Matt Reeves is a jovial Ph.D. who travels the grounds of Montpelier on a mountain bike, wearing a knapsack. When I met him at the presidential estate he was standing near a team of seven or eight workers. They milled about like a road crew, not 200 yards from where President Madison once penned the […]
Matt Reeves is a jovial Ph.D. who travels the grounds of Montpelier on a mountain bike, wearing a knapsack. When I met him at the presidential estate he was standing near a team of seven or eight workers. They milled about like a road crew, not 200 yards from where President Madison once penned the […]
In February of 2009, Frank Hardy of Frank Hardy, Realtors, Inc. filed suit against Vineyard Estates, LLC, a.k.a. Patricia Kluge and William Moses, for breach of contract on two listing agreements. On Friday, an Albemarle County Circuit Court judge will decide whether the case will head to trial on April 2. According to the suit, the listing […]
One week after roughly 500 people gathered to mourn the death of 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington at a memorial service in Roanoke, Gil Harrington says that her family is more focused on the artifacts of her daughter’s life rather than factors that many say contributed to Morgan’s disappearance. READ MORE News Analysis: John […]
Although you’d be hard-pressed to prove it, the Old Dominion’s Democrats still maintain control over one branch of Virginia’s three-headed bureaucratic Hydra.
Dear Ace: On a scale of “one” to “a sullen wintry gloom,” how disappointed are you about the apparent lack of Mardi Gras awareness in this town?—Carnival-Craving-in-Charlottesville Oh merde, that was this Tuesday? Hey, look: Roughly since February 2nd, when Punxsutawney Phil predicted another six weeks without joy or hope, Ace had been encased […]
How to look at UVA President John Casteen’s 20th State of the University Address—his last before the task falls to incoming president Teresa Sullivan in August?
With the announcement of City Manager Gary O’Connell’s impending departure to head the Albemarle County Service Authority, C-VILLE wanted to know: Does Charlottesville need a popularly elected City Mayor? Once current City Manager Gary O’Connell (pictured) heads to the Albemarle County Service Authority, should a popularly elected mayor appoint a new City Manager? “I am […]
Freedom’s just another word for “sharing information.” Take Delegate Rob Bell’s House Bill 903, a bill that would allow members of college threat assessment teams to discuss medical and criminal records of potential threats, as well as exempt records produced by those teams from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Public access to threat […]
The fight over the Virginia City plant isn’t the only bad environmental PR Dominion’s recently endured. In Northern Virginia, residents fiercely opposed the 500-kilovolt TrAIL line between Meadow Brook and Loudoun, though it did end up receiving state approval in 2008. Actor Robert Duvall, a Fauquier resident, lent his name to the fight, but neither […]
It’s a dim, drizzly afternoon, and I’m riding around Wise County with Kathy and Gary Selvage. I can see what they’re pointing out—evidence of surface mining—but I can’t see it the way they do. READ MORE Dogged by controversy: How Dominion’s shiny green image gets tarnished The Selvages have lived here for decades, and they […]