Trump’s migrants: Winery seeks more foreign laborers
Trump Winery has applied for temporary visas for another 23 laborers, which it says it cannot find domestically. Earlier this year, it imported six workers to prune grapevines. Critics suggest […]
Out loud: Protesters and counterprotesters keep volume up at Garrett town hall
This is what democracy looked like March 31 outside UVA’s Garrett Hall, the scene of Congressman Tom Garrett’s first town hall: rowdy. Demonstrators armed with bullhorns both for and against […]
Feelin’ the squeeze: Hundreds appeal new commercial tax assessments
No one likes paying taxes. And Charlottesville property owners who saw their commercial assessments go up 65 percent, 90 percent or 100 percent really don’t like it—and they’re letting the […]
Spaced out: Low-wage earners will feel parking pain
The already difficult downtown parking landscape is about to become more challenging in the next couple of years. Major construction projects like West2nd, the Dewberry Hotel and Belmont Bridge […]
Rob Vaughan puts the ‘human’ in humanities
In a parallel universe, Rob Vaughan would probably have been an assistant English professor somewhere—“not here, because no one gets to stay,” he says. Instead, when then-UVA President Edgar Shannon […]
‘Life-changing’: Medical marijuana inches toward desperate families
Within the next few years, three Charlottesville families will be able to legally obtain the cannabis oil extract that eases the seizures of their children with debilitating intractable epilepsy, thanks […]
The unmasker: Nikuyah Walker makes independent bid for City Council
In her run to sit on the other side of the City Council dais she’s often stood before, Nikuyah Walker won’t be touting Charlottesville as a world-class city. Instead, her […]
Legal front: Lawsuit filed to halt removal of General Lee statue
Nearly a dozen citizens filed a not-unexpected lawsuit and an injunction today in Charlottesville Circuit Court to stop the removal of the statue of General Robert E. Lee and any […]
Where’s Tom? The case of the missing congressman
Craig DuBose made his appointment February 1 to meet with Congressman Tom Garrett in the congressman’s Charlottesville office March 6. Heather Rowland made hers February 10. Both constituents called to […]
Lynn challenges Landes—again
White Hall resident Angela Lynn is tossing her hat into the 25th District ring, most of which lies in Augusta County, so it’s no surprise that gerrymandering was the first […]