Charlottesville cyclist is dope-free
NPR has a story this morning on Charlottesville native Will Frischkorn and another cyclist from the Garmin-Chipotle team that is currently third in this year’s Tour de France.
Acitvists bring mock Bush to Mall to protest possible war on Iran
Around 6 pm tonight, a few volunteers for Charlottesvillepeace.org stood by the Free Speech wall and asked people to sign a petition to Charlottesville City Council imploring them to take an official stand against the chance the U.S. might go to war against Iraq’s northern neighbor.
Coming to terms with the city’s homeless problem
Previous coverage: Hope Community Center helps get jobs for two homelessFollow-up Residents question Hope shelter [April 22]Edwards: Haven’t talked about homelessness in “comprehensive” way Area homeless numbers rise [April 8]Children counted doubles I first wrote about area poverty and homelessness a little more than a year ago, and that is when I met Tom Shadyac. […]
Sad kids smarter than happy ones, says UVA study
A healthcare weekly reports today on research conducted by psychologists at UVA and the University of Plymouth (in the UK) that seems to show that where attention to detail is required, happy children may be at a disadvantage.
Feds review county DSS's translation services
Albemarle County’s Department of Social Services (DSS) is at risk of losing funding if it cannot comply with federal requirements to provide adequate language translation to
Lit scholar takes on Cartman, Bart and Captain Kirk
“Maybe I’ll wear my shades,” says Paul Cantor. The UVA English professor flips a set of clip-on sunglasses down over his regular frames and leans back in a black metal chair on the Downtown Mall. “I lead a double life.” While Cantor teaches on elitist seeming subjects like Homer and Shakespeare in a university setting, […]
Would rebricking wreck or enhance Halprin design?
I have walked the Downtown Mall several times a day for the past year in my job at C-VILLE, but I have seldom noticed the disrepair of its 32-year-old bricks.
Federal FOIA suit filed against Army
Jayson Whitehead v. the United States Department of the Army is now official. More than a year and a half after filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the appraisal of Wendell Wood’s land that was sold to the Army in 2006, I have now had to sue in federal court. In late […]
War Powers Commission makes recommendations
Just days after our war-mongering president came to Monticello, a commission established to address over-reaching like his has released its recommendations today.
City, stores clash over carts
Ten years ago, Dave Taylor opened the Read It Again, Sam used bookstore, and as a way of pulling in customers, he placed waist-high racks of paperback fiction outside his front door on the bricks of the Downtown Mall. “Twenty-five percent of my business is from the carts,” he says. A decade later, however, Taylor […]