Previous coverage: 100 doorbells in 90 degreesVOP workers canvas neighborhoods, fighting predatory lending Back in 2004, Belinda Carter and her husband borrowed $600 from a payday lender. Their van, the couple’s only means of transportation, needed emergency repairs. Two years and nearly $2,000 later, she’d finally paid off the principal and its soaring interest. "You […]
On October 24, the House of Representatives passed the "Celebrating America’s Heritage Act," creating six new national heritage areas, one of which would be the Journey Through Hallowed Ground (JTHG), a 175-mile stretch that connects Monticello in Charlottesville to Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, and travels mostly along Route 15. Under the legislation, the JTHG partnership, a […]
In the end, the Charlottesville City Council moved the Piedmont Family YMCA proposal for a $12 million facility at McIntire Park one step closer…
William N. "Bill" Peterson, the man who added a twist to Charlottesville-area writer John Grisham's first foray into nonfiction…
At its upcoming November 13 meeting, the City Planning Commission is slated to weigh in on which street on the east end of the Downtown Mall is the proper place for a vehicular crossing, Fourth or Fifth street.
music Saturday night at Satellite Ballroom kicked off with local quintet Kings of Belmont. Having seen their name on flyers around town for a while, I had begun to imagine that they were some sort of messy, alcohol-fueled garage rock band. I was only partially wrong. Alcohol certainly factors into the Kings’ equation (in one […]
"I think that on a Friday afternoon on a beautiful autumn day in Virginia, it'd be pretty difficult to hold a crowd…
Bob McDonnell opposes the call by the The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports today that Virginia Attorney General American Bar Association (ABA) for a halt on executions.
In the early 1980s, Virginia Germino's 12-year-old daughter, unbeknownst to her parents, wrote a letter to the newspaper opposing the Meadowcreek Parkway (MCP).
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