Previous coverage: Rutherford challenges abusive driver feesCharlottesville judge upheld fees, Institute will appeal As The Rutherford Institute prepares for its appeal in the Charlottesville Circuit Court challenging the constitutionality of Virginia’s abusive-driver fees, other legal challenges across the state are also playing themselves out. The challenges come at a time when state lawmakers are facing […]
Previous coverage: Rutherford challenges abusive driver feesCharlottesville judge upheld fees, Institute will appeal As The Rutherford Institute prepares for its appeal in the Charlottesville Circuit Court challenging the constitutionality of Virginia’s abusive-driver fees, other legal challenges across the state are also playing themselves out. The challenges come at a time when state lawmakers are facing […]
Back in 2002, the UVA athletics department drew up some lofty 10-year goals for its 25 intercollegiate sports teams. This year, top donors to the athletics program received an update on those goals. Said Athletic Director Craig Littlepage in the introduction: "We can recruit the best prospects and ensure that they achieve academically, we can […]
Michael Klarman leans back in his office chair and kicks his feet up on the desk.
Previous coverage: Supes try to delay rural "protections" voteThose up for re-election concerned about details, constituents Wyant credits the tractor factorCounty moves forward with rural-area restrictions Supes warm to mountain protectionsBut can’t even discuss extension to all rural areas, yet Mountain overlay proposals irk landownersExtend restrictions county-wide, some say Mountains of info on viewPublic informed […]
Wendell Wood's efforts to build 180,000 square feet of office space and a 120-unit apartment building adjacent to the National Ground Intelligence Center met with another road block at the October 9 Planning Commission meeting.
Fluvanna County leaders got a shock last month when Furniture Brands International’s Creative Interiors announced that it planned to close its doors in Carysbrook next month, taking its 170 jobs with it. The closing comes at a time when the county’s economic prospects are slim. It also comes at a time when the area’s real […]
On this particular Sunday, it is very hot in Rising Sun Baptist Church, and as the noon hour nears small handheld fans bearing the visage of Martin Luther King, Jr. are passed around. Apparently, the heat was turned on this morning and the unseasonable warmth outside is not helping. For a fourth-term incumbent like Lindsay […]
"I’m still riding around with Mr. King," Sergeant Jim Larkin tells a police dispatcher halfway through his hour-long road trip with the Scottsville candidate. "He’s throwing out some serious questions." "Yeah, right," Denny King counters, guffawing, but the sergeant is right. The 63-year-old media executive has peppered the county policeman from the moment the two […]
Invited to address the Mill Creek South Homeowner’s Association, which had been especially active during the Biscuit Run rezoning process, Kevin Fletcher’s night actually begins when he walks through the door of the Cale Elementary cafeteria 10 minutes before his 7pm address and finds one resident sitting on one of the small, hard, round stools […]
The Scottsville race is the least clear cut. Lindsay Dorrier is an incumbent Democrat who tends to vote with the two Republicans on the Board.