Fund Gambles Pay Off

Looking for a new hedge fund manager? So is every other high-powered investor who's not staring down from a 81st-story ledge, contemplating both July's ruthless credit crush and gravity. Every other investor, that is, except the UVA Investment Management Company (UVIMCO), the University-related foundation that handles UVA's numerous investments.

Virginia mortgage foreclosures increase

Frances Anderson had lived in her house just outside Albemarle County for 27 years when Mike Hall of Aggressive Mortgage Corporation called her. After talking to Hall three or four times over the phone, Anderson, a 78-year-old widow, signed a mortgage that Hall said would save her a bundle of money. But come March, Anderson […]

Developers wrangle over proffers

Last Wednesday the developers of two of the largest projects in the county stood before the Board of Supervisors and tried to get some of their money back. The August 8 Board work session was a chance for the developers of Biscuit Run and Hollymead Town Center to hear what kinds of proffers the county […]

100 doorbells in 90 degrees

"Didn't we do this street already?" Harold Folley, an apprentice organizer with the Virginia Organizing Project, leans back from the wheel for a second look at the seemingly endless rows of beige houses for a better look.

Motorin'

Let's just pretend, you and me, that we got a little car problem. Speaking hypothetically of course, let's say we had a car…maybe a truck even, a 1999 Nissan Frontier with 124,893 miles on it, a purely hypothetical truck that we bought in Texas, rode to Utah, a truck that saw us through to Vermont, packed us up and moved us to Virginia. We love this purely hypothetical truck, you and me, almost more than our mothers.

Abusive-driving fees shot down 

Virginia’s bad-driver fees faced their first challenge August 2 and were promptly shot down. Henrico General District Judge Archer L. Yeatts III said that the fees passed by the General Assembly were unconstitutional. Yeatts was ruling in the matter of Anthony O. Price, who was arrested July 2 for driving without a license. Convicted and […]