Anger and disbelief the refrain at Virginia Tech

“I’m safe. I’m not okay, but I’m safe.” I couldn’t respond in any other way to the hundreds of phone calls, text messages, e-mails and Facebook posts asking me how I was doing. It was April 16, 2007, a day that Virginia Tech and the rest of the world will never forget, the day Seung-Hui […]

New exhibit will shed light on slavery at Monticello

Is Thomas Jefferson’s life as a slave owner a personal contradiction that tarnishes his political and moral legacy, or is it more correct to view his plantation life as a reflection of the American social materiel from which he formulated his much-vaunted ideals?

How the bypass helped Boyd win

The local vote that set the dormant Western Bypass in motion dealt what many residents and some supervisors consider to be the greatest blow to open government practices in Albemarle County in years