Economic troubles bring solemnity to county budget hearing
Upon entering the County Office Building yesterday evening, it was apparent that this year’s annual hearing over the $303.7 million proposed budget
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Economic troubles bring solemnity to county budget hearing
Supervisors face competing requests for lower taxes and increased services
Upon entering the County Office Building yesterday evening, it was apparent that this year’s annual hearing over the $303.7 million proposed budget
With Norris stepping down, who will lead homeless efforts?
After almost five years as PACEM’s first executive director, Dave Norris is moving on.
Trying to ring Rob's bell
Cynthia Neff The Daily Progress revealed last week that Albemarle resident Cynthia Neff, a retired IBM vice president of human resources, will challenge four-term Republican Delegate Rob Bell for his seat in the General Assembly. She tells C-VILLE that she decided to run in the waning weeks of the state legislature’s session. “I was […]
Career switchers can earn $30K
President Obama’s first major education speech since taking office, in which he laid out a plan to make America’s education system
So long, Leitao
So you might not have heard it here first, but regrettably, the firing of Dave Leitao on a Monday afternoon couldn’t have come at a worse time in our production cycle. Dave Leitao’s sideline demeanor raised questions, though more baffling were his wildly varied rotations and his quick hook if players made mistakes. All around, […]
"Instant" karma
Dear Ace: I am engaged to a beautiful young woman but am having second thoughts about our future together. For example, I prefer to go down to the Mudhouse and purchase a fine, handmade double cappuccino as my morning brew, while she actually prefers to mix up some jarred, mutant instant coffee at our apartment, […]
Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight
We’re now almost a quarter of the way through our highly selective tour through the past 20 years of local news and arts in C-VILLE. And we’ve started to notice a trend: The more things change, the more they stay the same—at least in the past decade or so. The Cavaliers get a new basketball […]
Clarification from March 17 issue
A photo caption in the March 17 cover story [“Battling again”] misidentified the location where Orange County Supervisor Teri Pace was photographed. The photo was taken at a site Pace suggests would be a good alternative for the proposed Wal-Mart.
Danny Schmidt saves the best for last
If the only stupid question is the one not asked, then Danny Schmidt, a Charlottesville expatriate and a founding father of the local folk scene, is thumbtack sharp, a songwriter with the curviest question marks. Former local Danny Schmidt trots out his finest tunes for the esteemed Red House Records label on Instead the Forest […]
Neko's powerful new storm
On Middle Cyclone, Neko Case refines and deepens lessons learned from country, the singer/songwriter tradition and the off-center pop art of her sometimes band, the New Pornographers. With a terseness that nonetheless gives room for metaphor explorations and her discreetly eloquent musicians, Case twists the usually sleepy singer/songwriter style, lacing its romance with verbal timebombs […]