Downtown businesses were able to leverage fear from the "white t-shirt gang attacks" and push the city to move forward with plans for Downtown Mall cameras—despite the fact that none of the incidents happened there. The city has put out a request for proposals and has budgeted $300,000 for the surveillance, which city Police Chief […]
Of those presenting to the Virginia Tech Incident Review Panel at Darden School of Business on July 18, none topped Russ Federman, director of UVA's Center for Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), whose candor garnered the full attention of the panelists and audience.
It’s hard to imagine too many of us working stiffs mucking through the entire draft report of recommendations from the [da da dum!] Commission on the Future. So to save us all some hassle, C-VILLE sifted through the river of verbiage to extract what golden proposals are buried in its depths. As a bit of […]
A 101′-tall building was to come to the rescue of plans for a CVS on the corner of W. Main and McIntire, but a pharmacy at the current location of RSC Equipment Rental is no longer likely. "We’re working under the premise that it’s out," says site developer Bob Englander. "We think it makes for […]
Ryan Adams’ delay at LaGuardia Airport assured that the county Planning Commission was the best show in town on Tuesday, July 10, complete with shouting and gavel pounding, accusations and innuendos. Developer Wendell Wood got a narrow vote of approval from the county Planning Commission in a cantankerous discussion of 15 acres he wants rezoned […]
Steve Blaine, the attorney representing Biscuit Run developers, was quick to inform the Board of Supervisors about all the meetings that had taken place prior to that evening on July 11: two public hearings at the Planning Commission, 13 information sessions and more than 200 informal meetings, by Blaine’s count. But last Wednesday’s meeting was […]
Two days after former dean of Arts & Sciences Ed Ayers officially took over as president of the University of Richmond on July 1, UVA named Karen Ryan interim dean. Ryan, a Slavic languages and literatures professor, was associate dean for the arts, humanities and social sciences. She temporarily takes the helm as UVA is, […]
UVA is often called the engine that drives Charlottesville, or the 800-pound gorilla in the room, depending on who’s talking and whether they think UVA’s doing its fair share. Not content with such generalizations, University President John Casteen commissioned a Weldon Cooper Center study to quantify the economic impact on both the local area and […]
In the rhetoric of business leaders and politicians, the glossy face of the affordable housing issue is a young couple, probably a firefighter and a school teacher, scoping the market for their first home, preferably new and under $190,000. County policy pushes developers to include some such units in their projects, and nonprofits work to […]
When temperatures get in the 90s and the humidity makes you feel like you’re underwater anyway, why not take a dive into the pool? And how much more convenient it is to have a pool of your own. The problem with that, of course, is that you have to be able to afford it—and have […]