Way back in July, Charlottesville had grand designs on breaking ground for the Meadowcreek Parkway (MCP) in the fall of 2008. Fast forward nine months, and the birth of the controversial parkway through a park is still far off in the distance. At an April 21 City Council meeting, where 30 of the 34 public […]
For the better part of four decades, thoughts about health insurance rarely crossed the mind of Rachel Stegeman. She worked. Her husband worked.
Worked for city for: Three yearsResides in: Charlottesville Job title: Director of Communications, a.k.a. the city spokesman. Barrick oversees media relations in town, runs the three local access TV channels, works as a liaison for the Police Department and manages the internal communications of City Hall. Ric Barrick Best of times: “I love the most […]
On March 11, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the news that one in four girls between the ages of 14 and 19 have at least one sexually transmitted infection (STI). If their study, which is based on a nationally representative sample of over 800 teen girls, speaks for the entire […]
More feature articles: Playing around with sex edOne girl in four has an STI. Something has to change. Grading the presidential candidates on sex edPlanned Parenthood’s Becky Reid on McCain, Clinton and Obama For more information…Organizations and articles on the Web HPV Most people infected with HPV will not have any symptoms. HPV infection is […]
If you care either way about the current state of sexual education, you shouldn’t have a hard choice between John McCain and the two remaining Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Both Obama and Clinton wracked up 100-percent pro-choice voting records with the Planned Parenthood Action Fund on issues that range from sexual education […]
More feature articles: Playing around with sex edOne girl in four has an STI. Something has to change. Grading the presidential candidates on sex edPlanned Parenthood’s Becky Reid on McCain, Clinton and Obama Facts about and symptoms of common STIsHPV, Chlamydia, Genital herpes and Trichomoniasis Organizations and articles on the Web Advocates for Youth(advocatesforyouth.org) European […]
Wade Apartments, one of the titans of local student housing, made quick work of erecting a 20-unit apartment building at 1620 Jefferson Park Ave., but a neighbor is claiming in court that its rise came at his expense. Charles diPierro lives at 106 Oakhurst Cir. and shares a boundary line with Jefferson Commons, which Wade […]
Harrison Rue, executive director of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission (TJPDC), announced recently that he’s leaving his post to take a consulting position in Raleigh, North Carolina. Could the departure of Rue, who has been a key leader in the Places29 master planning process, allow the Western Bypass to arise phoenix-like from the dustbin […]
Charlottesville is turning over several city-owned parcels to the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity. While that’s nothing particularly new for the city, in addition, the city is acting as the primary sponsor for the construction of two new houses—which is, as far as local officials can tell, the first time nationally that a city […]