This September, Charlottesville will become ground zero for global financial leaders. The Miller Center of Public Affairs announced today that it will host The New Financial Architecture: A Global Summit on September 7-9.
This September, Charlottesville will become ground zero for global financial leaders. The Miller Center of Public Affairs announced today that it will host The New Financial Architecture: A Global Summit on September 7-9.
It is widely reported today that George Garrett, writer and former UVA English professor, has died at his home in Charlottesville. According to the Washington Post, Garrett died on May 26 of bladder cancer.
Milk via I-95, 30 grand for your own wind machine, and tennis nightmares of Georgia.
More happy news from the local food front: Another farmer’s market has joined the roster, and this year’s Buy Fresh Buy Local guide is now hitting the streets. The new market is in Forest Lakes, in the parking lot of the South Recreational Facility, and runs Tuesdays from 4pm to 7pm.
While most folks were getting drunk in front of a grill, UVA’s Somdev Devvarman was kicking tennis tail, becoming only the fourth player in the last 50 years to win back-to-back NCAA men’s singles championships yesterday.
Charlottesville Fire Chief Charles Werner has been elected the new chair for the Executive Committee of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Emergency Communications and Office for Interoperability and Compatibility.
About 280 tech entrepreneurs, along with a handful of politicians and higher ed administrators, donned ‘black tie’ or at least ‘black’ last night at Farmington Country Club for the 2008 Charlottesville Innovation Awards, presented by the tech-loving Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC).
If you want women–and specifically teens–to have fewer abortions, provide better (read: reality-based) sex ed and give them easier access to contraceptives.
A collection of more than 100 boots bearing the names, ages and hometowns of Virginia residents killed in the Iraq War are on display at the east end of the Downtown Mall, parallel to the Free Speech Wall. The exhibit is on display afternoons through Sunday, May 25…