Mormon leader dies [January 28]
Gordon B. Hinckley, 97-year-old president of the Mormon Church, died in Salt Lake City on January 27.
Shot down [January 24]
Survivors of last year’s shooting tragedy at Virginia Tech have been dealt a blow in their effort to do close the gun show loophole.
UVA ties for first-place in black student enrollment [January 23]
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports today that UVA tied Columbia University for first place in black student enrollment at “top-ranked” universities.
Jones named new assistant city manager [January 23]
Maurice Jones is set for a second go-round of working for the city.
Body counting [January 19]
How many soldiers are dead in the Culpeper National Cemetery? Answer: All of them! As of 2006, the number of interments at the Culpeper veterans cemetery totaled more than 10,000 across roughly 30 acres and, with a total of nearly 737,000 veterans in the state, more than a few will buy the farm within a […]
Immigrant defender speaks out [January 20]
Undocumented workers aren’t likely to speak up in public places where their legal status can be readily questioned, so they’re not likely to speak out against the plethora of bills in the state General Assembly that would make their lives more miserable. That’s where Tim Freilich, director for the Legal Aid Justice Center’s Immigrant Advocacy […]
Corn not growing? Plant more corn! [January 21]
The Associated Press reported today that Virginia corn, soybean and cotton crops suffered a decline in production in 2007.
Follow up
C-VILLE thought that rural area protections would be a high priority for the new Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, and we were right: Amended versions of ordinances to restrict family subdivisions, driveways on steep slopes and building near streams will be the subject of a work session Wednesday, January 23. Now that he has Biscuit […]
Correction from January 15 issue
Due to production and proofreading errors, the grid in last week’s crossword puzzle didn’t correspond to the questions below it, making the puzzle impossible to solve, even for all the crossword puzzle experts out there. To make amends, in this issue we’re running last week’s corrected puzzle (page 44 of print issue), as well as […]