Will proposed county tax hike ruffle city-county relations?
The 2009 local budget season officially got started last week
Mall rebricking project on time, under budget
When the Downtown rebricking project got underway, it was clouded by pervasive public skepticism about the city’s ability to get a project done on time and on budget, particularly following the Third Street debacle. Yet the rebricking is halfway to completion and, says city steward of the project Jim Tolbert, still on budget. READ MORE […]
Cold front headed for hell
Faulconer Construction got started on the county portion of the Meadowcreek Parkway last week, carving out an access way to begin building a bridge over Meadow Creek. Meanwhile, opponents also got busy, asking the Board of Supervisors to hold off on the 40-year-old project until permits are acquired for the other two portions of the […]
Budget cuts target Virginia's neediest kids…to save $8 million
Each of us is going through a version of it right now: What do I really need? What can I live without? We are reevaluating our daily cup of coffee, the weekly ticket to the movies, next month’s trip to New York. For the most part, our cutbacks will affect ourselves, our spouse, our children. […]
Pull the chord
Dear Ace: Whatever happened to Sparky’s Flaw? Was it fixed?—Dylan Bobbit Dylan: When a pop rock band incorporates a “flaw” into its name, it immediately becomes fodder for bad jokes like yours. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the Flaw boys debuted their new name—Parachute VA—on New Year’s Eve in Times Square. As […]
Cantor leads GOP attempt to steal prom-king crown
There’s an old joke among political journalists that Washington, D.C. is Hollywood for ugly people. To that delightful adage, we would like to add our own observation that it’s also like the world’s biggest high school, only with the exalted position usually reserved for the football team given instead to the debate club. Republican Rep. […]
VQR finds a world of worthy tales in Cuba
The experience of reading the new issue of the VQR is a little like traveling across the world, if the reader could move through recent time along with space: The Winter 2009 issue is titled “Fidel’s Cuba (and the Legacy of the Cold War)” and its three central essays range from travel narrative to a […]
Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight
We’re now into the second month of our highly selective tour through the past two decades of local news and arts in C-VILLE. Already, we’ve touted our early jump on the Obama bandwagon (remember, this is the paper that projected DMB’s rise to the top), and this week we revisit some music news to jive […]
State bill would open options for sacked employees
On September 11, 2006, Ralph Schultz was fired. Just a couple of days earlier, Schultz, a UVA tech guy in charge of computers and servers
What's in your backpack?
Greg Casar Age: 19 Year: Sophomore Hometown: Houston, Texas Major: Politics What’s in your backpack? Laptop, laptop cord, orange highlighter, pen, class notes, beaded bracelet from Guatemala, hacky sack from Mexico, Ashes of Izalco by Claribel Alegía, dinner knife, flyer for global development major, Kant: Political Writings, Ziploc bag with half-eaten orange. C-VILLE welcomes news […]