Virginia for Obama? Inconceivable
With the increasingly consequential presidential election of 2008 just one nerve-racking
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Virginia for Obama? Inconceivable
No one will believe it until it actually happens
With the increasingly consequential presidential election of 2008 just one nerve-racking
Novelties in the new HR plan divide staff
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Finally official, conservative student group hosts first speaker
Months after a First Amendment controversy threatened the association, Thomas Jefferson now keeps the company of Edmund Burke. UVA’s branch of The Burke Society, a student group dedicated to understanding the theory of the late British political theorist, had their first major event on campus on October 15. The conservative student group hosted flame-thrower David […]
What's in your backpack?
Peter Oliver Age: 24 Hometown: Morehead City, North Carolina Year: Third year medical student What’s in your backpack? Wallet, hospital ID, ophthalmoscope, Tums, Ibuprofen, Band-aid, ear plugs, laser pointer, three pencils, blue pen, $3 in change, poem from mentor, shipping receipt, good luck note from girlfriend, Zune MP3 player, empty plastic food container in plastic […]
Speed racer
In the early ‘80s a class of fifth graders from Stonewall Elementary School in Clear Brook, close to Winchester, took a field trip to White Post Restorations, a car restoration shop in White Post, Virginia. On that afternoon, the kids looked inside some of the most specialized and elite cars ever designed—Bentleys, Rollses, Jags. But […]
Dangerous curves
Since his childhood, a dream of working on luxury cars has revved Kenny Shreves’ engines. He currently works mostly on Porsches in Werkstatt, his performance shop in Charlottesville, where vehicles like this finished Porsche (top left) are prepped for the track (top right). His current fixation is the Ford GT (center), a $1 million […]
Speed thrills
When I arrived at the Augusta Government Center in Verona, I was immediately greeted by a line of Porsches waiting for their turn to race the circuit. I was supposed to be meeting Sherry Westfall and husband James Condon, social chair and webmaster of the Shenandoah Regional Porsche Club of America, respectively. This was the […]
Lawsuits brewing over MCP
Even though City Council has cast its final vote on the city road portion of the
Craig buys Wachovia building for $6.7M
Not everyone is in retreat mode during the current economic climate. Local developer Hunter Craig has purchased the Wachovia building on the Downtown Mall for $6.65 million. The building at 119-123 E. Main St. is the Mall’s tallest structure, with Wachovia as the principal tenant. The properties will be managed by CB Richard Ellis-Charlottesville, which […]
Hotel developers given leeway with facade
The black granite façade of the former Boxer Learning Center