Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight

And we just keep going in our highly selective tour through the past 20 years of local news and arts in C-VILLE. This week, it’s a numbers game. In 2004, we listed the top 10 highest-paid Charlottesville and Albemarle employees [Here’s a PDF of the 2004 story], with Robert Tucker topping the county’s list at […]

Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight

And we just keep going in our highly selective tour through the past 20 years of local news and arts in C-VILLE. This week, a “green” story from a perhaps unexpected source: Dominion Power, whose Lake Anna nuclear facility, merely 30 miles from town, creeps closer and closer to expansion. Also, this week, remembrances of […]

Tee to tomb

Dear Ace: Between the 5th and 6th holes of the Meadow Creek Golf Course is an untended cemetery. Do you have any information pertaining to this?—Resta N. Pease Resta: Usually when someone mentions a cemetery on a golf course, Ace assumes she’s talking about the sand trap that buries all of Ace’s Titleist balls. But […]

Dave Matthews Band; John Paul Jones Arena; Friday, April 17

Every city needs a house large enough to hold its biggest hero. For Dave Matthews Band’s first of two gigs this weekend (and first in Charlottesville since September 2006), the John Paul Jones Arena nearly proved too small. Big Whiskey a-go go! Dave Matthews Band doused a packed John Paul Jones Arena with a few […]

McAuliffe, Rooker and Norris lead in 1Q finance reports

The first quarter financial disclosure reports are out revealing who raised what in the local and statewide elections. In the run for Governor, according to records compiled by Virginia Public Access Project and the Virginia State Board of Elections, Democratic candidate and fundraising powerhouse Terry McAuliffe is in the lead with $4,215,777, followed by lone […]

Hundreds protest Federal spending on Tax Day

First there was George W. Bush’s Wall Street bailout back in November. Then came Barack Obama and his $787 billion stimulus package, followed by a massive pork-filled omnibus spending package, and now a projected $3.55 trillion for the 2010 budget. The amount being spent is dizzying, and to a core segment of mostly conservative Americans […]

Stimulus package wards off steep tuition increase

The federal stimulus package has lent some breathing room to UVA’s constricting financial situation. On Monday, April 13, the Board of Visitors approved a lower-than-expected tuition increase for both in-state and out-of-state students. Virginians, who comprise 69 percent of the student population, will pay $375, or 5 percent, more per year to a total of […]