Stink balm
Been spending too much time in a smoky private club (not, I repeat, not a restaurant)? When you get home, do you smell like an ash tray? Here are some […]
Bowled over?
Adam Soroka began smoking cigarettes at age 17 and stayed the course for a decade or so. One day, he bought a pipe from Cavalier Pipe & Tobacco and “found […]
Puff piece
If the smoking ban hasn’t discouraged you from buying a pack, maybe the grim health consequences will. According to the National Cancer Institute, cigarette smoking is the leading cause of […]
Biscuit Run tax credits soften loss
The addition of Biscuit Run to the state’s land conservation arsenal helped the Kaine Administration surpass its goal of preserving 400,000 acres in four years. And at such a […]
How to sue Halsey Minor
When ground broke on the Landmark Hotel nearly two years ago, developer Halsey Minor said it would be “like nothing people have ever seen.” Boy, oh boy, have truer words […]
Revenues slide for RSWA, which contends $1M in unpaid fines from private trash hauler
These days, the media in Charlottesville has been awash in the unlikeliest of topics: garbage. Solid waste, that is. For months we’ve been reading and hearing about the […]
Virginia politicians were just too darn easy to lampoon in 2009
Well, here we are, poised at the starting gate of another fantabulous year.
Blanket action
Hey Ace: During the snowstorm, I cleaned my house and went through some old things. I have a couple of blankets I no longer use, and was wondering how I […]
With the Virginia state pharmacy closing, the area's neediest could be stripped of their prescription drugs
The state’s already-stretched safety net just got thinner. And, as usual, Virginia’s neediest people are the ones most likely to fall through. Two months after it terminated filling prescriptions, the […]
Abuses exposed at Fluvanna Correctional Center
Helen Trainor reads about 50 letters a month from women at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women.