Hurt gets GOP nomination, new challenge
Virginia Senator Robert Hurt’s decisive victory in last week’s GOP Congressional primary set the Fifth District’s own political Rube Goldberg machine in motion.
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Hurt gets GOP nomination, new challenge
Clark launches independent bid for Perriello's seat
Virginia Senator Robert Hurt’s decisive victory in last week’s GOP Congressional primary set the Fifth District’s own political Rube Goldberg machine in motion.
Kluge auction fetches $20.2 million
The 52 percent discount was not in effect last week when Patricia Kluge’s furnishings went on sale. Though she dropped the price of Albemarle House, the 45-room English country-style home from which 933 lots of stuff were culled, to $48 million from her original $100 million, by midday Wednesday it seemed similar bargains would be […]
Walks With Men; Ann Beattie; Scribner, 102 pages
In Walks With Men, Ann Beattie’s new novella, the writer returns to a time when her star was the well-polished centerpiece of the literary firmament—namely, the 1980s, when you couldn’t open the New Yorker without seeing one of her stories, and “Chilly Scenes of Winter became a kind of bible among 20somethings.” So said last […]
Board of Visitors passes $2.4 billion budget
During UVA President John Casteen’s final Board of Visitors (BOV) meeting before he retires in August
Kluge auction fetches $20.2 million
The 52 percent discount was not in effect this week when Patricia Kluge’s furnishings went on sale.
Local leaders concerned over "Boyd Plan"
Since January, Albemarle County Supervisor Ken Boyd has organized meetings with area business leaders to craft an economic “action plan.” The plan seeks to foster a more business-friendly culture in Albemarle that would attract more companies, expand the county’s commercial tax base and increase tax revenues without facing the potentially volatile issue of raising tax […]
Palimpsest patrol
Dear Ace: Who cleans the Free Speech Wall, and how often? I’m trying to determine when it would be likeliest that I would find a wide, empty swath of slate on which to hide an encoded message in plain sight.—Chalkboard-Collaborator-in-Charlottesville The 54′ strip of Buckingham slate that stands at the threshold of the Charlottesville Pavilion […]
Morven digs up unknown farmers
Want to get deep into the question of who lived around here in TJ’s time? Start digging.
Too much of a good thing in VA congressional races?
Wake up, sleepy heads! Tuesday is primary day, 2010, and you know what that means!
Virginia's environmentalists push for wind energy
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been dubbed the worst environmental catastrophe in U.S. history, and its economic effects are felt not only in Louisiana, but also closer to home. It was just a couple of months ago that President Obama announced the approval of offshore drilling on Virginia’s coast. Now, after […]