250 interchange stalls in city council

Engineers who may have left July 27’s 250 Bypass Interchange Steering Committee meeting feeling optimistic were in for a brutal dose of reality on August 7, when City Council got a look-see at the intersection’s five potential design alternatives.    “It’s an awful lot coming awful fast,” Council member Kevin Lynch said. “Maybe we are pushing […]

Is this man killing democracy?

Jonathan Morris wants to make something clear. “At no time did we ever say that Jon Stewart is poisoning democracy,” says the political science professor, though you wouldn’t have known it from this summer’s ample media coverage of “The Daily Show Effect,” an article Morris wrote with his East Carolina University colleague Jody Baumgartner…

Speaker addresses “restorative justice” in schools

In light of several behavior issues last year, the Charlottesville school system has been searching high and low for disciplinary solutions. A fixation on “restorative practices” further manifested itself July 31, when high school Principal Joseph Roy spoke to an audience of more than 100 teachers, administrators and citizens about how restorative practices work in […]

Lake Anna plants set for public input

Two years ago this month, President Bush signed an energy bill that provided for millions in incentives to build new nuclear plants. Richmond-based Dominion Energy responded almost immediately, proposing two new reactors on Lake Anna in Louisa County, 30 miles from Charlottesville, to add to the two already stationed at the north end of the […]

Jeffersonian liberal hits local radio

Pissed off about how the government is handling the issues? Want to spout off on stem cells, gay rights, The PATRIOT Act, Iraq? If you’re of the mind that even a little Limbaugh is too much, local talk radio now offers broadcasts from the other side of the spectrum. National progressive radio host and self-described […]

Train in vain

Dear Lyna: Ace must agree: Nothing is worse than being kept up by noise on hot summer nights like these… unless, of course, you’re the one causing that noise. (Ace is looking at you, Advice Goddess, you salty minx!)

We’re No. 1! How do we keep it that way?

There is an argument circulating in my household, put forward by one of my college student sons, that the worst thing that ever happened to Charlottesville was being rated the No. 1 city in America—resulting in people from California with money to burn moving here, paying ridiculous prices for real estate and clogging our streets […]