For the third time in a year, Clara Belle Wheeler has been caught unawares by the county, and she is livid. On Monday, March 17, the Board of Supervisors voted to move Wheeler’s 77 acres from the designated “growth” area to the “rural area,” as part of the Pantops Master Plan, despite her wishes that […]
Despite an outcry by several residents, Virginia’s Department of Historic Resources has designated the Charlottesville neighborhood Fifeville a state historic district by a unanimous vote of the State Review Board. “I’m disappointed,” said Antoinette Roades after the hearing in Richmond. She has been one of the most vocal critics of the Fifeville historic district [PDF], […]
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors has decided to advertise a real estate tax rate of 71 cents for every $100 of assessed value, 3 cents higher than the current rate.
Worked for the county for: 11 yearsResides in: Palmyra Job title: Probate clerk. Kirshnick qualifies guardianships and conservatorships for incapacitated adults. She handles the inventory and accounts for all deceased people in the county. “I have to have a certain demeanor when working with people because they are still grieving.”Best of times: “One person I […]
Tomes have been written about the similarity between the camera and the gun.
“Suffering is an enormous turn-on,” Reverend D intones in a voice that is dark and desperate, but it’s difficult to picture: How Hester La Negrita—homeless, hungry and hunkered down under a bridge beneath graffiti she can’t read—could have seduced a young man, a junk merchant, a doctor, a welfare worker and a Reverend. And yet […]
Even if the UVA men’s basketball team doesn’t add the first ever College Basketball Invitational (CBI) trophy to the case, Sean Singletary has already added a more prestigious memento in his signature collection of Cavalier memories: The Steal.
Since Barack Obama’s speech last week, even C-VILLE’s editor is talking about race. So it should come as no surprise that the New York Times is quoting UVA law Professor Michael Klarman today on the subject. “Nixon talks about ‘law and order,’ which is a code term for the urban race riots and rising crime […]
A letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, written by one Nancy Kaplan and published today, draws a surprising comparison between the recently controversial rhetoric of Barack Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright…
House Bill 239 was the great green hope of 2008: Signed into law by Governor Tim Kaine on March 4, the young law expands the definition of what makes a building "energy efficient" to include a number of different government-sponsored systems of evaluation, and offers the tantalizing possibility of tax breaks for any building that […]