Hot topic [January 11]
This year’s General Assembly is up to its neck in potential legislation on illegal immigration.
Change is afoot [January 10]
The New Year is already bringing some changes to the local political and educational landscape.
Perriello to Goode: Let’s get it on [January 9]
Four months of fundraising has made Albemarle county native Tom Perriello the Democratic challenger to Virgil Goode, Bob Gibson of The Daily Progress reported today.
Correction from January 1 issue
Due to a production error, the subject of the picture accompanying the article “Deeds explains early election launch” in last week’s Government News section was misidentified as Brian Moran. The picture is of Brian’s older brother, Jim. We apologize for the confusion.
We Ate Here
Little-known fact: Splendora’s is open for breakfast, and if you hustle you’ll get there even before the vats of gelato are set out in the big glass cases. (Why you’d want to? Just ‘cause.) We let our eyes roam over the pastries until they settled on a humble-looking currant scone. It was the round type, […]
Greetings from Second Life!
Brent Tamura was born a full-grown man on January 15, 2007, tall and muscular with tan skin and a thickly knotted head of black hair. He is a Capricorn by birth, his ambition and practicality tempered by an occasional shyness.
Road to ruins
The Compton House, a.k.a. the former Beta Theta House, is now but a pile of rubble. Yet though its driveway is now a road to nowhere, the Thomas Jefferson Scholars Foundation sees this as a road to knowledge. Architecture firm VMDO is designing a 22,000-square-foot center to accommodate a growing number of graduate student fellowships. […]
Follow-up
Wendell Wood has at last gotten a lease for 40,000 square feet of rental space to be used by the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC), a lease he has long been hoping for (and which he suggested to the county Board of Supervisors in August was all but guaranteed). On November 30, the U.S. General […]
Other News We Heard Last Week
Tuesday, January 1 Kaine stumps for Obama Virginia Governor Tim Kaine stumped for Barack Obama (pictured) days before his Iowa victory. Days away from the Iowa caucus, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine joins presidential candidate Barack Obama as the Senator travels from Sioux City to Council Bluffs, reports today’s Baltimore Sun. Along the way, he is […]
You’re invited to our virtual reality
Join C-VILLE writer Erika Howsare and Miles Fowler in Second Life for a discussion of this week’s cover story on Thursday, January 10, from 5-6pm. To attend, register and create an avatar at secondlife.com or simply log in to Second Life on your home computer. Use the “Search” option to locate the group named “Charlottesvilleans […]