Local growth outpaces police staffing
There are many signs in Charlottesville and Albemarle County that reflect the strain growth is increasingly placing on the area, from the inadequacy of sewer infrastructure to a limited
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Local growth outpaces police staffing
War on Terror also a factor in city, county cop shortages
There are many signs in Charlottesville and Albemarle County that reflect the strain growth is increasingly placing on the area, from the inadequacy of sewer infrastructure to a limited
Legal experts weigh VT suits
Parents send their kids to college for a safe environment where they can earn a degree and learn to be independent adults. So, when things go awry at universities, colleges—the supposed safe havens—can expect to get sued. Though no lawsuits have been filed yet, April’s Virginia Tech shooting could prompt the parents of victims to […]
local food issues take center stage
Along with peas and leafy greens, local-food talk is in bloom this early May. A mass mailing by the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC), plus a pair of events connected to UVA’s Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, are attempting to jump-start local buzz about how food is produced, distributed and eaten around Charlottesville. “A number […]
JPJ to stormwater: Cleanse thyself!
Observatory Hill is the high water point of the UVA campus. Only a few miles away, the new John Paul Jones Arena sits over the low water point, the gully that separates Emmet Street
The fortress of inexhaustible superstars
Mystified by the selection of author John Grisham and Dave Matthews Band violinist Boyd Tinsley as the commencement and valedictory speakers for UVA’s graduating class of 2007, C-VILLE went about brainstorming the selection process. While not precisely steeped in “fact” or “reality,” this was by far our most entertaining conclusion. Enjoy. Dusk had fallen like […]
Cigarette Tax passes without a huff
Mayor David Brown looked around at the thin crowd at May 7’s City Council meeting and asked if there were any speakers for a public comment session on the cigarette tax. The few remaining audience members looked around at each other, likely trying to figure out which people were secretly tobacco users, cursing the progressive […]
When hypothetical disaster strikes
To most of Charlottesville, last Thursday may have seemed like a beautiful, sunny day. But inside UVA’s Zehmer Hall, it was like something out of a Jerry Bruckheimer movie: Dams were stressed to the bursting point. Bridges were washed out. Six-foot-deep puddles dotted the soaked landscape. And then there was the propane tanker explosion. It […]
Region Ten opens crisis center
People in suits, sundresses and heels are milling around three tables laden with food—salsa, chips, doughy cookies, veggies. The setting resembles someone’s vacation condo—warm brown walls, wood floors, eclectic upholstery. A copy of The Well Adult sits on the coffee table; tribal-sounding music plays on a boom-box in the background. A front desk is at […]
Hume, Lithwick join TJ Center’s board
A national government watchdog with its home here in Charlottesville is getting two more big names for its Board of Trustees. Brit Hume and Dahlia Lithwick have joined the Board for the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, the TJ Center announced May 15. The Thomas Jefferson Center for Free Expression doesn’t […]
Citizen presses for NGIC info
A little over a year ago, the Board of Supervisors voted 5-1 to redraw the boundary lines of the growth area off of Route 29N for developer Wendell Wood, in exchange for him selling