Under pressure from immigrants rights groups including the Charlottesville-based Legal Aid Justice Center, the Internet and cable provider Verizon Communications announced yesterday that it might bar certain of its contractors from work if it finds they withheld pay from immigrant laborers who dug trenches for the company’s fiber optic cables in the Washington, D.C. area.
Under pressure from immigrants rights groups including the Charlottesville-based Legal Aid Justice Center, the Internet and cable provider Verizon Communications announced yesterday that it might bar certain of its contractors from work if it finds they withheld pay from immigrant laborers who dug trenches for the company’s fiber optic cables in the Washington, D.C. area.
The planet just is. And so are we. For a little while. Charlottesville remembers George Carlin.
I would make some sort of clever, lyric-based pun here if I knew any of his songs.
UVA sports blogs are alive with the news of a new hire for play-by-play announcer. His name is Dave Koehn and he comes from the University of Vermont
Though some local Hillary Clinton supporters [cough, John Grisham, cough] have yet to throw their weight behind Barack Obama, David Slutzky came out to a state Democratic joint canvassing kick-off event June 21 for Obama, Mark Warner and Tom Perriello
Dredging of the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir is coming closer to a reality, one board meeting at a time. And this afternoon, the one that counts the most, the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority, voted unanimously to have staff put together a request for proposals
Jesse Gottschalk, a rising senior at Swarthmore who’s from Charlottesville, hadn’t planned on working for a campaign this summer. He was the president of his school’s Barack Obama campaign and came away wanting to learn more this summer than what he thought a political race could teach him
While most people interviewed today by the Washington Post’s Tim Craig about next week’s special Assembly session to solve Virginia’s out-of-control transportation problem predict there will be a whole lotta nothing go on, at least one lobbyist is trying to find the upside.