Editor’s Note: What we need is backbone
Last week, I joked in the introduction to our feature that I wasn’t 100 percent sure what power was.
Don’t I know you? Getting reacquainted with Teresa Sullivan
UVA President Teresa Sullivan grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas until the age of 13, when her family moved to Jackson, Mississippi, where she went on to become valedictorian at St. Joseph’s High School, the first high school in the state to integrate, in 1967. “We were all touched by those times. They were what […]
Editor's Note: What we can learn from Dragas-gate and the revolution on Grounds
By the time this paper comes out, the information in it may be out of date. That’s always true as I write this column, but this week it carries extra weight, since the UVA Board of Visitors could vote Tuesday afternoon to reinstate President Teresa Sullivan.
Editor's Note: You say you want a revolution
There’s no sign of revolution in Charlottesville as I write this. It’s a rainy, off-season Monday morning. No tanks in the streets.
ESPN's coverage of Euro 2012 is rotten
Anybody who knows me well knows that I’m obsessed with soccer. I maintained a nearly game-by-game Arsenal blog for close to two years
Editor's Note: School's out for the summer
The equinox pretty nearly marks the beginning of the spring season in Charlottesville, but summer outpaces its solstice.
Editor's Note: The daily news
Everyone was talking news last week. First, we learned that Warren Buffett was coming to a store near us, and then the Oracle of Omaha delivered a prophecy (in a letter to his editors and publishers) to make a newsman glow.
New generation of veterans looks to each other for support
Memorial Day is a day to remember people who have died serving the country. It’s not a veterans’ holiday, but veterans do more of that kind of remembering than the rest of us, so it hits them differently.
Editor's Note: You have to love it to protect it
My favorite section of the Rivanna Trail is a cul de sac. Bordered by razor wire on one side and a road on the other, it forms a looped pocket trail near the confluence of Meadow Creek and the Rivanna River.