Water update: Mayor calls contested dam "viable"
In a December 8 letter, Albemarle County supervisors refused an offer from the Department of Environmental Quality to mediate city-county disputes
What really got our goat in 2010
This year, a few stories did a number on us. In return, we decided to put a number on those same stories. C-VILLE scrutinized Charlottesville’s landmark events, and ranked each for its impact during the last year and implications for the next. From happenings that struck our community dumb with dismay to those that rejuvenated […]
If Biscuit Run never was…
Why did Charlottesville pass up a less expensive, less restrictive Faulconer Tract for Biscuit Run?
Tom Skalak a candidate for CalPoly presidency
Thomas Skalak, UVA’s Vice President for Research since 2008, helped bring more than $30 million in grants to the school prior to his promotion. Now, the school may need to boost Skalak’s $275,000 annual salary to keep its lead innovator in town.
Right makes might
With an electorate that willingly combined the words “Ken Cuccinelli” and “Attorney General,” is there any conservative candidate they wouldn’t vote for?
Every trick in the book
Oars flanked the podium in the sterile, textbook-filled upper mezzanine of the UVA bookstore—a silly sight. In front of a crowd split between faculty and young MFAs, Jeb Levingood, editor of UVA graduate literary journal Meridian, took to the podium with a fictional and fanciful introduction about how the local novelist John Casey […]
Protective orders discussed as Huguely nears trial
According to a report presented to the commission, there are roughly 15,000 final protective orders at any given time in Virginia.
Locals gave almost $1 million to Perriello, Hurt
On November 2, Charlottesville voters left little doubt about who they wanted to represent them in Congress, voting four-to-one for Democratic incumbent Tom Perriello over Republican rival (and eventual district winner) Robert Hurt. The final campaign finance figures, released last week, show that Charlottesville donors voted the same way with their wallets. Donors from Charlottesville […]