There was a time in the not-too-distant past that a developer could stand in front of the county Board of Supervisors or the city’s Planning Commission, tout his or her project’s green-building designs and ride the environmentally feel-good wave all the way to approval. That time may be beginning to pass. The revolution of green-building […]
A week before Christmas, Springridge (part of Forest Lakes) resident Denise Wall was looking out the back window of her house into a creek at the bottom of the hill. To her horror, a trapper waist deep in the water was removing two dead beavers. He carried the beavers by their tails out of the […]
The Compton House, a.k.a. the former Beta Theta House, is now but a pile of rubble. Yet though its driveway is now a road to nowhere, the Thomas Jefferson Scholars Foundation sees this as a road to knowledge. Architecture firm VMDO is designing a 22,000-square-foot center to accommodate a growing number of graduate student fellowships. […]
Wendell Wood has at last gotten a lease for 40,000 square feet of rental space to be used by the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC), a lease he has long been hoping for (and which he suggested to the county Board of Supervisors in August was all but guaranteed). On November 30, the U.S. General […]
She was just there to attend a rummage sale. On July 2, 2005, Violet Seabolt was making her way up a wooden public access ramp to enter the Scottsville Community Center in Dorrier Park.
For previous coverage of NGIC, click here. The National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) is a top secret U.S. Army military installation mounted on a hillside off 29N. As such, it is technically federal property, so that if you were to get into a fender bender, for instance, while winding up Boulder’s Road towards the center […]
Things are falling into place for the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, the first new school at UVA since…
Vesla Weaver leans across her desk and points to a graph on her computer screen. There are three bars. Each represents a different skin color of African Americans; the bars’ height shows the education and income levels for each statistical group. The chart is one of many, but each one shows the same thing: As […]
We know it doesn’t pay to play coulda-shoulda-woulda, but we couldn’t resist a rundown of plays that in toto gave the Gator Bowl to Texas Tech (mercifully, we’ll only start in the second half): Texas Tech recovers a surprise onside kick; refs don’t allow UVA Coach Al Groh to challenge a Red Raider fumble; quarterback […]
Joel Salatin (left) is trying to get someone to sponsor a bill that would allow Richard Bean (right) to process his own pork without state oversight. “The culture is still worshiping at the feet of experts,” Salatin says. In the General Assembly session that will kick off this week, State Senator Creigh Deeds will introduce […]