Clinton boots Penn [April 7]
Local talking head Larry Sabato weighed in today on NPR’s Morning Edition regarding the departure of senior strategist Mark Penn from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
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Clinton boots Penn [April 7]
Sabato sez Hillary could’ve dumped him long ago
Local talking head Larry Sabato weighed in today on NPR’s Morning Edition regarding the departure of senior strategist Mark Penn from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Juggling your rights
Main feature: You can’t say that!Roll call for the 2008 Muzzle Awards, this year starring The Cavalier Daily and a host of other would-be censors If your business card advertises you as both a stand-up comedian and juggler, you might wonder if tacking on a third occupation—“lobbyist,” for example—is trying to keep one pin too […]
Down but not out
Dear Ace: I was driving to the skate park on McIntire the other day, but when I got there, it was gone! Can you find out where it went?—S. Kate Urgurl Kate: May Ace call you Kate? Well, Kate, first Ace must ask you: Do you think perhaps the park grew tired of its location, […]
Chief Longo tours pedestrian shortfalls
It’s hard to see the flaws in the city’s pedestrian infrastructure unless you walk it: The intersections where the push button to walk is mysteriously far away.
Design work continues for new dam
The view is spectacular. The trees have yet to blossom, and so the placid slate gray waters of the Ragged Mountain Reservoir are in sharp relief against the earth tones around them. I’m standing on a hill that will one day be the water’s new edge, assuming permits come through and the community continues to […]
Downzoning by choice
Most developers want to max out the building potential of a parcel. But Wavertree Hall LLC wants to downzone 145 acres of land located in Greenwood from planned residential to rural area zoning. Most of the land is off limits anyway because of conservation easements, but Wavertree wanted to lower its tax rate by rezoning […]
Residents upset over graveyard vandalism
Knocking down headstones and tagging memorials with spraypaint may not bother the dead, but it sure does piss off the living. A recent round of vandalism in Maplewood Cemetery has angered nearby residents and reopened a sore spot between them and the city that stretches back for the better part of a decade. Maplewood, just […]
Bad gets worse for alleged I-64 shooter
The month of March ended badly for Slade Allen Woodson. On March 31, Albemarle County police charged Woodson with five additional felony counts connected to the I-64 shootings, the same day he was denied bail in a Waynesboro courtroom. Woodson now faces a total of 17 felony counts, 15 in Albemarle and two in Waynesboro. […]
You can check out any time you like…really
The MacDonalds have occupied two rooms at the Residence Inn since August 2006, though the hotel contends that they haven’t paid since November. Plaintiff: Marriott International, Inc. Defendants: Terrence MacDonald, et al Court: Charlottesville Circuit Court What’s at issue: Whether Terrence MacDonald and three family members overstayed their welcome at the Marriott Residence Inn on […]
For Region Ten, more money means more responsibility
First in a two-part series on mental health reform Spurred by last year’s mass shooting at Virginia Tech, state legislators this spring unanimously passed a package of bills that will bring more people into a mental health care system that is already stretched thin. While the state gave the Department of Mental Health roughly $42 […]