“I would assume you’ve done some projections of expected employment over the next five to 10 years,” said County Supervisor Dennis Rooker towards the end of the quarterly three party meeting between representatives from the City, the County and UVA on February 15. The answer: We’re working on it. But UVA officials didn’t quantify anything. […]
“I would assume you’ve done some projections of expected employment over the next five to 10 years,” said County Supervisor Dennis Rooker towards the end of the quarterly three party meeting between representatives from the City, the County and UVA on February 15. The answer: We’re working on it. But UVA officials didn’t quantify anything. […]
Approximately a year and a half ago, Michelle King was in the lab testing how cells expressing the protein tau react to different compounds. “I wanted to watch them live while I added different things to the culture to see if something happened,”
Spring elections are coming up for UVA students and one hot topic on the ballot promises to be “single sanction.” Hoos Against Single Sanction has a nonbinding resolution on the ballot that asks if students want to establish a multi-tier punishment for honor-system violations. If a majority vote in favor, UVA’s Honor Committee (www.virginia.edu/honor) could […]
Charged with the lofty task of establishing a “living wage” for the poorest of County employees, the Board of Supervisors (www.albemarle.org) met with the County School Board (www.K12.albemarle.org/board) February 14 to review the findings of a joint board committee. Comprising two supervisors and two School Board members, the committee presented two options for an hourly […]
Correction appended A few months ago, the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority (CRHA) (www.charlottesville.org) emerged from “troubled” status. But December 28, it found out its budget for 376 units of public housing has been slashed by $220,000, thanks to nationwide cuts at the federal level. “It’s bad timing,” says Noah Schwartz, CRHA executive director. “We […]
“The parents that I\’ve spoken to about it are all enthusiastic,” says Lisa Goff, a Charlottesville mother of two daughters who are in sixth and ninth grades. “We\’re going to do it,” whether it\’s mandated or not, she says.
music Music was a fashionable accomplishment of Elizabethan gentlemen, but Shakespeare had a special sensitivity to it, to judge by the frequent and detailed musical references in his plays. Fittingly, his works have inspired more classical compositions than any literary source but the Bible. The Charlottesville and University Symphony sampled this vast repertoire at Cabell […]
Rose Hill and Lindsay Michie Eades move plastic tables and chairs into position in a fluorescent lit, cinderblock room deep inside the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail. Outside, past numerous green metal doors heavy enough to excise a finger, down labyrinthine halls that split randomly, comes the sound of voices and laughter, and the jingle of […]
Due to a reporting error, a January 30 story on County assessments ["County assessments keep soaring"] failed to put assessment increases in their temporal context: Assessment on a house in White Hall increased at a biennial rate of 41 percent in 2005, not an annual rate as implied. The same house increased at a biennial […]
Oh, what hath “Macaca” wrought? I mean, reallyâno matter how you feel about the gaffe-induced toppling of George “boot-in-mouth” Allen, I think we can now safely say that the introduction of the “Webb cam”