Albemarle Place is all but a done deal—a deal that in the next several years will bring 700 residential units, a new hotel, roughly 40 shops and a giant movie theater to Route 29, just north of Hydraulic Road. What does all this new development mean for the congestion triangle at Route 250, Route 29, […]
Though a recent spate of high density projects in the Fifeville neighborhood have run into serious snafus, in large part because of neighborhood dissent, the local chapter of the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity is looking to add 23 units to the neighborhood. Joining with private developers, Habitat will appear September 13 before the City Planning […]
The FDA last month approved emergency contraceptive Plan B for over-the-counter use, and University of Virginia Student Health Center will sell the drug that way as soon as the product is repackaged. Student health officials and local Planned Parenthood workers are bracing for the political fallout of the drug becoming more available. “Certainly we are […]
The University of Virginia Foundation, which manages University financial and real estate holdings, would like to double the size of the Fontaine Research Park.
Working out of the Center for Biomedical Ethics, Ann Mills and Patty Tereskerz research ethics and policy in health care. They’re not, as Mills says, “basic scientists.” Rather, they examine how policies and legislation concerning research—specifically biomedical research—affect scientific pursuits. In July they published an article in Nature Biotechnology that questions whether recent suggestions from […]
On September 9, the rest of the UVA football team will be kicking off their first home game of the season against Wyoming. Former wide receiver Theirrien “Bud” Davis, however, will be sitting in jail, at the beginning of a three-month sentence earned for stealing from the UVA bookstore.
In more news from the teen bombing case that won’t quit, Albemarle County Judge Paul M. Peatross unsealed portions of records about the 16-year-old convicted of threatening to bomb two Albemarle schools. And another boy, now 17, who was pegged as the plot’s ringleader, pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges Thursday, August 31, in Albemarle Circuit […]
The City and County police forces differ in standards for cops. For example, the Albemarle police force has more stringent academic requirements, while the City has stricter physical fitness standards. But the philosophies behind the standards are more complex than mere brains versus brawn. According to City Police Chief Timothy J. Longo, education requirements for […]
Though car crashes involving teens and alcohol tend to garner outsized public attention, they’re still relatively rare. Statewide numbers from the Department of Motor Vehicles show DUI-related deaths are actually down, especially for teens. Statewide, teen deaths in alcohol-related crashes declined about 24 percent, to 32 deaths from 42 in 2004. Alcohol-related accidents for all […]
Local governments are struggling to find solutions to the affordable housing problem. So, to get a better sense of just what the problem is and what can be done about it,