The search for a new federal prosecutor to fill the seat recently vacated by Charlottesville-based U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia Timothy J. Heaphy has officially begun, but the process of getting a nominee cleared by a U.S. Senate whose powers of cooperation have yet to be tested could take some time. In […]
The search for a new federal prosecutor to fill the seat recently vacated by Charlottesville-based U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia Timothy J. Heaphy has officially begun, but the process of getting a nominee cleared by a U.S. Senate whose powers of cooperation have yet to be tested could take some time. In […]
Charlottesville’s top planning officer is leaving his post after a decade and a half on the job, and the announcement comes at a critical time for the department he’s leaving: The city is in the middle of a wave of new development, and neighborhood leaders are publicly criticizing a planning and development process they say […]
At least two UVA fraternities are refusing to agree to new rules regulating house parties. The additional rules were drawn up by student fraternity leaders during a more than month-long suspension of Greeks at UVA that followed a controversial Rolling Stone story alleging a woman was gang-raped at the school’s Phi Kappa Psi chapter in 2012. […]
A week before the General Assembly session began, Waldo Jaquith, the creator of the legislation-tracking website Richmond Sunlight, reported the absence of a recent tradition: “I haven’t seen the bills that are candidates for Virginia becoming a national embarrassment.” He listed examples from sessions past, such as the mandatory transvaginal ultrasound or the droopy drawers bills. […]
UVA’s fraternities again made national news this week when University President Teresa Sullivan announced the reinstatement of the school’s Phi Kappa Psi chapter, which voluntarily ended its relationship with the University in November after an explosive and now largely discredited Rolling Stone story alleged a woman was gang raped there in 2012. The rest of […]
Every year is an election year in Virginia, and this year, not only is everyone in the General Assembly up for reelection, but key offices in Charlottesville and Albemarle are on the ballot as well. So far in Albemarle, Sheriff Chip Harding (R) has announced he’ll seek a third and final term. Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney […]
Charlottesville Electoral Board chair Joan Schatzman became a casualty of the Sheri Iachetta registrar scandal January 10 when she was booted from reappointment to the board where she’s served for more than 11 years at a special meeting organized by her own party. Schatzman, a Democrat, and her fellow board members, Republican Rick Sincere and […]
The Virginia Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity has been reinstated at UVA after Charlottesville police indicated an investigation “has not revealed any substantive basis” to confirm allegations of a gang rape at the fraternity in 2012, according to a Monday announcement from University President Teresa Sullivan. The fraternity voluntarily rescinded its Fraternal Order […]
Think you were paying attention to Virginia politics in 2014? Take our carefully curated multiple-choice quiz and find out just how much of an electoral obsessive you really are. 1. Although they won a pair of State Senate seats in January special elections, Virginia donkeys were dealt a huge blow when Democratic Senator Phil Puckett […]
The U.S Forest Service is taking public comments through this Friday, January 9 on Dominion Resource’s request to survey the portion of the George Washington National Forest where it hopes to route a natural gas pipeline. The Forest Service says it will consider the comments as it decides whether to allow Dominion surveyors to inspect […]