Inmates prepare for life after jail
A little after 10am on a sunny May 30, five women in orange prison garb filed into a closed room in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail for their graduation from a re-entry program.
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Inmates prepare for life after jail
Five women graduate from re-entry program
A little after 10am on a sunny May 30, five women in orange prison garb filed into a closed room in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail for their graduation from a re-entry program.
Charlottesville Dreamers move on and up
Financial advisor Chris Poe was a college student when he first heard of the I Have a Dream Foundation while watching a “60 Minutes” segment on the program, which started 20 years ago to help poor inner city kids with school and life. “I thought that would really be cool to do someday,” he says. […]
Your tax dollars, at work
Worked for the city for: 30 years Resides in: Charlottesville Job title: Commissioner of Revenue. Raymond’s office assesses personal property, handles state income, estimated income, daily rental and transient taxes, among others, and runs housing relief programs. Lee Richards Best of times: “You seem to be able to get the same amount of work done […]
Candid camera
The night of the Charlottesville High School prom, April 26, it’s raining. In front of the school, three kids are standing under an overhang to keep their hairdos and clothes out of the drizzle. A lone white limo lumbers away from the curb. Most everybody who’s going to come is already here. They’ve already walked […]
A life in pictures
More feature articles Candid camera Photo giant Mary Ellen Mark turns her lens to the Charlottesville High School prom Dwindling supply Adventures in Polaroid Land The first picture of Mary Ellen Mark’s I remember seeing is one of her most famous. It shows the Damm family—a sometimes-homeless clan—during a period in 1987 when they were […]
World financial leaders to invade Charlottesville
For three days in September, Charlottesville will become ground zero for finance leaders from around the world. This fall, The Miller Center of Public Affairs will host “The New Financial Architecture: A Global Summit” on September 7 to 9.
Dwindling supply
More feature articles Candid cameraPhoto giant Mary Ellen Mark turns her lens to the Charlottesville High School prom A life in pictures A look at Mary Ellen Mark’s photography Mark in Charlottesville As part of the Festival of the Photograph, Mary Ellen Mark will be one of three headlining artists (the others are Joel-Peter Witkin […]
U.Conn. snatches high level prof
In the hiring game, sometimes UVA scores top profs and administrators from other universities—as happened with incoming Arts & Sciences Dean Meredith Woo from the University of Michigan—and sometimes it sees its own faculty gutted by other institutions. One of UVA’s biggest losses this academic offseason is Dr. Cato Laurencin, chairman of the orthopedic surgery […]
No smoky backroom deals with Philip Morris
When The New York Times revealed Virginia Commonwealth University’s secret deal with Richmond-based Philip Morris USA, the story surely sent a shiver through other universities. In exchange for undisclosed millions, VCU agreed not to publish—or even discuss—research without the company’s approval. In the story, Senior Vice President Rick Solona said that Philip Morris had similar […]
Admissions blog wins over students
When she started blogging under the name Dean J, Jeannine Lalonde was writing under the UVA radar. At her last job, she had talked about doing an admissions blog, but the idea fizzled, seeming unfeasible. Then she came to UVA. During her first year as an assistant dean of admissions, Lalonde created a blog to […]