Students to vote on single sanction
Spring elections are coming up for UVA students and one hot topic on the ballot promises to be “single sanction.” Hoos Against Single Sanction has a nonbinding resolution on the […]
No new living wage in County
Charged with the lofty task of establishing a “living wage” for the poorest of County employees, the Board of Supervisors (www.albemarle.org) met with the County School Board (www.K12.albemarle.org/board) February 14 […]
City public housing faces huge cuts
Correction appended A few months ago, the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority (CRHA) (www.charlottesville.org) emerged from “troubled” status. But December 28, it found out its budget for 376 units of […]
Local Moms say “yes” to HPV Vaccine
“The parents that I\’ve spoken to about it are all enthusiastic,” says Lisa Goff, a Charlottesville mother of two daughters who are in sixth and ninth grades. “We\’re going to do it,” whether it\’s mandated or not, she says.
Sounds of Shakespeare
music Music was a fashionable accomplishment of Elizabethan gentlemen, but Shakespeare had a special sensitivity to it, to judge by the frequent and detailed musical references in his plays. Fittingly, […]
Class consciousness
Rose Hill and Lindsay Michie Eades move plastic tables and chairs into position in a fluorescent lit, cinderblock room deep inside the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail. Outside, past numerous green […]
Corrections from previous issue
Due to a reporting error, a January 30 story on County assessments ["County assessments keep soaring"] failed to put assessment increases in their temporal context: Assessment on a house in […]
I turn my camera on
Oh, what hath “Macaca” wrought? I mean, reallyâno matter how you feel about the gaffe-induced toppling of George “boot-in-mouth” Allen, I think we can now safely say that the introduction of the “Webb cam”
In living color
Dear Ace: What’s with there only being one High Definition TV channel in Charlottesville? I’ve got this kick-ass TV, and I don’t have anything to watch on it!—Cuckoo Channel Cuckoo: […]
Drawing themselves out
Shows at a place like McGuffey Art Center are usually about refinement. The current oneâa collection of works by inmates at the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jailâspeaks more to release.