I recently spent a beautiful spring day among the historic confines of the University’s Miller Center as an audience member during the second public meeting of the Virginia Commission on Climate Change held on March 27. From my seat in the Forum Room, it dawned on me that the Commission potentially faces a Sisyphusian task—they […]
More:Juggling your rightsChris Bliss to perform at Thomas Jefferson Center fundraiser When it came to freedom of speech, Thomas Jefferson’s view boils down to this: Use it, without limits, or lose it. Eighteen years ago, a local newspaperman named Tom Worrell established the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and since then, […]
An obituary for David Newsom—a 90-year-old former U.S. ambassador and veteran of the State Department during the Iranian Hostage Crisis—ran in the New York Times, noting Newsom’s death at the University of Virginia Medical Center. Newsom was a critic of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration and its wide support of the admission of Iranian Shah […]
Bob Gibson’s last effort for The Daily Progress, ironically titled “This isn’t a goodbye column,” appeared today. After 31 years with the paper, Gibson will be executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at UVA as of April 21. The content of the column ranges from the expected and cozy (read: boring): “The […]
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.
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 […]
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, […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]