Your tax dollars, at work
Worked for city for: 1.5 years Resides in: Buckingham County. “I am willing to travel so far because I really do love my job.”Job title: Customer service supervisor. She’s been […]
Cleaning up the plant in our backyard
Leading up to Valentine’s Day, UVA students protested Dominion’s proposal for a new coal power plant in Wise County, Virginia, including stunts on the Lawn. But what about the emission […]
Future commission unveils report
It’s here at last: The report from the Commission on the Future is now. After a year’s worth of work, it has a host of recommendations. “We learned in the […]
The hidden life of UVA
Danny Oberski Year: Junior Age: 22 Major: Economics and psychology Hometown: Ashland, Virginia What’s in your backpack? Detroit Tigers baseball hat, Richard Thaler’s The Winner’s Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of […]
Bikers call for better accident reporting
Though police reports show that there were only eight accidents involving bicyclists in Charlottesville last year, local bike activists beg to differ.
Gang member sentenced to four years
Carmello “Pee Wee” Martinez walked into Charlottesville Circuit Court in the customary striped prison garb. Martinez, an avowed member of the “Bloods”—of Crips and Bloods gang war renown—was arrested this […]
Lawsuit of the week
Plaintiff: Kathleen E. Burg Defendant: CVS of Virginia, Inc. What’s at issue: Whether the drugstore on Long Street is responsible for Burg falling and injuring herself. According to her complaint, […]
Change does him good
The House of the General Assembly—the oldest legislative body in the western hemisphere—basically operates like a middle school classroom, with the speaker of the House playing the role of jaded, […]
Rob Bell’s reading list
In case you got the impression Rob Bell is all business all the time, several colleagues wanted to make sure we know another side of Bell, the quick-witted guy who […]
Bell’s bills 2008
More feature articles: Change does him goodWhy Rob Bell is one of the General Assembly’s most effective politicians Rob Bell’s reading listAnd other humanizing stuff Rob Bell carried 22 bills […]