Charlottesville City officials are considering a new tax to fund an expensive repair to the deteriorating stormwater drainage system. Currently, city management of the stormwater drainage system is funded from the general budget to the tune of $915,000 annually. The proposed changes recommended to City Council at the September 17 meeting would push that cost […]
In recent months, the Charlottesville City Council has vigorously debated whether to spend the money it would take to renovate two area swimming pools, one of which the Piedmont Area YMCA uses, or contribute resources to build a new YMCA within the city. The Council eventually agreed to explore the latter course. With no existing […]
Update, October 24, 2007: Keep up-to-date on the "money race:" On the Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP) website you can get contribution profiles on all the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors candidates. These reports are updated as information is available, based upon the required periodic disclosures of campaign finances with the voter registrar’s office in […]
Harvest Number of Mexican pickers hired at harvest time: 4 Average each is paid per eight-hour day: $102 Amount of grapes picked on a normal day: 3 tons Total harvest cost: $3,000 In addition to these costs, in 2005 the Pucketts purchased five tons of grapes for an additional cost of $9,000. The Winery Purchase […]
A few hours before the Satellite Ballroom’s 8pm door time, and the space is quiet.
As both Democrats and Republicans cast about last week for an Iraq policy that was both acceptable to their respective bases and capable of passage, political courage, if not competence, was in short supply for both parties.
Anything cookin’ with Chris Daughtry these days? —Miss N. Idol Miss: First, Ace will assume you mean Daughtry, the band created by Fluvanna County product and ex-"American Idol" contestant Chris Daughtry, and not simply Daughtry himself, though answering this question in reference to one would pretty much clear up the question of the whereabouts of […]
He's baaaack! After briefly flirting with a presidential run (before telling his shocked supporters "I want to have a real life," and mysteriously dropping out of the race), former Governor…
When the white-haired usher at the Paramount shines her flashlight on the ticket, she says, “The show tonight will start at 8:30pm, not 8pm.”
music With all the excitement surrounding the return of Bob Dylan to Charlottesville, it’s easy to forget that his foundation—straight-ahead folk music—has been largely banished to the shadows. New folk singer-songwriters, awash not in Dylan’s resplendent history, must scrape together bits of acclaim here and there. Lord, they might as well be poets or intellectual […]