Scottsville streetscape off schedule, over budget
The name of the game is “Second Chances.” The contestant? Nearby Scottsville, one of a slew of cities across Virginia trying to revamp its downtown area in the hope of attracting more tourists.
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Scottsville streetscape off schedule, over budget
Some businesses apprehensive as Phase II begins
The name of the game is “Second Chances.” The contestant? Nearby Scottsville, one of a slew of cities across Virginia trying to revamp its downtown area in the hope of attracting more tourists.
Public hearing will decide sale of Ridge lots
After receiving only one bid, from the developer they expected, City Council will hold a public hearing on the sale of two lots near the corner of Cherry Avenue and Ridge Street, which, if sold, could usher in dense development on what is some of the only vacant land near Downtown. The two discontiguous lots, […]
Does Charlottesville have a gang problem?
Todd Lucas is a difficult man to doubt. He is earnest and he is forceful and he is a person possessed of an electric personality channeled through a gleaming sledgehammer of a smile. So if Detective Todd Lucas of the Charlottesville Police Department says that there are gangs operating in a fair city such as […]
Smattering of protestors greet Bush
Of the 3,000 in attendance only six were escorted from the premises. Seventy-two others, who left of their own free will, were newly minted United States citizens. Despite the promise of angry protests disrupting the address of President George W. Bush at the 46th annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony at Monticello, the event went off smoothly.
State criminalizes salvia, nobody notices
At midnight July 1, Salvia Divinorum, the mind altering Mexican plant whose use by teenagers has been sweeping the nation (or so says some media), officially became illegal, giving some Virginians out there a cool, new, felony-level, drug-using past. Last March, Governor Tim Kaine signed into law HB21, the Virginia bill criminalizing the drug. Since […]
Federal FOIA suit filed against Army
Jayson Whitehead v. the United States Department of the Army is now official. More than a year and a half after filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the appraisal of Wendell Wood’s land that was sold to the Army in 2006, I have now had to sue in federal court. In late […]
Your tax dollars, at work
Worked for the county for: 3 years Resides in: Augusta CountyJob title: Division manager for revenue and taxation. The division is responsible for preparing all the bills for personal property and real estate taxes and acts as a fiscal agent for other agencies around the county and state. The division also oversees assessing all individually […]
Get smart
Dear Ace: Is there anything you don’t know?—Harry Stottle Harry: Ace does not walk blindly through life. He keeps his eyes peeled, his ears open and his hands to himself (unless encouraged otherwise, of course). This acute awareness prevents him from missing much and, consequently, he’s acquired a goodly amount of useful (and less-than-useful, natch) knowledge. […]
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
An appreciation of Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid series has always depended largely on one simple thing: How do you feel about “cut scenes”? If you enjoy having your game play routinely interrupted by these 10-minute-to-hour-long animated movies that advance the story, well, you’re in luck: The fourth and final installment in the saga of […]
I Am My Own Wife
Anticipating a one-person show—even if it’s Doug Wright’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play, I Am My Own Wife—isn’t an altogether pleasant experience. It’s just so hard to believe that a single actor can strike up the whole band, so to speak, let alone make resonant music. Visions of Jerry Seinfeld with no Jason Alexander […]