At the risk of incurring yet more angry letters from Ph.D. recipients we’ve (gently) mocked in the past (see: Michael Hightower’s response), it is time again for our recognition of dissertations sedulous UVA students have written that we admire but that we happen to have absolutely no interest in reading. This time around, John Ivor […]
At the risk of incurring yet more angry letters from Ph.D. recipients we’ve (gently) mocked in the past (see: Michael Hightower’s response), it is time again for our recognition of dissertations sedulous UVA students have written that we admire but that we happen to have absolutely no interest in reading. This time around, John Ivor […]
With little fanfare and almost no attention paid, state climatologist Patrick Michaels quit his post at UVA this past June, Bob Gibson of The Daily Progress reported last week. Michaels is perhaps best known for his very vocal skepticism of global warming, arguing that humans had no effect on climate change. “We know how much […]
Bordered by Route 20 to its east and Darden Towe Park to its south, a 77-acre parcel owned by Clara Belle Wheeler is largely wooded except for the grandiose 1862 house she lives in and a few adjoining buildings. Down a rise and located in a small cow pasture is a log house—the reconstructed site […]
So here’s a fun little problem: You’ve got plans for a 101-room boutique hotel on the Downtown Mall. The Mall has almost everything your upper-crust hotel dweller could ever want. Jewelry store? Check. High-end stationery? Oh yeah. Fine dining? Yup. Buskers to get you some of that local flavor? Sure. Parking? Well… For all of […]
When I agreed to report on the results of the city’s design contest for the Water Street parking lots, little did I know the Charlottesville Community Design Center (CCDC) would receive a whopping 63 submissions from six countries. Wait, what? How many ways can you redesign a parking lot? Especially when you have to comply […]
Midway through the morning of September 21, Double H Farm co-owner Jean Rinaldi was mowing the grass around her house when she spotted Virginia state and Nelson County police pull into her driveway.
A woman in her mid-30s, Claiborne Fogelman, stands at the foot of Pelham Road in the Hickory Ridge subdivision outside Earlysville, a camera in hand, taking a picture of Buck Mountain framed by the Blue Ridge and the colors of sunset on a brilliantly clear day. She has come home from work and is struck […]
If you’re a candidate running for the Board of Supervisors, one of the most daunting parts of going door to door is finding people who are not home. You leave a flier anyway, but it’s another voter not met, another minute on the campaign trail that can seem fruitless. So Ann Mallek was delighted recently […]
Big development: Approvals of Biscuit Run and Old Trail have caused some grumblings, as well as the Crozet Master Plan, which many are afraid means a dramatic increase in town population. Just about everyone wants developers to pay their fair share. Wyant supporters would say he’s working toward it, while Mallek supporters would say he’s […]
One of the most poignant and revealing quotes from Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation is, “There’s shit in the meat,” referencing the extremely unsanitary conditions at a beef cattle slaughterhouse in Colorado. Here in Albemarle and Fluvanna counties, beef cattle are excreting in another undesirable location: the Hardware River. In 2006, an estimated 590,000 pounds […]