An executive order signed by President Donald Trump earlier this month would shut down the Federal Executive Institute, a leadership training center based in Charlottesville since 1968. Located on a 14-acre campus about a mile from the University of Virginia, the FEI has trained more than 30,000 senior federal employees over the past 57 years. […]
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump earlier this month would shut down the Federal Executive Institute, a leadership training center based in Charlottesville since 1968. Located on a 14-acre campus about a mile from the University of Virginia, the FEI has trained more than 30,000 senior federal employees over the past 57 years. […]
Chaos and questions were rampant when the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget released a memo pausing all federal financial assistance programs on January 27. The order was eventually rescinded, but future plans for the funding remain unknown at press time. The funding freeze, the culmination of multiple executive orders issued by President Donald […]
As the saying goes, “new year, new me,” but the United States is starting 2025 with a rerun: the inauguration of Donald Trump and a Republican majority in the U.S. House and Senate. Few of Trump’s priorities have clearly outlined policy proposals, either on his campaign website or in his official statements post-election. The president-elect’s […]
Two weeks ago, the far-right riot at the U.S. Capitol—fueled by President Donald Trump’s false claims that he won the election—shocked people across the world. But for many, it was a familiar scene. As the country looks ahead to a new administration and beyond, Charlottesville’s leaders and activists have hard-won advice for President Joe Biden. […]
The 2020 federal fiscal year begins October 1, marking the deadline for Donald Trump’s presidential determination on the number of refugees allowed to enter the United States for resettlement. Virginia has already taken a hit from previous reductions by Trump, with Richmond’s Church World Service—one of nine State Department-designated resettlement agencies in the U.S.—announcing that […]
Infighting implodes council The hiring of an interim city manager, an event that usually takes place behind closed doors, has become heated and public, with reports of shouting at a July 20 closed City Council session. Mayor Nikuyah Walker has gone on Facebook Live twice to express her concerns that the process is part of […]
Red Hen refusal ignites firestorm When two former C-VILLE Weekly writers opened the Red Hen in Lexington in 2009, they loved everything about the Rockbridge County college town—except its lack of a farm-to-table eatery. Since then, the restaurant has become a renowned fine dining option, and that could be why White House press secretary Sarah […]
Love estate drops lawsuit against Huguely The estate of Yeardley Love nonsuited a nearly $30 million wrongful death lawsuit against Love’s former boyfriend George Huguely June 11. Huguely was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2010 death of Love and sentenced to 23 years in prison. Her mother, Sharon Love, filed the civil suit in […]
Every day since Donald J. Trump became the Republican presidential nominee on July 21, 2016, local artist Warren Craghead has drawn him, or someone in his administration. Now six months’ worth of Craghead’s daily drawings have been published in a collection titled Trump Trump, Volume 1: Nomination to Inauguration. “I thought when I started it […]
False equivalence makes me sick. Likely it does the same to you, too, even if you don’t recognize the symptoms. It’s rhetorical MRSA, an indestructible super-bug that infects the mind and body politic. And as has been widely reported, a new strain of contagion took hold on August 15 when the 2016 Electoral College Winner […]