I’ll show you…by crossing the border [February 24]
Several locals say they will address the plight of immigrants—by trekking across the border themselves.
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I’ll show you…by crossing the border [February 24]
Locals step into immigrants' shoes
Several locals say they will address the plight of immigrants—by trekking across the border themselves.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! [February 25]
This weekend, a story in the Hampton Roads-area newspaper, the Daily Press, details the choice facing Virginia’s 16 so-called superdelegates—namely, Barack or Hillary.
Van Halen concert postponed [February 22]
There will be no “Runnin’ With The Devil” or getting “Hot For Teacher” tonight.
Passes pay off for UVA women’s basketball player [February 22]
During Thursday night’s 83-71 win against Clemson, UVA women’s basketball player Sharneé Zoll broke the ACC record for all-time assists.
One of their own [February 21]
NBC29 reports that criminal and internal police investigations have been launched against a longtime Albemarle County police officer, Jeffrey Turner, in a case that began with a February 10 9-1-1 domestic violence call from his house in Crozet.
What am I doing wrong? [February 20]
Today’s Daily Progress brings our attention to the fact that one Artis Wayne Keyton, Jr. was arrested Tuesday on charges of arson and vandalism, after allegedly trying to set fire to the house on Bolling Avenue where the 31-year-old man lives with his mother.
Journey of reconciliation
Sixty-four years ago this July, a well-dressed, sassy and indomitable young black woman named Irene Morgan bought a $5 Greyhound bus ticket from the “Colored” window at Haye’s grocery store in Gloucester, Virginia. She was 27 years old, a mother of two, and on her way to visit a doctor in Baltimore, hoping to address […]
Voting on faith
How can we be sure our votes in the February 12 primaries were properly counted? We can trust and hope, but we cannot be certain. Charlottesville uses DRE voting machines (Directly Recording Electronic voting machines). While the city brags that these are not touch-screen machines, because we turn a dial instead of touching a screen, […]
Two out of three aren’t good
Ace: Where have all the good Samaritans gone?—Eve Hull Eve: According to the Gospel of Luke, the good Samaritan took mercy on a man who was beaten and left for dead by robbers. Seems like his influence has reached far and wide because if you Google “good samaritans,” more than 500,000 results come up. Type […]
Cardboard Wings [with audio]
Ten years ago this month, a 27-year-old Louisiana native named Jeff Mangum and his band, Neutral Milk Hotel, released In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, an album that spent the ensuing years turning mixed reviews into a near-uniform chorus of praise.