Biscuit Run

Previous coverage: Enough staff for Biscuit Run proffers?County official hopes for gentle wind in dealing with complex promises Biscuit Run: This too has passedCraig says he, not large corporation, will see project through Supes candidates address Biscuit RunIs the development good for the community? Developers wrangle over proffersHollymead, Biscuit Run push for less, county pulls […]

Follow-up

With the two-year controversy over the second vehicular crossing at the east end of the Downtown Mall having finally ended in December, it took comparatively no time for the city Planning Commission to affirm February 26 that the crossing should remain at Fourth Street rather than move to Fifth Street. Commissioners did complain that too […]

Crash landing

Plaintiff: Norma Carrubba Defendant: United Airlines What’s at issue: Whether the airline was negligent for a fall Carrubba suffered while exiting an airplane. Carrubba’s complaint in U.S. District Court claims that on December 1, 2006, the Greene County resident boarded a plane in Charlottesville headed for Cleveland. In Cleveland, winds were at 45mph and it […]

The hidden life of UVA

Kathy Tejano Year: Senior Age: 21 Hometown: Fairfax, Virginia Major: Systems engineering, with economics minor What’s in your backpack? Snowboard magazine, notebook, schedule, Personal Finance, green iPod mini, flash drive, chocolate chip granola bar, UVA sweatshirt, water bottle, pens, pencils, eraser, cell phone, wallet, contact lens solution, contact lens case, Portuguese/English mini dictionary, a couple […]

Other News We Heard Last Week

Dispense with the Old: A new season has begun for Phil Gosselin and the rest of the UVA baseball team, who racked up a 7-3 victory last Wednesday against Old Dominion. Tuesday 2/26 NFL backs down from churches Last year, the NFL told an Indianapolis church to cancel a Super Bowl party because it planned […]

Car business ain’t booming [March 1]

Auto sales are down, but not at Colonial Auto Center. That’s according to an AP story that quotes Colonial’s president Kip Rowe, who says that sales of foreign brands will save his company from lower February numbers than it posted in the same month last year. (Ford and GM models are selling much worse for […]

“Whitest Kids” and greenest booze [March 2]

Back with a castmate from a trip to Los Angeles, 27-year-old Trevor Moore, former host of local public access comedy show “The Trevor Moore Show” and currently one of five members of New York-based sketch comedy troupe the Whitest Kids U’ Know, decided to introduce his colleagues (and New York Times columnist Amanda Stern) to […]