More feature articles: Change does him goodWhy Rob Bell is one of the General Assembly’s most effective politicians Rob Bell’s reading listAnd other humanizing stuff Rob Bell carried 22 bills this year, a drop off from the 35 he patroned last year due in large part to the demands of chairing the mental health subcommittee. […]
On an unseasonably warm day on Friday, February 15, Twobears Burgos and Matt Williams tackled the never-ending business of repairing the surface of the Downtown Mall. City Parks & Rec maintenance employees, they work a patch between Second and Third streets where some unknown force—tree roots? constant jostling? poor drainage?—had turned the bricks into a […]
A few weeks ago on the Downtown Mall, there was an unusual performance: Jim Tolbert, the city’s director of Neighborhood Development Services, strummed an electric guitar hooked up to an amp in front of Snooky’s Pawnshop, with a couple of cops milling about.
Marge Sidebottom had no idea the e-mail she sent several weeks ago with a page-long list of “Basic Classroom Emergency Procedures” would raise the hackles that it did. But by January 30, a seemingly defensive Sidebottom spoke to UVA’s Faculty Senate to explain that list, which had drawn some pointed questions from professors. “I’m trying […]
One of the goals of the UVA athletics department is to graduate 100 percent of the student athletes who complete eligibility at the University. And while the department is on track, with a 94 percent rate currently, some professors are concerned that the divide between athlete and student is widening, not shrinking. At the January […]
Bert Brown has watched his wife decline since 2001 with advanced dementia. He likes living on Locust Avenue near the Martha Jefferson Hospital, as his wife has had extended stays there. So with the hospital’s relocation imminent—all activities will be moved from the Locust/High Street location to Pantops by 2012—he would like to see an […]
The skinny: Dominion Development Resources got preliminary approval from the county Planning Commission to subdivide several parcels on 544 acres into 32 development lots of two to 10 acres (the rest of the last is being set into “preservation lots”). Property is in the designated rural area, surrounding the intersection of Dick Woods Road and […]
On Monday, January 21, the world markets looked like they were spiraling out of control.
After another close loss down in Tallahassee to Florida State, the Hoos were hoping to turn around their fortunes at the John Paul Jones Arena Sunday, January 27 against Georgia Tech. Instead, everyone came away with another case of heartache. Once again, UVA botched a halftime lead, this one 10 points tall, to fall in […]
Anybody who came to the County Office Building January 23 for the fireworks went away disappointed—but those who came to keep the Board of Supervisors from messing with their “property rights” went home at least somewhat relieved.