First quarter housing market down 17 PERCENT
Lord! The analogies people toss around when it comes to the housing market.
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First quarter housing market down 17 PERCENT
Lack of big projects cited in slowdown from 2005
Lord! The analogies people toss around when it comes to the housing market.
15-year-old sentenced to juvenile prison
The 15-year-old Albemarle High School student convicted of plotting, with three other teens, to blow up two Albemarle high schools, was sentenced to juvenile detention March 5. The case has been closed to the public and little specific information has been released about the prosecution’s case against the teens. At the 15-year-old’s sentencing hearing, however, some of the evidence finally came to light.
Board gives go-ahead for south lawn
Earlier this month the Board of Visitors approved plans for the $105 million South Lawn project, one the most ambitious building projects in UVA’s recent history.
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Step Lively
Two years after its inception, Miami City Ballet pulled a rabbit out of a hat. The chief dance critic of The New York Times heralded the companyâs âhigh standard of dancing,â calling it a âmind-boggling surprise.â No exaggeration: This would be like winning The Masterâs on your first tour as a golf pro or hitting the game-winning home run during your rookie season in the majors.
Casteen touts diversity
In his “State of the University” speech on Friday, April 21, President John Casteen said the Living Wage campaign is “revolutionary” and “deserves to be understood and debated.” Circulated e-mails gave Living Wage activists strict orders not to disrupt Casteen’s speech, so about 40 or so activists clad themselves in “living wage” banners and covered their mouths with “$10.72” gags.
The 2006 Muzzle Awards
“Are you liberal or conservative?” This question seems to matter a great deal to people these days. Political affiliation colors our thinking on everything from global politics to family life—so much so that it seems every story has only two sides: left and right. Robert O’Neil, president of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection […]
Stamped out
Dear Ace: How do the Downtown parking stamps work? Why do some businesses readily stamp the ticket you get when you enter one of our garages or lots and some do not? What gives? —Country Mouse in the City Dear Mouse: Firstly, I must commend you on learning to drive a car, what with your […]
Roger Burchett wants to change your channel
Few people get to work earlier than Roger Burchett. Bo Sykes and Whitney Holmes do, but as early-morning anchors of the live broadcast from the Charlottesville Newsplex, they have good reason to haul their tails to work by 2:00 in the morning. But Burchett, general manager of the operation that Gray Television established 18 months […]