Last month, UVA launched a new home-page, its first website redesign since 2004. The site includes one feature uncommon to university websites: an “Especially For Kids” page aimed at the more diminutive Cavalier. “Want to learn more about UVA?!!” it implores. Try the “UVA Lingo” word scramble and find phrases like “Grounds,” “The Corner” and […]
In the most exciting academic standoff since the Noam Chomsky-Christopher Hitchens cage match of ’02 (Chomsky felled the sodden neo-con with a folding chair), residents of UVA’s
The March 27 discovery of several suspicious items—three cylindrical packages at Henley Middle School and one at Brownsville Elementary, as well as a written threat taped to the
Police have arrested three suspects in a March 2 shooting that seriously wounded a Charlottesville High School student. One suspect, Pee Wee Carmello Martinez, was apprehended in Bronx, New York, apparently fleeing police. His younger brother, a 17-year-old, has a violent history of crime in Charlottesville and is in custody. A 16-year-old is also in […]
After the death of 17-year-old Albemarle High School lacrosse player Nolan Jenkins, and the ticketing of dozens of teens for alcohol use, the Albemarle County School Board felt it needed to do something to curb underage drinking, especially by student athletes. This summer, the Board solidified policies that would allow schools to exert control over […]
More than two decades after Earl Washington Jr. went to prison for a rape and murder he didn’t commit, his lawyers say he’ll soon see compensation, in the form of $1.9 million from the state of Virginia. In 1984, Washington was convicted of the brutal rape and murder of Rebecca Lynn Williams, a 19-year-old Culpeper […]
Keith Drake, chairman of the Albemarle County Republican Party and leader of the “Truth in Taxation” campaign, says the awakening for him came when he received his property tax bi
Governor Tim Kaine had a busy beginning to the last week of March, as he unleashed a flurry of revisions to the bills presented to him by the state legislature only a few weeks prior. Although his amendments to the transportation bill have received the most focus, he also vetoed a wide range of bills, […]
“What’s NOT Working in Our Community?” proclaimed the handout for Saturday morning’s session hosted by the Charlottesville/Albemarle Commission on Children and Families. Maryfrances Porter, the Commission’s research and planning coordinator, encouraged the 10 or so residents in attendance at the County Office Building to air their grievances in order to help the city and county […]
What a remarkable day March 26 promised to be. A press release announcing the opening of the much-awaited bus transfer center popped into e-mail in-boxes across town like a bud blooming among thorns. The anticipation of years of planning, redesigning, overestimating and underestimating had finally given way to this fateful moment: The city was ready […]