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Virginia continues to put the swing into "swing state"

Progress on the much-debated water supply plan continues at a drip’s pace, but in the past couple of weeks, Mayor Dave Norris has gotten into hot water for a meeting he had with the director of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), David Paylor, in late October.  In late October, Norris met with the […]

We last left the Meadowcreek Parkway saga with construction underway, the county detour open, and the Federal Highway Administration ruling that the Meadowcreek Parkway would not have a considerable impact on the environment. What’s next for the 43-year-old project? The county portion of the Meadowcreek Parkway opened last month and no accidents or tickets have […]

Halsey Minor’s financial woes are once again back in the headlines. 

Sales have tripled at the City Market in the past decade and more growth is expected.

When I first encountered the musical energy that would become 6 Day Bender’s 2008 self-titled debut, the boys were perched atop a booth at the Virginian on a lazy fall night, strumming their acoustic guitars and crooning for anyone within earshot. Barely a few steps off of Mr. Jefferson’s turf, from where frontmen Clayton Avent […]

At first glance, the landmark 25th edition of Algonquin’s venerable New Stories From the South appears to be alphabetically arranged. It starts off with newcomer Adam Atlas and then moves on to old-timer Rick Bass, who led off 2007’s A-to-Z version—but then it jumps down the alphabet to Brad Watson, who has not only the […]

In May, the Charlottesville Area Fitness Club Operators Association filed lawsuits against the Board of Supervisors and City Council claiming private clubs were denied a fair shot at construction bids for the McIntire Park YMCA.

It could easily have been a day of mourning. A cold November rain dampened a crowd of volunteers last Thursday as they gathered a final time to hear from the man they’d worked but failed to re-elect two days before, Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello.“Tom, you have changed who I am as a human,” said […]

The Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail was awarded more than $55,000 in federal cash for housing "undocumented criminal aliens" in the last fiscal year.