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Last week UVA entered the ACC baseball tournament ranked No. 5 in the nation, capping UVA\’s best season in years. UVA finished the regular season with a 46-11 record (21-9 in the ACC) and the team hopes to appear in the College World Series to be held next month in Omaha.
Observers credit UVA\’s ascendency to head coach Brian O\’Connor, who inherited a mediocre team with a 29-25 record when he took over in 2004.

Despite controversy heading into last Saturday’s Democratic nominating convention for the Fifth District that includes Charlottesville, as expected Nelson County farmer Al Weed won the honor of again challenging Republican incumbent Virgil Goode for his congressional seat.
Earlier this spring, each locality in the Fifth District held a caucus, during which party faithful elected delegates to represent them in a primary. After the caucuses, Weed emerged with the most delegates. However, the race was contested up to the end because Weed’s opponent, Bern Ewert, kept his hopes alive by challenging delegates to renege on their pledge and switch their votes from Weed to Ewert.

Do you get mad when you find a $25 parking ticket stuck under your windshield wiper? Then imagine CBS\’ reaction on March 15 when the Federal Communications Commission fined it a record $3.6 million for airing “indecent” material in an episode of “Without a Trace.” The network, along with Fox (which was also penalized for a separate incident), fired back by filing suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

June will mark the final month on City Council for Blake Caravati, Charlottesville\’s premier rhetorician. For the past eight years, Caravati has baffled supporters and opponents alike with more non sequitur folkisms than H. Ross Perot.

Six months ago, in our “2006 Development Forecast,” C-VILLE reported not on how Charlottesville and Albemarle have already changed, but on how our home was going to change. Hours spent adding up rows and rows of numbers from the City and County’s planning offices yielded startling totals: a potential for 18,725 new residential units and 6,235,451 more square feet of commercial space on the way in the next decade or so.

In the second season premiere of “My Life on the D-List” (Tuesday, June 6, 9pm, Bravo), comedienne Kathy Griffin, fresh from playing the Paramount, spends a substantial amount of time tooling around Charlottesville—and the resulting footage is not pretty (just take a glance at the adjoining sidebar, and recoil at our rube-itude).