The Greene County GOP was in the media spotlight last week, though not, perhaps, for a welcome reason. Ponch McPhee, editor of the party’s monthly newsletter, was dismissed after a […]
Both Albemarle County and the county school district are going full speed ahead on funding a new state mandate that gives to public employees with one hand and takes with […]
I spotted my accountant in front of her office this spring, planting perennials to spruce up the parking lot. I liked seeing her away from her desk, and it struck […]
President Obama made an appearance at Virginia Commonwelath University in Richmond May 5, one of two stops on his first official campaign weekend. Virginia is poised to get plenty of […]
Critical mass. With 35 biotechnology companies currently doing business in the city, members of Charlottesville’s biotech industry say they’ve got it. Two years after the University of Virginia retooled its […]
Mercedes Helnwein’s “The Beautiful Person” provokes and questions observers at Second Street Gallery. (Courtesy the artist) What are you looking at? A stern portrait’s half-lidded stare seems to ask this […]
Deirdre Gilmore has watched her grandson become a statistic.
The plan for the 29 Western Bypass is back on the radar of both the Virginia Department of Transportation and vocal opponents of the 6-mile route as VDOT prepares to select a winning construction bid.
“Everybody’s got a vision and they’re trying to get it off the ground,” said UVA senior Kevin Pujanauski. “How do you bring attention to it, how do you bring a little funding to it, how do you get people excited about it?”
There’s a story Abigail Turner likes to tell about her early days working as a civil rights attorney in 1970s Alabama.