With city and county elections only a week away, anything is fair game, even endorsing your opponent. Last week, Independent candidate for City Council Bob Fenwick did the unthinkable and publicly supported Democratic candidate Dede Smith. He did it in an attempt to break up the “old line party” majority currently held by outgoing Councilor […]
Two weeks after his 77th birthday, Bob O’Neil —UVA’s sixth president, former director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection for Free Expression, and wise old bird—returned to Charlottesville for a gala in his honor.
Just like the people who make up the Occupy Wall Street movement, the members of Occupy Charlottesville are indignant about the state of corporate corruption in the U.S. government and “sick” of a small portion of the population “controlling the majority of the wealth, resources and labor equity.”
As we reach the height of campaign season, perhaps it behooves us all to pause for a moment and review the rules of the game. We’re not claiming that politics is a piece of cake, or that following a a set of simple steps will guarantee your election. But folks, come on! If you’re going […]
When Flynt finally got back to work, he continued to grow his $400 million media empire from a golden wheelchair. The man in the golden wheelchair Larry Flynt regrets nothing, or at least very little After Larry Flynt was shot in the spine by a sniper—a neo-Nazi who had been offended by a spread featuring interracial […]
UVA will hire an estimated 200 new faculty for the largest of its 12 schools, a number that represents more than one-third of its 559 current faculty members
According to 2008 census figures, 97 percent of the Thomas Jefferson Planing District’s 27,528 businesses qualify as micro or small enterprises. Microbusinesses make up more than 75 percent of that number
Originally a dining hall dubbed “the Commons” by students, Garrett Hall was approved by the UVA Board of Visitors on June 11, 1906. The structure’s cost was pegged at $21,000, more than the cost of the President’s home on Carr’s Hill, which was conceived the same year by renowned architecture firm McKim, Mead and White. […]
“The statute of limitations was up as of Monday,” Gil Harrington told C-VILLE in an interview. “We’re not clear on how to proceed from here, but we wanted to preserve the option"
When the action is on the far end of the field, it looks graceful and balletic. When a run comes down the boards right in front of my family, it’s another thing entirely