Election day has come and gone, heralding a new era of Democratic dominance in Albemarle County. But Republicans are agitating for further investigation into the activity of a local advocacy group they say stepped over the line in the weeks leading up to election day by operating as an unregistered PAC. “It seems like there’s […]
For more of our election wrap coverage, check c-ville.com throughout the day. To see the blow-by-blow from last night, scroll back through our election day liveblog. After a late night waiting on a delayed vote count, Charlottesville Democrats celebrated big wins on election day, with incumbent Kristin Szakos and her running mate Bob Fenwick taking […]
Seven stories above the “Coming summer 2009” sign that’s still plastered above a boarded-up ground floor entryway of what was to be the Landmark Hotel, a splash of colorful graffiti blooms across a bare concrete ceiling. It’s not the only street art to grace the unfinished building that looms over Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall. Somebody’s tagged the inside of […]
Last Tuesday afternoon, 300 people assembled cross-legged on the Lawn outside UVA’s Rotunda as famed spiritual leader and M.D. Deepak Chopra led a mass meditation session. “Hold your hand up like this,” he said into his mic. Up went hundreds of fists. If the hand was a brain, “this would be your spinal cord, and […]
On his 78th birthday last week, Montgomery “Bird” Woods led a four-wheeler tour of some of the 410-acre Red Hill property he explored as a boy and is spending his retirement enjoying with his partner, Jose Lambert. “This was a loading dock for apples,” Woods said, pointing out a tumble of rocks near a high […]
David Toscano considers himself a consensus-builder, not a party man. “By nature, I’m not a particularly partisan person,” he said during a recent interview in his High Street law office. “I believe in this idea that if you have rational discussion, you can change peoples’ views.” But the PowerPoint pulled up on the laptop on […]
The Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards have a message for you: Plant trees in the fall. They also have everything you need to get that done. The volunteer group, known as CATS, is launching its first-ever autumn tree sales, offering hundreds of hardwoods at rock-bottom prices at the October 12 City Market in the Water Street […]
When Woolen Mills residents packed the historic chapel at the far end of Market Street last Thursday for the latest Our Town Charlottesville meeting with City Council members, concerns over cut-through traffic and sewage stench dominated the public forum. But a question bigger than any one neighborhood also arose: Why doesn’t the city pay more […]
Funding for the National Institutes of Health was thrust into the spotlight last week as canceled clinical trials for cancer patients became another flashpoint in the ongoing government shutdown standoff in Washington, D.C. The agency may serve as a high-profile pawn in a partisan budget battle, but for local researchers who depend on NIH grants, […]
The dean of UVA’s College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Meredith Jung-En Woo, announced in a letter to students and faculty Monday that she will step down next May. Woo came to UVA from the University of Michigan in 2008 on a five-year contract. It was extended for an additional year last spring. […]