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Now that the students are heading out for the summer, traffic should be more manageable around the University. But what about other areas of Charlottesville, Albemarle, and beyond?

 The Greene County GOP was in the media spotlight last week, though not, perhaps, for a welcome reason. Ponch McPhee, editor of the party’s monthly newsletter, was dismissed after a particularly fiery piece he wrote earlier this spring drew national attention. In the newsletter’s March issue, McPhee wrote that the upcoming presidential election was crucial […]

 Both Albemarle County and the county school district are going full speed ahead on funding a new state mandate that gives to public employees with one hand and takes with another—but not without some griping. New pension reform legislation passed just before the end of the 2012 legislative session requires public employees covered by the […]

 I spotted my accountant in front of her office this spring, planting perennials to spruce up the parking lot. I liked seeing her away from her desk, and it struck me as further proof of the way Central Virginia is just so packed with people who know and care about growing plants. Gardening is truly part […]

President Obama made an appearance at Virginia Commonwelath University in Richmond May 5, one of two stops on his first official campaign weekend. Virginia is poised to get plenty of attention from the candidates in the lead-up to the November presidential election. (Zhang Jun/Xinhua/Zumapress.com) Unless you’ve spent the last month spelunking in Luray Caverns, we’re […]

Critical mass. With 35 biotechnology companies currently doing business in the city, members of Charlottesville’s biotech industry say they’ve got it. Two years after the University of Virginia retooled its intellectual property regulations to encourage more researchers to move their ideas to market, biotech is bigger than ever here, and looming large in the financial […]

Mercedes Helnwein’s “The Beautiful Person” provokes and questions observers at Second Street Gallery. (Courtesy the artist) What are you looking at? A stern portrait’s half-lidded stare seems to ask this the moment anyone walks through the door at Second Street Gallery. And in artist Mercedes Helnwein’s show “The Beautiful Person,” it’s a question well worth […]

Deirdre Gilmore has watched her grandson become a statistic. 

The plan for the 29 Western Bypass is back on the radar of both the Virginia Department of Transportation and vocal opponents of the 6-mile route as VDOT prepares to select a winning construction bid.