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Well, here we sit, just a week away from Election Day, and things are certainly not looking up for the good ol’ boy from Bath, Creigh Deeds.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned in 20 years of covering Charlottesville, it’s this: Folks here are political animals, but they’re not always electoral animals. Consider that seven years ago […]

Scandinavian legend has it that in April of 1991, the lead singer of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, who went by the name Dead, committed suicide in a remote cabin owned by the band outside Oslo.

If Creigh Deeds becomes Virginia’s next governor, it will be in spite of himself. If, in a shocking turn of events, Virginia voters elect Creigh Deeds the Commonwealth’s next governor […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated that the Charlottesville region has lost close to 8 percent of its farmland in only five years. Between 2002 and 2007, 56,836 acres were […]

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2005, in Charlottesville 9,101 residents were living in poverty. That’s 23.7 percent of the total population.   What is the role of City […]

The latest budget reductions announced by Gov. Tim Kaine in early September included a 4.7 percent cut for sheriff’s offices. Given the budget cuts to the Charlottesville Sheriff’s Office, what […]

According to the Virginia Department of Education, the drop-out rate for county schools, although lower than that of the city, is still significant. How would you address this question? What […]

According to the Virginia Department of Education, the drop-out rate for Charlottesville high school students is 13 percent. How would you address this question? What measures would you recommend, specifically, […]

The rising number of inmates in state prisons correlates to the rising number of detached families and a rising number of children raised without parents. Are there meaningful changes the […]