“Someone asked me yesterday why I thought it was a good idea to jump off this cliff,” former Democratic Congressman Tom Perriello said at his campaign launch event on December 10. “And I said that I knew if I jumped, there were hundreds of people ready to jump behind me.” The shoulder-to-shoulder crowd packed into […]
A single car no longer sufficed. Kevin Driscoll, his wife, and their young daughter needed another way to get around. But instead of a second car, they chose a different set of wheels. “I debated a long time on getting an e-bike because it was kind of a big purchase,” says Driscoll, an associate professor at […]
The snow fell. The power failed. The plant flooded. The water stopped. For more than 115 hours across six calendar days last January, the City of Richmond lost clean drinking water. For much of that time, its taps ran dry. According to reporting from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, three inches of fallen snow and a resulting […]
UVA doctoral candidate T.C.A. Achintya needed a better way to get around. A new program from the City of Charlottesville made it happen. “I had contemplated buying a regular bike, since I don’t own a car,” Achintya says. “But with how hilly C’ville can get, I never quite got around to it, since I could […]