Finally, a little good news for Charlottesville in the national media: The city made tech and financial headlines last week when mobile company Ting announced it was buying a controlling share in locally owned Blue Ridge InternetWorks as part of a plan to expand a lightning-fast fiber optic cable network here. Ting entered the wireless […]
This updated and expanded story, which appeared in print Wednesday, January 7, includes reporting from a previous, shorter piece on the Sage Smith investigation that ran online on December 24. To read the original post, scroll down for the next page. More than two years after Dashad Sage Smith* went missing, recently unsealed court documents offer information about […]
Dominion has filed suit against holdout landowners in Nelson and Augusta counties who since May have refused to let the energy company survey their land for its proposed 550-mile natural gas pipeline. According to Dominion spokesman Jim Norvelle, the company filed 20 suits in Nelson County and 27 more in Augusta County last Thursday and […]
Dominion’s plans for a 550-mile natural gas pipeline through Virginia are marching ahead, and with the release of the company’s first reports to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), anti-pipeline activists in Nelson County are finding more reasons to rally opposition to the multi-billion-dollar project. The federal approval process requires companies to file a dozen […]
Again and again in the national debate over UVA’s handling of campus sexual assault that followed Rolling Stone’s explosive and discredited story about an alleged gang rape, news outlets—including this one—have stated that the University has never expelled a student over accusations of sexual misconduct. That, it turns out, isn’t true, but you have to […]
It’s a Wednesday night, and in the basement of a converted home at 315 10th St. NE in Charlottesville’s Martha Jefferson neighborhood, seven HIV-positive men are sharing Subway sandwiches and soda and talking about viral loads. Actually, they’re talking about all kinds of things: growing up as the only black boy in a class of […]
As criticism of shortcomings in its reporting of an alleged 2012 gang rape at UVA reached a fever pitch, Rolling Stone magazine’s managing editor today issued a mea culpa, saying the publication now has doubts about the account given by Jackie, the 20-year-old University student whose story launched a firestorm of reaction in Charlottesville and beyond, including a […]
Early on a Tuesday morning last month, Sarah Francisco got an e-mail she’d been waiting years to receive. Francisco, a senior attorney at the Virginia office of the Southern Environmental Law Center in Charlottesville, is the conservation group’s point person on the U.S. Forest Service’s long-delayed management plan for Virginia’s George Washington National Forest. The […]
This story is part of our ongoing coverage in the wake of the Rolling Stone story on rape at UVA. There’s more: An in-depth look at the University’s sexual assault policy, a Q&A with Board of Visitors member Helen Dragas on her reaction to the story, responses from two women who reported their own rapes while students, a […]
UVA’s Board of Visitors voted unanimously in a special meeting today to commit to a zero tolerance policy for sexual assault. The meeting came six days after the publication of an explosive report by Rolling Stone detailing a reported 2012 gang rape at a fraternity and a culture of covering up sexual assaults on Grounds. The […]