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Trashnothing.com ups the ante on free reuse.

Charlottesville Area 4th Quarter 2011 Highlights: Median sales price for the region is down 0.4% over last quarter and 3.6% from the Q4-2010 to $240,000 New listings were down 20.3% from the same period last year. Homes took an average 9 days longer to sell compared to Q4-2010 with average Days on Market (DOM) of […]

In today’s challenging real estate market, sellers may be forced to relocate before their home is sold and leave an empty house behind. Not only is this a financial burden, but empty homes are more difficult to sell and while finding a tenant is an option, this solution may cause problems if the renter does […]

When retiree Sharon Baiocco and just-getting-started Amber Ward moved to Charlottesville, the University of Virginia was a factor in both their choices. Baiocco, a former dean at a university in another state, and her sports-loving high-school-teacher husband, John, knew they wanted to be on the East Coast near their children in Richmond and New Jersey. […]

An intriguing project will explore energy and other conundrums in February.

With Homewood Suites bound for a different site, was Stonefield looking for another hotel developer?

Where good habits once reigned, sloth had taken over.

While Harrington’s death is ruled a homicide, her killer, who has links to a Fairfax assault, remains at large

In a piece I wrote recently for a sports-related website I gave "report cards" for all 12 teams in the ACC.

My final comment for the Virginia basketball team was: Virginia might be the ACC’s version of "The Little Girl With A Curl ." "When she was good, she was very, very good. And when she was bad she was horrid." (In case you’re wondering, those are the last lines of a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Nursery Rhyme.)

The suit, brought by five homeless men in Charlottesville, was filed last June and claims that the soliciting ordinance approved by City Council in August 2010 violates both the First and Fourteenth Amendments.