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Microfinance group Community Investment Collaborative launches first class of entrepreneurs
Toan Nguyen has seen a lot of good business plans fail.
Playing to win in the health care debate
With the Supreme Court’s epic (and nearly unprecedented) six-hour, three-day marathon of Obamacare-related oral arguments finally behind us, it’s time to do the one thing we hate more than anything: wait.
Does practicing Christianity in UVA's locker rooms violate the Constitution?
“Winning and doing well was always important to me,” former UVA tailback Cedric Peerman said. “It still is but glorifying God has been impressed on me. Now I want to represent Jesus Christ on the football field. My identity is not found in my performance. My identity is found in Christ.” (Photo by Jason O. […]
City of Promise seeks to break the cycle of poverty
City of Promise director Sarad Davenport has come home to 10th and Page, the first neighborhood he can remember, to guide a project he believes will ultimately hand local kids a road map out of poverty. (Photo by John Robinson) This city has a way of drawing home its native sons. It’s something of an […]
Graelyn Brashear and Laura Ingles join C-VILLE staff
C-VILLE Weekly has a new news team. Graelyn Brashear (right) recently joined the staff as news editor, alongside staff writer Laura Ingles. (Photo by John Robinson) I left Albemarle County nearly 11 years ago in a station wagon crammed with bags, a dog, and my teenage self. My family moved me to New Jersey from […]
Media companies file for access to Huguely evidence
George Huguely was back in court March 16, and the headline that came out of the motion hearing that brought him there ran in publications around the country: Attorneys for convicted murderer to seek retrial.
Green Scene: This week's greenie news
Local groups are involved in opposition to a very large coal-burning power plant proposed for Surry County. It’s estimated that it would contribute to as many as 200,000 lost work days, due to downwind residents’ health problems, over its 60-year life span. (File photo) Life churns along, and with it a mixed bag of environmental […]
Top Virginia House Dem David Toscano recaps the legislative session
The 2012 state legislative session was David Toscano’s first as top Democrat in the House of Delegates, and though Republicans came out of the high-profile session claiming victory for Governor Bob McDonnell’s agenda, Toscano said Democrats saw some triumphs of their own as he helped push for a more unified party.
New OpenGrounds studio, a location for interdisciplinary collaboration, is now open for business
OpenGrounds is more than a building. The students and faculty who designed this network model hope to connect differing University departments in new ways. (UVA Center for Collaboration and Innovation) “How can we move beyond protecting what we ‘know’ to embrace what we don’t even know we don’t know?” Among some two dozen other […]