Tuesday, July 27 Cheap labor in Charlottesville State Farm Insurance today announced a reorganization that will add 200 to 300 new jobs in its Charlottesville office. The local branch, which currently employs 1,100, had been in the midst of shedding 150 positions—leaving a significant net gain. Frederick, Maryland, was the loser in State Farm’s consolidation, […]
Tuesday, July 20 Red tape for Capshaw County planners today voted on early language for the Fifth Street/Avon Street development, a 90-acre Coran Capshaw venture just beyond the city’s southern border. Planners rejected a request from Capshaw’s team to designate the space a “regional service” area, voting 5-2 for language that instead stresses community- and […]
Tuesday, June 15 The Freshman 100 UVA today held a meeting in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom with about 100 local residents to discuss the school’s many plans for growth. Though the lengthy presentation by UVA architect David J. Neuman had the somnolent effect of an academic lecture, several specifics emerged. Neuman said the incoming freshman […]
Tuesday, March 30 We’re No. 61! In addition to scoring big in the much ballyhooed “best places to live” ranking, our area was rated in today’s release of an annual toxic chemical survey from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. First place was definitely not desirable in this list, which tallied the amount of toxic […]
Attention, Giant shoppers Wal-Mart-fueled benefits dispute comes to local groceries Checkout lines might not be the only lines Giant Food shoppers spot during visits to the two Charlottesville stores this week. Workers from the region’s Giant and Safeway grocery stores will vote on a new contract on March 30, and signs are pointing to a […]
The home front Foster parents open their doors while localities search for cash Evelyn and George Riner want more kids. From the prodigious amount of laundry flapping from sagging clotheslines in their backyard, it would seem their household is already overflowing. In fact, 11 people, nine dogs and eight cats live in the Riners’ house […]
Inside the studio of East Village Radio on the weekend before the New Hampshire primary, the hip hop activists cue up their mental scripts while awkwardly climbing past each other for their turn at the mic. The low-power underground FM station broadcasts from a Manhattan storefront the size of walk-in closet. As is often the […]
The South shall rise Downtown goes modern with newest building projects During contemplative moments, John Gibson looks up from his desk on the fourth floor of the City Center for Contemporary Art on the corner of Water and Second streets, and gazes out the window at the bricks of the Jefferson Theater’s fly loft. During […]
Benefits struggle begins again “Insure our families,” say gay UVA staff When Ellen Bass, an assistant professor in the department of systems and information engineering at UVA, came to the University two years ago, she knew she and her lesbian partner would have problems with the school’s stance on domestic partner benefits. “I knew I […]
You’ve got love Hope and hookups on match.com When “Cynthia’s” husband died last year, the 51-year-old mother of five grown children felt lonely, but terrified to reenter the dating scene. “It was like I had to get a whole new life,” says Cynthia, who asked not to be identified by her real name. “And they […]