McIntire Park planning meeting added, infrastructure cost debated

After three public meetings, four concept diagrams, and an initial public vote, critical questions on the appropriate land uses for the east side of McIntire Park are forcing city staff to hold an additional public meeting at the end of February to try to reach public agreement before City Council makes a final decision.

As Media General posts losses, Daily Progress gets creative

Last month, the media conglomerate Media General—owner of numerous television stations and newspapers, including the Daily Progress and Richmond Times-Dispatch—reported a loss of $3.3 million on $168 million of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011, which is about 12 percent lower than the fourth quarter of 2010. That decline resulted in major cuts […]

C-VILLE News Briefs

City and county tax values decline The real estate market in Charlottesville and Albemarle is still contracting. In the city, the total value of taxable property decreased by 1.22 percent, and existing residential property declined in value by 3.08 percent. Commercial property, however, increased by 0.84 percent. Albemarle County’s taxable values declined by 3 percent, with […]

HUGUELY TRIAL: Malice aforethought

UVA Law Professor Anne Coughlin spoke to students about the legal intricacies of Virginia’s homicide law in an effort to prepare them for the upcoming trial of former UVA student George Huguely. 

The Sex Issue 2012

JUMP TO: Bartender stories Erotic art Love Potion #9 Sexercise Mood foods Sexual offenses Fine lines? Five senses of self Casual Encounters Single and looking? Pick-up tips Gay Charlottesville Good vibrations Sweet meets Love: 101 Dating timeline  Here’s what we know to be true, according to the results of our recent reader sex survey: When it […]

Meet the new bosses, worse than the old bosses

A common refrain when an extremist legislature is elected is that the voters didn’t realize what they were voting for. Whenever a lawmaking body goes off the deep end and starts proposing all sorts of laws that were never mentioned during campaign season, charges of bait-and-switch are never far behind. Thus, as Virginia’s Republican-controlled General […]

Scholars recreate landscape of slavery at Monticello

For most Americans, Monticello is the home of Thomas Jefferson, an icon of American architectural expression, a treasured National Historic Landmark and the only American residence on UNESCO’s prestigious World Heritage List. But it’s also the best documented and best preserved early American plantation, and for that reason, a window into the obscure institution of slavery.

Keswick: $24M impairment before sale

One month before Richmond’s Riverstone Group began negotiations to purchase the Keswick Corporation, previous owners Orient-Express Hotels told investors that the properties carried roughly $24 million in impairment charges