Sticker shock
Dear Ace: I’ve seen cars around Charlottesville with Ekeland County stickers on them, but there’s no such county in Virginia. What’s that all about?—T. Own-Cryer T.: Well, Ace isn’t too […]
UVA Institute finds lessons in Tech shootings
Roger Depue, former FBI agent and member of the Virginia Tech shooting commission, stood in front of members of the mental health officials and talked about “leakage.”
Local roadblock [February 5]
On Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2001, White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke sent out an e-mail warning of a great tragedy where “hundreds of Americans lay dead in several countries, including the U.S.,”
Stacking, stepping, selling and shooting
Todd Lucas is a natural public speaker. With his close-cropped hair and nearly perfect sense of timing, he talks with an aggressive brand of humor that isn’t so much of […]
The game is on [February 1]
John Whitehead, president of the Charlottesville civil liberties group the Rutherford Institute, has been itching to sue the NFL over its ban on big-screen Super Bowl church parties.
New job tolls for Bell? [January 31]
In today’s Washington Post, Staff Writer Tim Craig puts Delegate Rob Bell, who represents
Going global [January 30]
The Financial Times has ranked UVA’s Darden School of Business 33rd in the world and 16th in
Virginia creeper
Dear Ace: This isn’t a Charlottesville question, per se, but could you help settle a disagreement about driving etiquette? When trying to make a left-hand turn at a traffic light, […]
Man of the Decade
With fewer stories about Iraq in the media, many Americans are not aware of the great improvements there. Al Qaeda no longer has substantial control of any area of Iraq…
Jukebox
Chan Marshall’s concert at the Satellite Ballroom in 2005 was everything I’d been led to expect it would be: a few sparse, harrowing blues originals from the nervous chanteuse with […]