On election night 2014, we here at Odd Dominion headquarters sensed early on that Democrats were in for a very bad night. On the national stage, the major TV networks called the supposedly contested Kentucky senate race (which pitted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell against Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes) the second that polls […]
On election night 2014, we here at Odd Dominion headquarters sensed early on that Democrats were in for a very bad night. On the national stage, the major TV networks called the supposedly contested Kentucky senate race (which pitted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell against Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes) the second that polls […]
Accused Hannah Graham abductor Jesse Matthew has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault and attempted murder charges in a 2005 Fairfax attack, and will face an 8-day trial there March 9, according to news reports from the Daily Progress and Richmond’s NBC12. Matthew, 32, made the plea in Fairfax County Circuit Court Friday morning. He […]
African American Heritage Center hosts Greens Cook-off, also screening Dark Girls Documentary The African American Heritage Center, located in the Jefferson School City Center hosted their first Greens cook-off on Saturday November 8th, 2014. The event was sponsored through the generous support of businesses such as Eppie’s, Brown’s Catering, and The Blue Moon Fund. Volunteers […]
On Monday, Charlottesville’s Center for Nonprofit Excellence packed a Boar’s Head ballroom with a who’s who of local civic and arts leaders for its seventh annual Philanthropy Day celebration—a moment not to rest on laurels, said CNE board and staff members, but to reflect on the value nonprofits bring to the community. And in the […]
This article includes reporting from a previously published story, which you can read here. Scandal-plagued Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta will leave her job December 31, nearly three weeks after her first scheduled court appearance in a felony embezzlement case. But the controversy over her ouster rages on. In rare bipartisan agreement, some prominent city Democrats […]
A mobile app billing itself as “the modern-day digital Van Wilder” has landed at UVA, and the creators want students here to help it take off. KickOn is designed to hook partygoers up with party hosts, said company rep Kate Talbot. Unsurprisingly, college students are the target demographic, and Talbot said the company ID’d several schools […]
The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board revoked former Albemarle supervisor Christopher Dumler’s license to practice law November 4, the latest fallout from the forcible sodomy charge lodged against him in 2012*, Katy Evans reported in The Daily Progress. Once a rising star in Albemarle’s Democratic party and the youngest to be elected supervisor, then-27-year-old Dumler […]
The city built it, and still they come. A 7-foot metal fence now stretches along more than 1,000 feet of railroad track from the 14th Street train trestle on the Corner north beyond the end of Elliewood Avenue, a barrier built with $385,000 in Federal Highway Administration funds. That is, it would stretch that length, […]
In August, Rich Collins had a near miss. The Charlottesville resident said he was driving west on Rio Road East with his daughter in the passenger seat when he went to make a left onto Hillsdale Drive. The signaled intersection, which lies about half a mile east of Route 29, was familiar to him, and […]
With his construction start date just weeks away, Violet Crown Cinemas CEO Bill Banowsky is sharing more details of his plans for a total overhaul of downtown Charlottesville’s only movie theater, from the physical layout to his strategy for competing in a closely controlled movie market. Banowsky is partnering with downtown Regal building owner Dorothy […]