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If you’re looking at The Spiral for the first time, welcome. This is the first day of what’s surely to be a long and glorious run of C-VILLE blogs. And man, we’d really love to hear what you think … but not quite yet.

Other News We Heard Last Week

Don’t throw it all away: Last Tuesday (a.k.a. Earth Day), UVA pitched in with displays, games and events, including a Dumpster Dive, which revealed how much garbage could have been recycled. Tuesday 4/22 Residents question Hope shelter Two residents of the 10th and Page neighborhood, where the Hope Community Center is located, urged councilors Monday […]

CVS officially coming to the Corner

Anderson Brothers Building owner Terry Vassalos has confirmed that a deal to bring a CVS pharmacy into the space currently occupied by Satellite Ballroom, Just Curry, Higher Grounds and Plan 9 has now been signed and made official, NBC 29 reports.

In Re: Dept. of Hyperbolic Questions

Regarding my old (and overly quick) post on the U.S. Senate’s vote on Ledbetter v. Goodyear, Charlottesville writer Dahlia Lithwick has a must-read piece in Slate. She sums up the opponents of the bill to overturn the Supreme Court ruling thusly: