Campaign trail: Spy center backs off Trump sign ban
Mike Sienda already felt aggrieved when his boss at the National Ground Intelligence Center’s Rivanna Station told him in early September to not show up on grounds with his giant […]
Day 1: Jurors selected in Eramo v. Rolling Stone defamation trial
Nearly two years after Rolling Stone put UVA in the national spotlight with an article called “A Rape on Campus,” 100 potential jurors crammed into U.S. District Court October 17 […]
Activist calls for boycott of City Council
JoAnn Robertson has had enough. She was appalled at conditions facing elderly and disabled residents at Crescent Halls who spent the summer without air conditioning. Now she’s calling for a […]
Legal opinion: Don’t clutter the Constitution of Virginia
Virginia voters will notice two constitutional amendments on the ballot in November, and given past history, they’ll probably pass them, despite legal experts concerns that such amendments clunk up the […]
Fake cancer survivor gets 14 months
Carmelo “Carmine” Carrozza, who claimed he had cancer and collected paychecks from The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs while taking a job at the Darden School Foundation, was sentenced […]
R.K. Ramazani: U.S. ‘dean of Iranian foreign policy studies’ dies at 88
UVA professor emeritus Rouhollah K. Ramazani, better known as Ruhi, died October 5 from complications of a fall at age 88. The Edward R. Stettinus professor of government and foreign […]
Night lights: Munitions company shines in Rockfish Valley
David Connolly used to gaze out the windows of his Afton Mountain home and see twinkling lights and the occasional headlight in the valley below. That was before Zenith Quest […]
Toss up? Down ticket in the 5th District
In a normal election year, the incumbent Republican 5th District congressman would run for re-election and win. That’s how it works. Incumbents are always favored, and in a gerrymandered district, […]
Interact this way: Albemarle police pocket guide raises concerns
A just-printed Albemarle County Police Department pamphlet was intended to build trust and cooperation between citizens and law enforcement during interactions that are now under a national spotlight. Its content, […]
Commodity U: Starving the Beast looks at the dismantling of public education
Ever wonder why Virginia’s vaunted flagship university gets such paltry state funding? To the filmmakers of Starving the Beast, that’s an ideological decision. The documentary, produced by Violet Crown owner […]