That’s a wrap! The annual Odd Dominion New Year’s quiz
Think you were paying attention to Virginia politics in 2014? Take our carefully curated multiple-choice quiz and find out just how much of an electoral obsessive you really are. 1. […]
Water Street garage victim Justin Frazier remembered as tough guy with a big heart
It was never easy for Justin Frazier, 24, beginning at birth, when his umbilical cord wrapped around his foot and it was amputated when he was a baby, according to […]
Jesse Matthew to appear in Fairfax court
Accused abductor Jesse Matthew, 33, will appear in court January 8 and 9 in Fairfax County for motions hearings pertaining to a 2005 rape in which he’s charged with attempted […]
Charlottesville City Council backs mall camera study
A majority of the Charlottesville City Council agreed Monday night to study the cost and impacts of installing of publicly owned security cameras on the city’s Downtown Mall, the West […]
UPDATE: Police say man accidentally fell to his death in Water St. garage
UPDATE 12:45pm Friday, January 2: Police have identified the person found dead in the Water Street parking garage New Year’s Day as Justin Michael Frazier, 24, of Crozet, and have […]
Upstart Internet provider Ting is bringing gigabit speeds to C’ville
Finally, a little good news for Charlottesville in the national media: The city made tech and financial headlines last week when mobile company Ting announced it was buying a controlling […]
Rutherford Institute weighs in on handcuffed 4-year-old
Local civil rights organization founder John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute sent a stern letter to Andrea Whitmarsh, superintendent of Greene County Schools, about policies that allowed an out-of-control 4-year-old […]
UPDATED: Details in Sage Smith disappearance come to light
This updated and expanded story, which appeared in print Wednesday, January 7, includes reporting from a previous, shorter piece on the Sage Smith investigation that ran online on December 24. To read […]
Delegate Jailbird: Joe Morrissey attempts to make history
Odd Dominion is an unabashedly liberal, bi-monthly op-ed column covering Virginia politics. We are not normally overflowing with good cheer this time of year, for one simple reason: Nothing ever […]
Legal sniping: Weiner sentencing continued…again
Surely Mark Weiner hoped, going into Albemarle County Circuit Court on December 17 to be sentenced for abduction with intent to defile, the third time would be the charm that […]