Charlottesville’s experiment with proportional ranked choice voting is swiftly approaching, with the Democratic primary for City Council set for June 17. The new (to Charlottesville at least) voting system was adopted on a trial basis in a 4-1 split vote by City Council on September 3, 2024. In the months leading up to the primary, […]
Charlottesville’s experiment with proportional ranked choice voting is swiftly approaching, with the Democratic primary for City Council set for June 17. The new (to Charlottesville at least) voting system was adopted on a trial basis in a 4-1 split vote by City Council on September 3, 2024. In the months leading up to the primary, […]
The 2020 Virginia Clean Economy Act requires Dominion Energy to generate all of its power from renewable sources by 2045—but the company began looking at ways to add solar generation to its mix years earlier. Efforts to use some of the real estate above the now-closed Ivy Landfill have been underway since 2017, with multiple […]
Virginia Housing, a state agency, has published a list of applications from developers seeking tax credits to cover the cost of building apartments guaranteed to be rented to people with lower incomes than the area median. The Internal Revenue Service allots a limited number of federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits for each state, and Virginia […]
On March 21, the University of Virginia released the long-promised external reviews of the November 13, 2022, shooting that killed students Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis, Jr., and D’Sean Perry. The findings of the two reports provide limited insight into the murder of the three UVA football players and Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr., the gunman. Rather […]
The University of Virginia men’s basketball team welcomed Ryan Odom, its new head coach, to John Paul Jones Arena on March 24. Odom is no stranger to Charlottesville or UVA basketball, having served as a ball boy for the Cavaliers during his father’s time as assistant coach from 1982 to 1989. He credits his dad, […]
University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III, the “father of the modern university,” died March 18 following a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 81. Casteen served as UVA president from 1990 through 2010. Over that 20-year period, he built a reputation for expanding educational access and promoting UVA’s global reach. Amidst state […]
A plan to build a 50-unit mobile home park on a portion of 50 acres in southern Albemarle County is dead after the Board of Supervisors deadlocked 3-3 on rezoning. They did so after a three-hour discussion and a public hearing during which housing advocates urged the county to move past decades of rural area […]
Almost two weeks after the University of Virginia Board of Visitors issued a resolution dissolving the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, there are more questions than answers about what comes next—even for community partners. The Center for Community Partnerships at UVA was created as part of the university’s effort to be a “good neighbor” […]
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors is in the midst of budget season, with a draft budget of $642,386,163. To balance the budget for fiscal year 2026, the county has proposed increases to its real property and personal property taxes. Under the current FY26 budget, the real property tax (also known as the real estate […]
The University of Virginia men’s basketball team will be under new leadership next season, with the athletics department opting not to retain interim Head Coach Ron Sanchez, as announced March 12. Sanchez was thrust into the job on October 15, when longtime head coach Tony Bennett retired months after signing a contract extension. Sanchez led […]