On the last night of November, a smattering of locals gathered in the Scottsville Town Council Chambers to discuss a messy topic: water quality problems in the Hardware and North Fork Hardware Rivers. Set in between Charlottesville and Scottsville, the rivers flow into the James and are on the State’s impaired waters list for fecal […]
On the last night of November, a smattering of locals gathered in the Scottsville Town Council Chambers to discuss a messy topic: water quality problems in the Hardware and North Fork Hardware Rivers. Set in between Charlottesville and Scottsville, the rivers flow into the James and are on the State’s impaired waters list for fecal […]
At 69.5 acres, the Granger Property is the last major undeveloped tract of land in the southern Albemarle growth area surrounding UVA, officially known as Area B. On Tuesday night, the Albemarle County Planning Commission wanted to know why.
The inexorable march to fill all empty city lots continues at the southern edge of Belmont. Dozers are grading in preparation for 29 residential units in the Carter’s View development—single-family detached housing with three-four bedrooms. Southern Development Homes, which bought the completed subdivision plan from Legend Development, expects it to be complete by the end […]
What happens when you put government officials in the position of students? The scene begins to resemble a high school classroom, with the skeptical kids asking deflating questions and the teacher's pets answering them.
Blog bounty Dear Ace: Recently, I was trudging through the so-called blogosphere and decided to do a search for “Charlottesville” on Blogger.com. I was astounded tosee over 60,000 results! Why so many Charlottesville blogs?—Ana Z. Webb Dear Ana: Yes, the hippest media buzzword of 2004 has swept our fair city. Ace is not terribly fond […]
Decades after the fall of state-sanctioned segregation and Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” flagship state schools like UVA are getting richer and whiter. Such is the conclusion of a new report, “Engines of Inequality,” released by the Education Trust last week. Looking solely at public flagship schools from each state, the report finds decreased access […]
When UVA’s Darden School of Business announced last year that it would offer an M.B.A. for Executives programâan opportunity for those already in the business world to earn a degree in 22 monthsâit was putting its lofty reputation on the line. In an already saturated marketplace of schools with similar programs, UVA was getting an acknowledged late start.
If you’re a UVA student, you probably had a nice nine-day vacation last week (well, unless you visited family). But for the workers at the University’s facilities operations department, when the students were away, there was simply no time to play. “When the students are here, it’s going 24-7 most of the time. During the […]
Students who don’t want a month off from school can "party on" during the January term by studying the philosophy behind this "excellent adventure." Some UVA students looking for January term courses are content to bone up on Joyce and Beckett in Dublin or hang out with elementary school students in Ghana. But what about […]
When Frederick Gray awoke beside his girlfriend in the wee hours of May 15, 1997, he was disturbed, distraught and saying things she had never heard him say before. Though Gray was not on drugs and had no history of mental illness, he was roving around the apartment, talking crazy, muttering about harming her or […]