Late on Tuesday night, July 11, the Beights Development found itself back before the Albemarle County Planning Commission, more than four years after they first received approval to install a ConSpan bridge crossing at Mosby Mountain Stream to provide a northern entrance to the Mosby Mountain residential development. Although residential construction has been finished for […]
Although Virginia residents still have four months until they will decide on a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage statewide, they are about to be barraged by groups eager to sway voters one way or another. Based in Richmond, the Commonwealth Coalition was formed specifically to fight the Marshall/Newman amendment. “We are working […]
The contentious melee that mired the State legislature in a three-month delay\-he longest everâfinally reached some sort of resolution on Wednesday, June 28 when members of the Virginia House of Delegates approved a $72 billion state budget (minus $22 million Republicans stripped out at the last minute).
Fifth District Congressman Virgil Goode is trying to make political hay with the debate over illegal immigration, but so far his litany of bills isn’t going anywhere. In the current congressional term, Goode has co-sponsored 11 bills and three resolutions that target illegal immigrants. All the bills, however, are stuck in committee and did not […]
On Tuesday, June 13, a sea of people packed the Albemarle Planning Commission meeting. Most were Mill Creek residents fearful of the impact of the proposed Biscuit Run development near Old Lynchburg Road, which has the potential to house 5,000 new lots, and up to 12,000 new residents, on its 1,300 acres.
Rarely does someone get to vote on their own salaryâbut on Wednesday, June 7, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors did exactly that when they agreed to raise their yearly compensation to a robust $13,530 from the paltry sum of $13,016. The 3.95 percent boost matched the yearly increase for all County employees.
Do you get mad when you find a $25 parking ticket stuck under your windshield wiper? Then imagine CBS\’ reaction on March 15 when the Federal Communications Commission fined it a record $3.6 million for airing “indecent” material in an episode of “Without a Trace.” The network, along with Fox (which was also penalized for a separate incident), fired back by filing suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
The hottest new market for local real estate magnates is… Lynchburg? You heard it right. That stodgy bastion of religious conservatism, home of Jerry Falwell, is poised for an urban renaissance. A pair of local builders have become major players in Lynchburg, saying the real estate market there is poised to make huge gains in the coming years.