We try to avoid gazing at our navels here at the C-VILLE, but we thought we’d pass along what our head honchos told us, which is that they’ve reached a deal to move the office a couple of blocks down the Mall to 300-308 E. Main St. C-VILLE Publisher Frank Dubec hopes to complete the […]
Let the hiring season begin. UVA announced last week that Paul Mahoney will take over as law school dean when John Jeffries, who has held the post since 2001, steps down this summer. A University law professor since 1990, Mahoney’s specialties are on the corporate and financial sides of the law. He’s a graduate of […]
With Fidel Castro having at last passed off power permanently, C-VILLE decided to pillage the audio archive at the Miller Center to take a trip back in the presidential time machine. Bypassing the more well-known Kennedy era, we opted to pull a few telephone tapes from Lyndon Johnson’s administration, and found this exchange with Senator […]
Local budget season has come early this season, in case you haven’t noticed. Thanks to a change in the law, the city and county officials have had to scratch together a proposal much earlier than they did last year. So here at C-VILLE, we’ve cast a dutiful eye to the budget situation. The city budget […]
The drought this year must have made a definite impression on local architect Bill Atwood. He appeared for the fourth time before the city Board of Architectural Review on February 19 with a starkly different design for a proposed six-story, mixed-use building that would take the place of the Under the Roof building on W. […]
As Downtown pedestrians noticed last week, the building at 200 E. Main St., known as the former Boxer Learning building, swelled in anticipation of the nine-story tower it’s preparing to birth, with yellow tape and steel poles expanding its presence on the Mall. To ensure a smooth pregnancy, Lee Danielson, the project’s public face, came […]
All you booze hounds who justified the daily run to the ABC store by thinking of the roughly $150,000 you’re annually contributing to local government in Charlottesville and Albemarle—you’re going to have to find a new enabler. Governor Tim Kaine’s budget has most of that cash staying with the state to pay for things like […]
It’s here at last: The report from the Commission on the Future is now. After a year’s worth of work, it has a host of recommendations. “We learned in the school of hard knocks during the early 1990s that the University cannot be all things to all people,” reads the report, composed by a group […]
The House of the General Assembly—the oldest legislative body in the western hemisphere—basically operates like a middle school classroom, with the speaker of the House playing the role of jaded, brusque teacher and the other 99 members acting like petulant, unruly students. More feature articles: Bell’s bills 200813 pieces of legislation that Rob Bell carried […]
In case you got the impression Rob Bell is all business all the time, several colleagues wanted to make sure we know another side of Bell, the quick-witted guy who quotes Caddyshack and “Bad to the Bone” rocker George Thorogood. Del. Bill Janis, who sits beside Bell during House sessions, notes that Bell likes Thai […]