After a somewhat dormant summer, candidates for City Council are gearing up for the last two months of campaigning before the November 3 elections. As is customary with each local and statewide election, the Piedmont Sierra Club—whose city membership nears 400—handed each of the four City Council candidates a survey on the city’s well-being. […]
After a somewhat dormant summer, candidates for City Council are gearing up for the last two months of campaigning before the November 3 elections. As is customary with each local and statewide election, the Piedmont Sierra Club—whose city membership nears 400—handed each of the four City Council candidates a survey on the city’s well-being. […]
Law and order is a great deal more complex than any 60-minute TV show can convey. It’s not just evidence and a verdict, that’s for sure. And that’s one reason we’ve looked at it from many angles over the years. From the gulf between the ideals of community policing and the funding it requires, to […]
All of Chris Regan’s new students are wearing laceless shoes. Adidas sandals, flip-flops, woven plastic slippers. They also wear paper wristbands, like hospital patients, and black-and-white-striped uniforms. It’s the first day of class: 9am on a Tuesday in February. The students slouch in plastic chairs as Regan writes her name on the board. In […]
For quite some time now, Charlottesville has been the fulcrum of all things local: food, farms, local and sustainable businesses
“Give it a shot,” said Michael Koenig, Darden’s director of MBA programs, to a packed room of new MBA students. They are the first students to receive the new Kindle DX as part of a pilot program Amazon is sponsoring. Back in May, Amazon announced its plans to begin a pilot program in five colleges […]
Accessing the attic of the Massie-Wills residence means literally climbing the stairs, using both hands to scale the approximately seventy-degree incline. Reaching the top provides a fresh perspective on the historic designation of the house at 215 4th Street NE. The space contains a small library arrayed in bookshelves and boxes along the far wall, […]
It’s amazing to us that a little less than 13 years ago, we sent a reporter to investigate a pending facelift in Belmont and he came back writing about the neighborhood’s “P.R. problem.” Sheesh, where did that go? These days, the place has an image too hip for its own good. At least that’s what […]
I feel so average. It’s hard to feel average in a country where no one feels average. Everyone’s a unique snowflake, a maverick, one of a kind. I am no exception. I feel exceptionally exceptional most days. But in reality I’m not special. I’m a pretty average American. I’m overweight. I have high cholesterol […]
Ace, help a fanboy out. Ever since Daniel Jordan abdicated his executive post at Monticello and was replaced by some lady named Bowman, my fellow Jefferson geeks and I have been petitioning the writers to have him retconned back into the picture. Because let’s face it—DJ was Monticello. And forgive us, but in this post-Battlestar […]
During the last presidential election, young voter turnout was unprecedented. Among Democrats, the overall turnout jumped 90 percent in 2008, compared to four years earlier. Young Democrats’ participation jumped 135 percent. Will the same number of young Virginians come out to vote for their future governor? Creigh Deeds, Democratic nominee for governor, appeared in […]