Tuesday, December 11Squirrel shuts down Charlottesville Charlottesville, we have a squirrel problem. In addition to absconding with all our nuts and generally chattering loudly, squirrels have now attacked our power grid, depriving 1,400 buildings in the Downtown area of electricity from early Monday morning into mid-afternoon, reports The Daily Progress. Apparently, a squirrel got wedged […]
New Jersey has become the first state in more than four decades to abolish the death penalty, reports today’s Baltimore Sun. Thirty six states still allow executions, however, while 35 of them, including Virginia, use lethal injection. "Jerry Givens could be your next door neighbor. A gentle man from Richmond," an ABC News segment began […]
Only one member of a five-person board was able to vote to fund solid waste services in the city and county, reports today's Daily Progress.
Nell Boeschenstein, former C-VILLE staff writer, current graduate student at Columbia University…
A new report released today by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) paints a dire picture of the current patterns of growth in Virginia, linking the energy costs of suburban sprawl to global warming.
State senator (and Albemarle rep) Creigh Deeds has announced his candidacy for state governor.
The awards just keep rolling in for UVA defensive end Chris Long. After garnering enough votes to finished 10th in the Heisman race…
David Works, a descendant of Thomas Jefferson who has tried to reconcile racial divisions, was wounded in the Colorado shootings over the weekend…
"The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem," says Rob Gordon…
When the 1972 The National Commission On Marihuana And Drug Abuse titled its study: Marihuana: A Signal Of Misunderstanding (http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/nc/ncmenu.htm) and recommended legalizing adult use of cannabis, people were surprised ["Prof almost got pot past Nixon," UVA News, November 20, 2007]. Instead of the fictions made up by the drug warriors for over 30 years, […]