Advance America’s pocketbook
Advance America, which has two Charlottesville branches, is the nation’s largest payday lender, with more than double the stores of its nearest competitors, Check ‘n Go and Check into Cash. […]
You call this reform?
More features: Advance America’s pocketbookThe numbers on America’s biggest payday lender Caught!How Thomasine Wilson got trapped in the payday lending cycle Know the scoreCredit reports 101 Leading the lending fightVirginia […]
Know the score
More features: Caught! How Thomasine Wilson got trapped in the payday lending cycle Advance America’s pocketbookThe numbers on America’s biggest payday lender Leading the lending fightVirginia Organizing Project has headed […]
Leading the lending fight
More features: Caught! How Thomasine Wilson got trapped in the payday lending cycle Advance America’s pocketbookThe numbers on America’s biggest payday lender Know the scoreCredit reports 101 Q: Why go […]
Land designation altered against owner’s wishes
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 […]
State approves Fifeville historic district
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. […]
County advertises 71-cent tax rate
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.
Your tax dollars, at work
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 […]
"Photographs from Brazil and Tanzania" [with gallery]
Tomes have been written about the similarity between the camera and the gun.
In The Blood
“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 […]