Music computer hasn’t always been this easy. Just ask Judith Shatin. Forty years ago, you might have found her, a Ph.D. student in composition at Princeton University, slithering under the cover of night into the Engineering department with a stack of primitive punch cards, feeding them through a digital convertor, and then making her way […]
Albemarle County’s infant mortality rate increased to 6.5 from 5.6. And while Charlottesville’s infant mortality rate has decreased, the city’s rate remains 43 percent higher than the state average for the period spanning 2005 to 2009.
Due to a reporting error, a February 1 news story (“Walmart surrenders at Wilderness”) incorrectly stated the first name of Pulitzer Prize-winner Dr. James McPherson as “Curtis.” Due to a reporting error, a story in the 2011 Health Annual, published January 25, misstated the cost of the yoga class Elisa Ferrante teaches at Southwood. It […]
Is it just us, or is our beloved Commonwealth becoming more and more cantankerous and inhospitable with every passing day?
UVA's Google Books agreement "called for 500,000 books in our collection over 5 years," says Martha Sites. "We've exceeded our target."
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In Charlottesville, approximately 32 percent of properties declined in value, while 39 percent held steady.
A total $2.8 million in budget cuts to CHIP (Children’s Health Improvement Program) of Virginia and Healthy Families Virginia could jeopardize services for more than 2,000 families across the state, unless the General Assembly passes a budget amendment to reinstate funds to both agencies.
Local residents and a number of children gathered at the corner of Eighth and Page streets on Thursday, February 3, to mourn the death of 30-year-old David Lee “Gundo” Cowan, the victim of this city’s first homicide of 2011. Flowers and dozens of tea lights were placed at a section of sidewalk, stained with a […]
Barring a constitutional amendment from the General Assembly, more than 2,000 area students may soon learn the significance of the old adage: “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” According to the U.S. Department of Agri-culture, 43 million citizens use food stamps. A new opinion, requested by Rep. John O’Bannon and penned by Attorney […]