City, YMCA negotiate agreement [November 6]
In the end, the Charlottesville City Council moved the Piedmont Family YMCA proposal for a $12 million facility at McIntire Park one step closer…
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City, YMCA negotiate agreement [November 6]
Swim lanes, school priority seen as potential deal breakers
In the end, the Charlottesville City Council moved the Piedmont Family YMCA proposal for a $12 million facility at McIntire Park one step closer…
The latest chapter [November 6]
William N. "Bill" Peterson, the man who added a twist to Charlottesville-area writer John Grisham's first foray into nonfiction…
Saga of Fourth Street crossing coming to close
At its upcoming November 13 meeting, the City Planning Commission is slated to weigh in on which street on the east end of the Downtown Mall is the proper place for a vehicular crossing, Fourth or Fifth street.
Man Mountain Jr., with the Kings of Belmont
music Saturday night at Satellite Ballroom kicked off with local quintet Kings of Belmont. Having seen their name on flyers around town for a while, I had begun to imagine that they were some sort of messy, alcohol-fueled garage rock band. I was only partially wrong. Alcohol certainly factors into the Kings’ equation (in one […]
Transmission lines power debate at law school
"I think that on a Friday afternoon on a beautiful autumn day in Virginia, it'd be pretty difficult to hold a crowd…
To execute or not to execute [November 2]
Bob McDonnell opposes the call by the The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports today that Virginia Attorney General American Bar Association (ABA) for a halt on executions.
Pick one: public gets a look at last two interchange designs [November 2]
In the early 1980s, Virginia Germino's 12-year-old daughter, unbeknownst to her parents, wrote a letter to the newspaper opposing the Meadowcreek Parkway (MCP).
Left behind [November 1]
Looking for further evidence that the U.S. is lagging behind other industrial nations when it comes to education?
Last minute contributions roll in [October 31]
It's five days until city and county elections, people, and last-minute contributors to…
Freud, Hitler, Moses & America
University of Virginia English professor Mark Edmundson was in his late teens when he stumbled across a copy of The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud while at a friend's house, and began to read an excerpt from The Interpretation of Dreams.