By some definitions, virtually everything you pick up on the black market could fall under the “entertainment” umbrella—isn’t that what those lines of coke and side-alley blowjobs are about? To narrow the frame, however, we let those mainstays of human misbehavior live on their own and instead focused on electronics and events, from the bootlegs […]
Robin Williams, no stranger to nose candy, once said, “Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you’re making too much money.” Well, “there’s a lot of money in this town,” an inmate at our local jail told me. Now in his early 30s, he’s been selling coke in Charlottesville since he was 14. It turns […]
More than a month after the city announced it would spend nearly $1 million on two new ambulances and staff for its own emergency-rescue system, city officials are saying the money may instead
Supervisor Dennis Rooker had no problem getting his fellow supervisors to approve a 35 percent increase in the county’s automobile decals, raising them to $38.50 from $28.50. But at least three of them couldn’t stomach a real estate tax rate of 69 cents per $100 of assessed value. Pressure was on at the April 11 […]
“Holly [Edwards] became one of my teachers,” said retiring City Councilor Kendra Hamilton at a press conference April 12 announcing the candidacy of Holly Edwards for City Council. Hamilton addressed a crowd of 30 gathered in a multipurpose room in the public housing high-rise Crescent Halls. “She taught me what a privileged little buppie I […]
As Kevin Alfred Strom waited in U.S. District Court, he glanced over his shoulder around the courtroom—a meek smile girding his face—and nodded to whomever he made eye contact with. His demeanor
This month sees a changing of the guard for Region Ten, a local government agency providing mental health, mental retardation and substance abuse services to Charlottesville and its five area counties. Robert L. Johnson takes over as executive director, having worked extensively with drug treatment programs in Richmond and Washington, D.C. His experience should serve […]
The man responsible for a decades-old Culpeper rape and murder pleaded guilty April 11, a local prosecutor announced. Kenneth Maurice Tinsley struck a plea deal that says he raped 19-year-old Rebecca Lynn Williams, and acknowledges there’s enough evidence to also convict him in her stabbing death. The case caused an innocent man—Earl Washington, Jr.—to spend […]
James King may be blind, but he’s painfully aware of the development encroaching all around him. Residents of Jefferson Park Circle in Charlottesville for 20 years, King and his wife, Peggy, get a privileged view of both city and county construction. “This is an attack like we’ve never had before,” says Mr. King, a veteran […]
Two extreme storylines competed in the Board of Supervisor’s decision on the fate of the request from the Soccer Organization of Charlottesville Albemarle (SOCA) to build a $4.5 million soccer facility on 10 acres in northern Albemarle, adding to existing fields off Polo Grounds Road. If allowed: The insatiable appetite of County Growth will gobble […]