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 […]
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 […]
Already six years in the making, Albemarle Place jumped one of only a few remaining hurdles on the path to becoming a 65-acre assortment of 700 residential units and roughly 40 new stores, along with a stadium-seating movie theater, a hotel and a relocated Whole Foods.
Get your soapboxes ready. Here are your chances to opine on development matters during the coming weeks. Albemarle Planning Commission meets to discuss early drafts of the Pantops Master Plan. August 22. County Office Building.Route 250 West Task Force holds a discussion on projects. August 23. County Office Building. Albemarle Board of Supervisors and area […]
The future site for North Pointe, a mixed-use development planned for Route 29N, just north of Profitt Road, seems less like a “places we’ll lose” and more like a place we’ve already lost. The now wooded land would be yet another link in a chain of developments—Forest Lakes South, Hollymead, Forest Lakes—that run along the […]
An Albemarle teen\’s appeal to circuit court proved fruitful on Wednesday, August 16, when a jury acquitted him of threatening to blow up two Albemarle high schools on the seventh anniversary of the Columbine shootings.
Louis Antonio Bryant was sentenced to life in prison during an August 18 hearing in U.S. District Court, following last-minute arguments by his attorney Jonathan Katz trying to convince the judge that the jury verdict was flawed. Judge Norman K. Moon, however, upheld the verdict and imposed the mandatory sentence of life in prison—with no […]
It may come as a surprise, but lazily drifting down a secluded section of the James River on an inner tube with a few buddies and a six-pack is considered drinking in public, and it’s illegal. Drinking on the river caught up to five teens Sunday, August 13, when a 16-year-old boy fell on Rock […]