Carol Diggs

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Made to last

While some locals lament the passing of small-town Charlottesville, tucked away in the Belmont neighborhood is a...

Building space

Anne Lassere is the very model of a young woman whose career is about to take off. Competent, confident, poised and...

Locally grown

Most small farmers could use a little green. That’s the idea behind Slow Money Central Virginia, a micro-finance...

Start me up

Are entrepreneurs born or made? Doesn’t matter to Chip Ransler, executive director of HackCville—he’ll take someone...

#MeToo effect

Since 2017, when the #MeToo movement galvanized women across the country to speak out about sexual abuse and assault,...

Telling all the stories

In 2010, Charlene Green, now head of Charlottesville’s Office of Human Rights, was directing the city’s first...

Mall rats

Many Charlottesvillians spent the last few weeks enjoying a festive holiday season on the Downtown Mall. But have we...

Divestment

In the wake of recent U.N. and U.S. government reports on the catastrophic environmental damage already attributable...

Listen Up

As Charlottesville’s character has broadened, so has its classical music scene, which is now largely driven by...

Slaying shame

The confirmation of conservative Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court has raised fears that Roe v. Wade could be...