O Dear Citizen of Albemarle, I know you’re excited. The Defense Intelligence Agency is here. We’ve been hearing about them for years: Eight-hundred twenty-eight employees descending on Albemarle County like a swarm of locusts. But these locusts will be a boon, not a plague, sowing a luscious bounty. In the words of the wise men […]
Hey Ace: Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed an oak tree on the 250 bypass (heading east, on the left side of the McIntire Park interchange) that is still green and full of leaves. Driving west, it’s more of a greenish-brown. How does this happen in January, especially considering the winter we’ve been having?—Oak-K-Commuter-in-Charlottesville […]
With the Landmark Hotel still serving as the city’s largest monument to failed accomodations, it bears asking whether Charlottesville needs another hotel, no matter the size. Then again, for Whit Graves, maybe size matters after all. The Alcove condos—which sit in the thick of UVA traffic near the corner of Wertland and 14th streets, […]
As Albemarle County whittles away at a budget, community relations director Lee Catlin wrote last week in a press release that the county asked multiple community agencies “to assess the impacts of a five-percent and 10-percent funding reduction from the County.” The same day, Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Board President Anthony Townsend called a press conference […]
Did Peter van der Linde fight the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority into a settlement stalemate of sorts, or vice versa? This much we know: Months after the RSWA filed an amended complaint against the recycling center director to the tune of a $30 million racketeering charge, the RSWA came to settlement terms last week with […]
Academia has many perks, but few of them are as heavily romanticized as the sabbatical.
Total student population University of Virginia: 21,057 University of Michigan: 56,857 (all campuses) Total operating budget University of Virginia: $2.25 billion (through June 2010) University of Michigan: $5.42 billion (all campuses), $1.5 billion overseen by Sullivan in 2009 Number of employees University of Virginia: 15,128 full-time University of Michigan: 9,266 instructional staff; 30,654 non-instructional (all […]
Things are heating up with regards to the noise issue in Belmont. Although official discussion has been deferred until February, City Council will hold a special session this Thursday, where the Belmont-Carlton Neighborhood Association (BCNA) is expected to hand down recommendations on what a noise ordinance could entail. Belmont restaurant and music hall Bel Rio […]
On Tuesday, January 12, somewhere in Richmond, Tim Kaine breathed a very shallow sigh of relief.