It was a warm day Friday, April 7, and Leon Mann was doing some yard work at his home in the Ashcroft subdivision east of Pantops, when he got a phone call. Removing his shoes to step inside his house, Mann picked up the phone and heard his next-door-neighbor’s frantic voice on the other end. […]
It was a warm day Friday, April 7, and Leon Mann was doing some yard work at his home in the Ashcroft subdivision east of Pantops, when he got a phone call. Removing his shoes to step inside his house, Mann picked up the phone and heard his next-door-neighbor’s frantic voice on the other end. […]
After Lorenzo Townes served 32 years for a string of sexual offenses, including the rape of a 10-year-old girl, he spent two years at a treatment center, then appealed and was granted his release. Four months later, he was arrested for raping a 12-year-old girl, according to The Washington Post. Many states are grappling with […]
Is it just us, or do the holidays make everyone just a bit desperate? Whether it’s accepting a New Year’s date with the guy named Wilbur from your meditation class or breaking down in tears when the lady in front of you buys the last Jingle Beanie, it’s amazing how the season of joy can […]
The resignation of Arts & Sciences Dean Ed Ayers after five years in UVA’s administration (www.virginia.edu) prompts the question—how long do University top dogs stay, and when is it time to roll over? You can’t touch this: John Casteen outpaces other elite university presidents by almost 3 to 1. If administrators at comparable universities are […]
City residents have been upset from time to time by UVA’s massive real estate projects. Things like 1,200-car parking garages come to mind. So how will this news from City Council (www.charlottesville.org) last week sit with them: The UVA Foundation
In September, a hospital reported a patient in Minnesota had gotten a rare bacterial infection from a knee surgery that used a tendon from a donor cadaver. The Centers for Disease Control launched an investigation of thousands of tissues used in transplant surgeries supplied by Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF), the tissue bank that sold the […]
A lifelong Republican, Joel White wandered into the Starr Hill Gallery on Tuesday evening, December 5. Was he “Dem,” or “Dem Curious”? Neither, exactly, judging from his brief voting record (he sat out the November election and voted red two times before), but the 25-year-old transplant from Columbus, Ohio, was certain that the monthly meeting […]
When the City reported earlier this month it had a surplus of $9.9 million, people sure were troubled at the idea of all that money sitting around somewhere. “Well, then, why are my real estate taxes so damn high?” and “I sure could think of a few things to do with $9.9 million!” were common refrains.
Virginia’s longstanding man in the U.S. Senate, John Warner, had some major media coverage last week. As critic of “stay-the-course” and the outgoing chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Warner got a turn in the spotlight when the Hamilton-Baker Iraq Study Group report was released to his committee. Because he marshaled support for Rumsfeld […]
Yeah, yeah. We know. It’s the holiday season, and you’re busy shopping and wrapping presents and volunteering at churches and handing out candy canes at nursing homes and/or defending your contrarian views on public Nativity displays at awkward work parties. In other words, Santa Claus is comin’ to town, and you ain’t got no time […]