4Better Or Worse
The week in reviewWorst case of legislators inserting themselves in vaginas: The House of Delegates is set to pass a bill February 14 that requires women having an abortion to have an ultrasound that uses a vaginal...read more Feb 15th, 2012
The week in reviewBest break for gun-runners: Virginia's Senate passes a bill February 6 lifting the one-handgun-a-month law put into place in 1993 by Governor Doug Wilder to curb gun trafficking, the Washington Post...read more Feb 8th, 2012
The week in reviewBest street theater: The 17 Occupy Charlottesville protesters arrested December 1 for trespassing in Lee Park are found guilty in court January 27. Veronica Fitzhugh, who was charged with indecent...read more Feb 2nd, 2012
The week in reviewLatest hotel death: The body of Laura Daly, 46, is found in the Red Roof Inn January 22 along with David Highfield, 63, who was unconscious and is in intensive care at UVA Medical Center, according...read more Jan 25th, 2012
The week in reviewMost jarring headline: "Neighbors: 5-year-old Stabbed 3 People After Argument Over Juice Box" details the January 16 attack on two juveniles and an adult at a mobile home park on Shady Grove Road in...read more Jan 19th, 2012
The week in reviewTestiest first meeting of the year: The Albemarle Board of Supervisors goes into 3-3 deadlock mode January 4 over the nomination of Duane Snow as chair and adding anti-bypass  supes to the...read more Jan 11th, 2012
The week in reviewOdds on favorite for mayor: Incumbent Satyendra Huja is expected to be elected ceremonial leader of Charlottesville at the January 3 City Council meeting (just after presstime, alas), which will be...read more Jan 4th, 2012
The week in reviewBiggest breakthrough in water wars: The city and county reach an agreement on how they'll split the costs of the mega-dam at Ragged Mountain Natural Area and the nine-mile-uphill pipeline to fill it...read more Dec 22nd, 2011
The week in reviewWorst déjà vu: A gunman terrorizes Virginia Tech December 8, a situation that locks down the campus, amid reports two men are dead. Ross Truett Ashley, 22, a Radford University student, walks up to...read more Dec 15th, 2011
The week in reviewMost pro-active: UVA quickly disabuses Occupy Charlottesville of any notion George Rogers Clark Park is open for takeover. "Quite simply, the University is not a campground," says UVA executive VP/...read more Dec 7th, 2011
The week in reviewBiggest countdown: Will they stay or will they go? Charlottesville withdraws the welcome mat (permit) for Occupy Charlottesville in Lee Park with an 11pm November 29 deadline, after the Hook has gone...read more Dec 1st, 2011
The week in reviewLatest George Huguely ruling: A judge says November 18 that defense attorneys may see slain student Yeardley Love's medical records. Biggest issue for UVA students I: The magnolias slated to be cut...read more Nov 23rd, 2011
The week in reviewWorst week for traffic fatalities: Three people die within 14 hours on Albemarle County roads, none of whom were wearing seatbelts, according to police. Amber Leigh Johnson, 20, and Michael Wayne...read more Nov 16th, 2011
The week in reviewMost double-shotted endorsement: The Daily Progress picks two pro-dam candidates for the three open seats on City Council– incumbent Satyendra Huja and Kathy Galvin– and opines that of...read more Nov 9th, 2011
The week in reviewMost secret negotiations: Albemarle officials are meeting behind closed doors to push for a 42-foot Ragged Mountain dam rather than the city-approved 30-foot earthen dam, and dangling an offer to pay...read more Nov 2nd, 2011
The week in reviewMost accommodating: City officials agree to extend the permit for Occupy Charlottesville in Lee Park until October 27, and waive the $25 fee. Previously, camping had not been allowed in the city park...read more Oct 27th, 2011
The week in reviewBest sign Louisa may be cursed: A tornado touches down southeast Gordonsville around 3:30pm October 13, ripping the roof off historic Sylvania, a house on the James Madison Highway that dates from...read more Oct 20th, 2011
The week in reviewWorst crash aftermath: Doris Campbell, 33, injured October 3 in a head-on collision on Old Lynchburg Road, dies October 10 and becomes the 14th fatality in Albemarle this year. Brandon Wilson, 28, of...read more Oct 13th, 2011
The week in reviewGloomiest Albemarle budget news: The county projects a $1 million shortfall for this fiscal year and the next because of a fall in real estate assessments anticipated through 2013, the Daily Progress...read more Oct 6th, 2011
The week in reviewMost disturbing statistics: One in five Charlottesville families can't pay their bils and one in three can't afford day care and transportation costs to keep a job, according to a study based on U.S...read more Sep 29th, 2011