Rent prices on the rise While Charlottesville is seeking ways to make housing more affordable (see p. 12), rent prices keep climbing as pandemic eviction protection and rental assistance programs […]
By Katie Kenny In the past few decades, rising housing costs have forced many families who have lived in Charlottesville for generations to move out of the city. They’ve left […]
What’s in a name? A month after the president of a local descendants organization called on the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library to change its name to something more inclusive, library leadership […]
At its June 21 meeting, Charlottesville City Council voted to pay $1.6 million for a 39-spot parking lot at 921 E. Jefferson St. to expand downtown parking capacity. While a […]
Timing is everything, the old saying goes, and the co-creator of a new breast-milk sharing app says she and her business partner didn’t plan the launch of The Drop to […]
By Maeve Hayden, Tami Keaveny, Eshaan Sarup, and Courteney Stuart Power is defined as “the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of […]
Budget Amendment yays and nays Virginia has a new two-year state budget after the legislature reconvened last week and passed several of Governor Glenn Youngkin’s proposed amendments. Three Democrats defected […]
By Brielle Entzminger and Courteney Stuart A week after tweeting that a city employee had been at the U.S. Capitol during the January 6 insurrection and faced no consequence, former […]
Last month, the day after Politico published a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion revealing the likelihood that Roe v. Wade will be overturned, the ACLU of Virginia issued a statement […]
Early Saturday morning, several hundred people gathered at Monticello to celebrate Juneteenth, including descendants of the over 400 Black people who were enslaved at the plantation during Thomas Jefferson’s lifetime. […]