Foundation has built 120 shelters for Katrina victims —with more on the wayEven before Hurricane Katrina made landfall last August, Pearlington, Mississippi, was a hurting town. Located 45 miles northeast of New Orleans, the value of the towns’ aging homes was well below the state average. Its elevation—8′ above sea level—guaranteed that a pounding 28′ […]
Foundation has built 120 shelters for Katrina victims —with more on the wayEven before Hurricane Katrina made landfall last August, Pearlington, Mississippi, was a hurting town. Located 45 miles northeast of New Orleans, the value of the towns’ aging homes was well below the state average. Its elevation—8′ above sea level—guaranteed that a pounding 28′ […]
The ghosts of Albemarle County’s agricultural and industrial past haunt the Crozet headquarters of Musictoday. The company is housed in the ConAgra building, a hulking structure built in 1953 to house the packaging operations of Morton’s Frozen Foods.
Local State legislators met with County officials last week, preparing for the upcoming legislative session (the last one before the November election). Sen. Creigh Deeds, Sen. Emmett Hanger, Del. Robert Bell, Del. David Toscano, and Del. Steven Landes heard the comments of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors and School Board members at afternoon sessions […]
Independent Senate candidate Gail “For Rail” Parker’s got a steady platform to build rail across Virginia, which she says will reduce emissions, save lives and even fix Iraq (less oil, more peace in the Middle East). Recently, C-VILLE tread the shaky ground on and off the platform of this third-party candidate.—Meg McEvoy C-VILLE: How much […]
Last February, Mitchell Wade, the former head of defense contractor MZM, pleaded guilty to paying California Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham more than $1 million in bribes in exchange for government contracts. Cunningham is currently serving eight years in prison for his part in the scandal and on Monday, August 21, Wade appeared in Federal Court […]
UVA President John Casteen III welcomed the incoming class on Sunday, August 21. Among them, 180 students are transfers from Virginia’s community colleges, the highest number yet.
“We welcome you in a special way, because we have valued the collaboration of that system from its very beginning,” Casteen said.
Who does State Climatologist (and global warming doubter) Patrick Michaels belong to: the Governor or UVA? According to Governor Tim Kaine, he’s all yours, Charlottesville.For years, UVA professor Patrick Michaels’ skepticism toward human-related global warming was credited in media reports to the “Virginia State Climatologist”—which, in all fairness, is his official title. But as Michaels […]
It can’t be denied: Good ol’ TJ’s reputation has taken more than a few hits over the past decade. From the 1998 DNA test which indicated that Mr. Jefferson had almost certainly fathered a child with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, to the recent Alexander Hamilton biography by Ron Chernow that depicts America’s third […]
In a great find by The Cavalier Daily, an editorial Friday, August 25 noted former Governor Mark Warner’s March 2005 bill naming the Virginia Big-Eared Bat as the state’s official nocturnal flying mammal. In an amazing feat of parallelism, the editorial pointed out the irony that we have a State Bat, yet no one seems […]
To increase the supply of area homes under $200,000, the Albemarle County Planning Commission considered, but deferred action on, changes to the zoning code that would provide extra incentives to by-right developers who include affordable housing. Though the County currently has a 15 percent affordable policy in place for projects needing special permits, current incentives […]