June will mark the final month on City Council for Blake Caravati, Charlottesville\’s premier rhetorician. For the past eight years, Caravati has baffled supporters and opponents alike with more non sequitur folkisms than H. Ross Perot.
When a brawl involving UVA athletes broke out at the Delta Upsilon fraternity house in early March, some local officials fretted about an increase in criminal incidents involving students and predicted a forum to address bad behavior. Now, however, most of the students involved have been punished or at least passed through the court system, and any furor raised by the scuffle seems to have subsided. Below is an up-to-date list of students arrested in the fight, and the outcome of their court appearances.
When William Harvey arrived at UVA in November, the campus was still in full boil over a series of racial incidentsâepithets yelled from a passing car, racial slurs anonymously scrawled on dry erase boards.
As summer approaches, City and County officials are supposed to be coming up with a coordinated drought-management plan that will set usage restrictions in case of a water shortage. They haven\’t gotten the job done, but recent rains have eased fears of a summertime drought.
A major investor in the Hollymead Town Center plans to sell more than half its interest and beat town with a tidy profit.
After years of tumult, the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority seems to be stable and moving toward some long-stalled projects.
Pillaging the earth and exploiting poor workers is all well and good, but sometimes the CEO of a major corporation needs a new challenge.
You know how we elect qualified people to make decisions for us? That whole representative democracy thing? Well, it’s not working out so well here in Virginia.
The dog days of summer are just around the corner. And what better way is there to kill some time and beat the heat than participating in medical experiments?
As the debate continues over how much retail is too much for Albemarle County, tree-huggers aren’t the only people concerned about a shopping surplus.