At Agnor Hurt Elementary, local citizens got their first crack at the Places29 Northern Urban Area Master Plan when they were split up into small groups to discuss the county’s grand design for the territory that stretches from Hydraulic Road clear up Route 29 past the airport. A county staffer—who for the evening became a […]
No rise in minimum wageAlso, payday lenders get by with no new regulations “For ye have the poor always with you,” Jesus Christ says in Matthew 26:11. Virginia seems to have resigned itself to this fact. Multiple attempts to raise the minimum wage—currently at $5.15—in the most recent legislative session were defeated at the hands […]
music Last fall, I attended the Flaming Lips’ gloriously flamboyant show at the Charlottesville Pavilion. Deerfhoof opened that night and they seemed dwarfed by the whole thing: the set, the venue, the Lips. On Saturday night, though, they dominated the closed confines of the Satellite Ballroom, saturating the room with brilliant white noise. Deerhoof’s John […]
For the four members of Charlottesville’s Board of Architectural Review (BAR) (www.charlottesville.org) that were around in 2004, the night of February 20 offered a moment of déjà vu. The application for a nine-storey, 86,000-square-foot, 100-room hotel was the same exact submittal the BAR approved three years ago for the site of the former Central Fidelity […]
The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the rights of American citizens by placing a number of restraints on the government. “Individual rights are not meant to make the government’s job easier,” says Albemarle Delegate Rob Bell. “They’re meant to make it harder.” One restriction the Bill of Rights sought to impose was […]
“I’m an improviser,” announced Bobby Seale (www.bobbyseale.com), once Black Panther Party (BPP) (www.bp.org) chairman, during his February 22 address to a packed Harris-Small Auditorium. And for an hour and a half, he stuck to form, delivering a rambling but illuminating recital of the group’s beginnings. Invited to speak as part of Black History Month, Seale—sartorially […]
After years of wrangling, Charlottesville’s bus transfer center is finally set to open on the east end of the Downtown Mall: Officials eye March 26 as the date that the Charlottesville Transit Center will actually begin service.
Approximately a year and a half ago, Michelle King was in the lab testing how cells expressing the protein tau react to different compounds. “I wanted to watch them live while I added different things to the culture to see if something happened,”
Charged with the lofty task of establishing a “living wage” for the poorest of County employees, the Board of Supervisors (www.albemarle.org) met with the County School Board (www.K12.albemarle.org/board) February 14 to review the findings of a joint board committee. Comprising two supervisors and two School Board members, the committee presented two options for an hourly […]
“It’s the death of humanity,” local activist John Salidas exclaimed, and as he did so, he leaned in, giving his already harsh assessment an extra push. His pale eyes burned. Tara Rowan Boyd, general recipient