Green Scene: This week's greenie news
The City Market opened for the season on April 7. It runs from 7am to noon every Saturday through November. We watched kids moving inside the bellies of their […]
Are new state retirement requirements an unfunded mandate?
A planned fix for the state’s struggling public worker pension fund has local school and county leaders crying foul and warning of tax hikes as they brace for required raises meant to offset increased employee retirement contributions.
A letter from Tim Kaine
For the last year, I have traveled across the Commonwealth as a senate candidate holding economic roundtables and listening to business owners, workers, veterans, and unemployed Virginians as they share their thoughts about our economic challenges.
Safe Schools initiative assesses bullying problem in local schools; hot button issue sparks national debate
(Illustration by Dongyun Lee) Thirteen-year-old Alexis is a talented singer who reads at an 11th grade level. She says she wants to go to college and then law school, […]
Debate over Ragged Mountain Dam continues as local attorney challenges city
“It’s a nice town,” said Stanton Braverman, “but there’s an enemy out there.”
Fluvanna inmates practice hope in PVCC program
At 2:30 p.m. last Monday, Piedmont Virginia Community College professor Ben Sloan’s American Literature class was deep in an analysis of feminist writer Marge Piercey’s poem “To Be of Use.”
Microfinance group Community Investment Collaborative launches first class of entrepreneurs
Toan Nguyen has seen a lot of good business plans fail.
Playing to win in the health care debate
With the Supreme Court’s epic (and nearly unprecedented) six-hour, three-day marathon of Obamacare-related oral arguments finally behind us, it’s time to do the one thing we hate more than anything: wait.