Sure, Charlottesville has one of the nation’s lowest unemployment rates at 3.4 percent, but that doesn’t mean we’re immune to the pox that is the worldwide economy. For one thing, the Virginia Employment Commission reports that locally 1,000 net non-farm jobs have been lost in the past year. Fortunately, we’ve got UVA to look to. […]
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There may be a whole slew of walking area blocked off for construction (the 200 block on the west end, the 100 and 300 blocks on the east end)
And we’re off! The Downtown Mall rebricking has officially begun.
Dear Ace: The Shoppes of Clover Lawn is a shop-ping center on Rockfish Gap in Crozet. Why do the businesses in that area, including Blue Ridge Builders Supply across the street, have Charlottesville addresses and not Crozet ones? —Biff Clavin Biff: Bear with Ace, because the answer to this question may be slow going. But […]
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Handed the giant lemon of a recession, Charlottesville’s Planning Commission hopes to squeeze lemonade.
The inside headline for last week’s cover story, “City missteps,” is inadvertently misleading, as it implies that the story contains more criticisms than questions about the city’s Downtown Mall rebricking project. The inside headline should have been the same one that appeared on the cover, “City misstep?”
“I think we are all attuned to the fact that people from different racial backgrounds experience Charlottesville differently,”
After a 2008 season that gave new meaning to the word “uneven,” not to mention “maddening,” UVA football Head Coach Al Groh is adding some new blood to his staff.