barboursville brothers plead guilty to DVD piracy in Charlottesville court
Fidel Palacios-Cruz and Rosalio Palacios-Cruz were arrested last year in Albemarle County when law enforcement caught the pair unloading a one-ton shipment of DVDs and CDs
Kluge update: Sonabank buys back Vineyard Estates lots for $4.9 million
Neither former winery owner Patricia Kluge nor her husband and partner, William Moses, attended this morning’s foreclosure auction for the luxury Vineyard Estates development
JPA Bridge renovation speeds up; will Belmont Bridge work slow down?
In July, C-VILLE reported that the Jefferson Park Avenue (JPA) Bridge was headed towards a 16-month, $10.5 million renovatio