On an unseasonably warm day on Friday, February 15, Twobears Burgos and Matt Williams tackled the never-ending business of repairing the surface of the Downtown Mall. City Parks & Rec maintenance employees, they work a patch between Second and Third streets where some unknown force—tree roots? constant jostling? poor drainage?—had turned the bricks into a […]
The skinny: The Board of Supervisors approved special-use permits to allow for two Verizon Wireless towers, one on Carter Mountain, and the other off I-64 and Dick Woods Road near Ivy. The county Planning Commission looked at a third tower, destined for 29N, at their February 12 meeting.Next step: Build the durn things. The third […]
Martha Jefferson Hospital We reported a couple of weeks ago on the updates to the plans for redeveloping the Martha Jefferson Hospital site on the corner of Locust Avenue and High Street, which still lacks a developer and needs to be sold to finance the new facility at Pantops. In a January 31 meeting with […]
The Virginia Defense Force’s 3rd Brigade will activate another battalion to serve in Charlottesville, as well as the Staunton, Lexington and Clifton Forge areas.
Are state Democrats now marching to the same beat as the Republicans when it comes to immigration?
New York Times columnist Frank Rich writes of a racial sea change in Virginia politics that may make Senator John McCain’s campaign stink worse than low tide.
Well, look what popped up in Sunday’s Daily Progress, page B7, just across from George Will himself.
When this year’s General Assembly kicked off, there were around 120 bills that would have had a negative impact on the state’s immigrant communities as local politicians responded to the national, and in some places local, hysteria over illegal immigration. Many of those bills died in subcommittee, but according to Tim Freilich, legal director of […]
Proposals to ban smoking in public places such as restaurants, stores and offices came to a dead end once again in the Virginia House of Delegates, reports The Washington Post today.
Sexshuns, a sneaker and apparel store on the Downtown Mall, was raided by federal agents yesterday.