Last week, Charlottesville celebrated its latest accolade as a city among the “Distinctive Dozen,” a title bestowed by the nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation. With the award, we join the august company of other “distinctive” towns like Ellensburg, Washington, and West Hollywood, California. “I’m particularly pleased,” said Mayor David Brown, “because if I were […]
Last week, Charlottesville celebrated its latest accolade as a city among the “Distinctive Dozen,” a title bestowed by the nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation. With the award, we join the august company of other “distinctive” towns like Ellensburg, Washington, and West Hollywood, California. “I’m particularly pleased,” said Mayor David Brown, “because if I were […]
Jim Bacon’s incisive ability to cut through Virginia’s transportation issues—what’s up with our clogging roads and what should be done about it—has earned him and his blog Bacon’s Rebellion a number of fans in and out of his home in Richmond. On March 6, Bacon addressed “Why Virginia Transportation Policy is Running off the Rails,” […]
At UVA, Sara Larquier was a scholarship softball player from California, a politics major and your typical busy student, stuck with other Wahoos in the bubble of the Corner and Grounds.
Business undergrads are walking with some extra swagger this week thanks to news from BusinessWeek that the McIntire School of Commerce is ranked No. 2 nationally. BusinessWeek magazine ranked UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce second among the nation’s undergraduate business programs. Not bad, given that the top-ranked program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School […]
The UVA student body has opted to save “single sanction,” referring to the only punishment for honor code violations: permanent expulsion. Critics of the system got a referendum on the ballot for spring elections, asking whether single sanction should be abolished in favor of tiered consequences. Though the resolution would be nonbinding, it would have […]
Jodi Meyers Year: Third Majors: Philosophy & mathematics Hometown: Fort Thomas, Kentucky What’s in your backpack? Nail clippers, tissues, Eclipse gum, Chapstick, sheet music for “Redline Tango,” applications for teaching positions in Ohio, umbrella, Nalgene water bottle, broken 256-Mb flash drive, multicolor book tabs, Elements of Modern Algebra & Complex Variables textbook.
Former Mayor Maurice Cox gives a tour of the 10th and Page neighborhood to a group of leaders from Moss Point, Mississippi, a town of 16,000 that was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Whatever mistakes might be made by the county in rezoning for Biscuit Run, they at least want to avoid the mistakes of Hollymead—where huge swaths of green land were made red, causing erosion and sediment-control issues for neighbors and watersheds; where the commercial property was built long before residential, undercutting the principles of the county’s […]
Dear Ace: I was walking on the Downtown Mall the other day and I saw a guy in stocks in front of Zocalo. What’s the deal?âThor Churr
A week after their annual Valentine’s Day show, Devon Sproule and Paul Curreri sit side-by-side at Café Cubano, looking mostly at each other while they speak with me about