However big you think you are

More feature articles: Man on a mission Josh Bare is driven to shelter the homeless. Last week, the city wanted to shut him down. Now, it will try to help. The Sixth Annual Homeless Census and Point in Time Count The Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless finds that number of homeless has risen […]

Is Hope duplicating PACEM?

More feature articles: Man on a mission Josh Bare is driven to shelter the homeless. Last week, the city wanted to shut him down. Now, it will try to help. The Sixth Annual Homeless Census and Point in Time Count The Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless finds that number of homeless has risen […]

Where is the First Street Church?

More feature articles: Man on a mission Josh Bare is driven to shelter the homeless. Last week, the city wanted to shut him down. Now, it will try to help. The Sixth Annual Homeless Census and Point in Time Count The Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless finds that number of homeless has risen […]

The Sixth Annual Homeless Census and Point in Time Count

More feature articles: Man on a missionJosh Bare is driven to shelter the homeless. Last week, the city wanted to shut him down. Now, it will try to help. However big you think you are The Rutherford Institute gets Where is the First Street Church?Shadyac’s vision is yet to be realized Is Hope duplicating PACEM? […]

County Circuit Court goes online

Almost a year ago, the state jerked more than $50,000 from Charlottesville’s Circuit Court after it found that clerk Paul Garrett falsely claimed his office’s records were online—state law required that all municipalities have their records online by July 2007. Then the General Assembly granted a reprieve for another year, extending the deadline to July […]

Van shooting suspects denied bond

Less than one week after driving a van into a chain-link fence, Curtis Tyrell Montague, Candace Marie Williams and Jada Marie Dubrose Dickerson were denied bond until May 1, when they will appear in court to set a preliminary hearing. Together, Montague, Williams and Dickerson were charged with first-degree murder, robbery and firearms charges in […]

Medical malpractice?

Plaintiff: Cynthia Johnson Defendants: UVA Health System, Commonwealth of Virginia, Dr. Kenneth Greer and John Termini Court: Charlottesville Circuit CourtWhat’s at issue: Whether the dermatology doctor is responsible for injuries allegedly inflicted by a student under his watch. On August 10, 2004, the plaintiff was a patient of Greer’s when Termini—a Louisiana State student who […]

Why can’t city and county recycle together?

As the deadline nears for the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority (RSWA) to release its final report on its solid waste strategic plan, there is one idea that the head of the RSWA isn’t considering. It hardly seems controversial—consolidating curbside trash and recycling pickup in the city and county—but because of an 18-year-old agreement, it’s off […]

Partisans bicker over execution word choice

Among the P.R. flotsam and jetsam swirling in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s April 16 decision on lethal injection, a semantic battle over the death penalty continues in Virginia. On April 1, Democratic Governor Tim Kaine granted what he called “a temporary reprieve” of the April 8 execution of Edward Nathaniel Bell while […]

Your tax dollars, at work

Worked for the county for: 11 yearsResides in: Charlottesville Job title: Lead custodian at Jackson Burley Middle School. He has four other assistant custodians to aid him in his daily quest to keep the bathrooms sanitary, the cafeteria clean, the floors sparkling and the mice out of the classrooms. Calvin Sowell, Sr. Best of times: […]