Woody Guthrie and the working man’s song
“Despite its relative affluence, Charlottesville has an income gap problem,” writes our news editor, Graelyn Brashear, in this week’s story about the Green Dot Cooperative . Hmmm. Despite its relative […]
There’s no ‘I’ in story
A few weeks back I marveled in this column at the clarity of John McPhee’s writing in Coming into the Country, which was written in 1971, the year my older […]
Editor’s Note: What we need is backbone
Last week, I joked in the introduction to our feature that I wasn’t 100 percent sure what power was.
Editor's Note: What we can learn from Dragas-gate and the revolution on Grounds
By the time this paper comes out, the information in it may be out of date. That’s always true as I write this column, but this week it carries extra weight, since the UVA Board of Visitors could vote Tuesday afternoon to reinstate President Teresa Sullivan.
Editor's Note: You say you want a revolution
There’s no sign of revolution in Charlottesville as I write this. It’s a rainy, off-season Monday morning. No tanks in the streets.
Editor's Note: School's out for the summer
The equinox pretty nearly marks the beginning of the spring season in Charlottesville, but summer outpaces its solstice.
Mailbag: Letters to the editor
Particularly good(e) simile comparing Virgil Goode to a toenail fungus…
Editor's Note: The daily news
Everyone was talking news last week. First, we learned that Warren Buffett was coming to a store near us, and then the Oracle of Omaha delivered a prophecy (in a letter to his editors and publishers) to make a newsman glow.
Editor's Note: You have to love it to protect it
My favorite section of the Rivanna Trail is a cul de sac. Bordered by razor wire on one side and a road on the other, it forms a looped pocket trail near the confluence of Meadow Creek and the Rivanna River.