Food fights
This summer, take a break from the drive-through and get out to the county to see tractors roving the land or a few bent backs—people picking vegetables from
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Local food, a glossary
CSA: Community Supported Agriculture, a model of food production in which consumers buy “shares” and sometimes help farmers work the land in exchange for a helping of fresh, locally grown vegetables orother goods. EAT Local: “Everyone At the Table,” a group of UVA professors, farmers, retailers and interested consumers, based in Charlottesville, that meets to […]
Looking into Baltimore, London cameras
It started small in Baltimore in 1996, just 16 black-and-white cameras bolted to light poles and buildings, staring straight down on a single spot, unblinking. But after a 2005 trip to London—a city 200,000-cameras strong—then-Baltimore mayor Martin O’Malley implemented City Watch. It’s a city-wide network of full-color closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras that pan, zoom, […]
Death penalty protesters sentenced
Local Brian Buckley and seven others were sentenced in D.C. Superior Court June 28 on charges that stemmed from a death penalty protest on the steps of the Supreme Court building. The activists faced charges of parading and displaying a banner on Supreme Court grounds that read “STOP EXECUTIONS” on January 17 while protesting the […]
Fighting for rights ain’t easy
There are lawyers who will take on the establishment at any price, suing institutions like UVA or the police for little payoff aside from the greater good. Neal L. Walters is not that lawyer. Though Walters has played the yin to bulldog attorney Debbie Wyatt’s yang on a number of civil rights cases over the […]
How to survive a home invasion
In early June, a woman was home with her son at her apartment in the county when two men with a gun came looking for her boyfriend. They forced their way in, assaulted her, tied her up along with her son, and put them in the bathtub while they robbed the place. It’s the kind […]
Scientific focus for new dean
Two days after former dean of Arts & Sciences Ed Ayers officially took over as president of the University of Richmond on July 1, UVA named Karen Ryan interim dean. Ryan, a Slavic languages and literatures professor, was associate dean for the arts, humanities and social sciences. She temporarily takes the helm as UVA is, […]
Study: UVA $1.1 billion engine
UVA is often called the engine that drives Charlottesville, or the 800-pound gorilla in the room, depending on who’s talking and whether they think UVA’s doing its fair share. Not content with such generalizations, University President John Casteen commissioned a Weldon Cooper Center study to quantify the economic impact on both the local area and […]
With Starr Hill out, will W. Main shine?
As of June 7, Starr Hill is officially defunct after eight years in business, and the word from owner Coran Capshaw’s Red Light Management is that the W. Main Street building’s next commercial reincarnation is still undecided.
Requiem for a parking lot
The expanse of pavement on Jefferson Park Avenue, known as the “JPA Lot” or B1 lot, currently encased in barricades and temporary fencing, through which backhoes dig, was once a thing of beauty. Or, if not a thing of beauty, a thing of lovely utility. During the week, the 247-space lot across from Cabell Hall […]