Tuesday, April 26 County’s McKeel aims for 12 years on School Board Diantha McKeel announced her candidacy for the Albemarle County School Board today. Jim Kennan introduced her on the steps of the County Office Building by saying if the School Board were graded, McKeel would earn straight As. If re-elected for a third four-year […]
Angst and network news go together like—oh, like Simon and Garfunkel, whose popularity peaked around the same time that Walter Cron-kite was signing off with the comforting fiction “that’s the way it is.” For more than a quarter of a century, the audience for the three evening network newscasts has been both shrinking and aging, […]
Tuesday, April 19 Taxes the focus of Kaine’s town hall meeting here Earlysville resident Ann Mallek says she’s seen it happen many times in her neighborhood. “People living in little farmhouses are suddenly surrounded by $800,000 homes,” she says, “their assessments go up through no fault of their own.” Real estate taxes are a major […]
A recent online survey showed that more than one-third of us think that once we die, we end up in some kind of merit-based afterlife, like Heaven or Hell. Another 29 percent figure we go nowhere—we’re just dead. Well, yes and no. No matter where you think you’ll end up in the long run, you’re […]
Tuesday, April 12 Next time, take the stairs Downtown pedestrians got a little excitement today, and gratefully avoided injury, when Cheryl Longnecker accidentally backed her Subaru Outback up the stairs of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Longnecker was attempting to parallel park her car on Market Street when her right foot, which was covered by a […]
Hey Ace: I just noticed that the crosswalks from the Emmet/Ivy intersection all the way to Jefferson Park Avenue are green and white instead of the customary black and white zebra crossing. I love the white/lime green combo—it really goes well with my wardrobe—but why the new style?—J. Crewe Oh dahling, didn’t you know? Save […]
“Freedom of expression cannot be limited without being lost.” Thomas Jefferson Robert O’Neil takes TJ’s words very seriously. As executive director of the Pantops-based Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, each year he oversees the awarding of Jefferson Muzzles. The search for censorship in America brings a wide swath of culture within […]
Tuesday, April 5 Filmmaker tells “untold story” of AIDS Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Sharon Sopher screened her latest work, HIV Goddesses, to a full house tonight at the UVA Medical Center. The film documents Sopher’s life as she struggles to come to terms with the disease, which she contracted while working in Africa. In the post-film […]
Tuesday, March 29Deeds in, runs as a regular guy Local Democratic activists turned out at Bashir’s Taverna during a perfect Mall afternoon to hear Sen. Creigh Deeds make it official: he wants to be your next State Attorney General. Joined by his wife and their four children, he spoke as a friend of “everyday families.” […]
Tuesday, March 22 For use in case of emergencies A Planned Parenthood survey shows that if other methods fail, for the women of Charlottesville, emergency contraception is relatively accessible. Collecting data today from local pharmacies as part of national Back Up Your Birth Control Day, PP found that more than 90 percent carry emergency contraception […]