Could tax rebate seal Waterhouse deal?

 Thanks to actions last week by Charlottesville City Council and the Board of Architectural Review (BAR), architect Bill Atwood’s Waterhouse project has quickly thawed from glacier to geyser. One day after council unanimously signed off on its first resolution for a tax increment financing rebate—don’t worry, we’ll explain it in the third paragraph—the BAR approved […]

Well, we still need water

 For both fans and foes of the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority’s (RWSA) 50-year Community Water Supply Plan, glasses will remain half-full or half-empty until expansion studies of the Ragged Mountain Reservoir and Lower Ragged Mountain Dam are completed. On Friday, the RWSA released a review of engineering firm Gannett Fleming’s 2004 water demand analysis, […]

John Hunter rumored as a speaker at TED conference

Local gifted education teacher John Hunter spent the end of July at the annual EduStat conference, where he was a featured speaker alongside a former chief learning officer for the Central Intelligence Agency and the co-founder of JetBlue Airways. By the following week, the subject of local filmmaker Chris Farina’s documentary World Peace…and Other Fourth […]