Iraq vet's journey from soldier to "malingerer"
When he talks about the sludge of bureaucracy that Iraq veterans must wade through for combat-related disability pay
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Iraq vet's journey from soldier to "malingerer"
James Wilson's three-year struggle to prove his combat injury
When he talks about the sludge of bureaucracy that Iraq veterans must wade through for combat-related disability pay
Health department ad riles the right
The poster is a simple design—black and white over a purple background, a man’s hand cupping the tiny palm of a child. The tag line reads: "It doesn’t feel right when I see them together." This poster has raised the ire of fathers’ rights fighters like Rush Limbaugh, who feel it alleges all hand-holding daddies […]
Drought Watch 2007
With area streams running 25 percent below normal (as indicated by the glass above), the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) was expected to declare a drought watch, the first of three phases of drought conditions. It means that we all should "voluntarily conserve water at every opportunity." RSWA reports that as of July 18, […]
Federman rocks VT panel
Of those presenting to the Virginia Tech Incident Review Panel at Darden School of Business on July 18, none topped Russ Federman, director of UVA's Center for Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), whose candor garnered the full attention of the panelists and audience.
Big ideas from commission on the future
It’s hard to imagine too many of us working stiffs mucking through the entire draft report of recommendations from the [da da dum!] Commission on the Future. So to save us all some hassle, C-VILLE sifted through the river of verbiage to extract what golden proposals are buried in its depths. As a bit of […]
Huge divide in area mortgage lending
Sure, Charlottesville has seen the top of plenty of best-of lists. But recently the area ranked No. 1 in a study [A PDF version of the study is available here] that’s one ugly black eye for the community. According to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), African Americans in Charlottesville received high-cost loans 3.9 times […]
CVS out of proposed W. Main building
A 101′-tall building was to come to the rescue of plans for a CVS on the corner of W. Main and McIntire, but a pharmacy at the current location of RSC Equipment Rental is no longer likely. "We’re working under the premise that it’s out," says site developer Bob Englander. "We think it makes for […]
Area home sales down 17 percent
After smacking bottom at the end of 2006, the Charlottesville-area real estate market has leveled off, despite a 17 percent drop in sales from this time last year. That’s according to the Mid-Year Market Report [PDF version of the report available here] from the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors (CAAR), which says now that we’ve […]
Red dirt alert!
Soil on Route 29N always seems to be in a state of upheaval, though not always with concrete plans in the works. When we reported last year on this 35-acre Albemarle County site, north of Airport Road, we were told the earth movements were simply to keep active a site plan for an 80,000-square-foot building, […]
Sweet Crude Bill and The Lighthouse Nautical Society, with Accordion Death Squad
music As I arrived at Outback Lodge, San Francisco’s Sweet Crude Bill and the Lighthouse Nautical Society were finishing up their second song. As a burst of vocal warbles and aggressive guitar strums punctuated the piece, Peter Agelasto from Monkeyclaus, the Nelson County studio/art farm where the band started out, told me that Bill was […]