4Better Or Worse
The week in review
Published on Jul 14th, 2005
0 comments Best day for London: July 6, when the International Olympic Committee announces the city will host the 2012 Olympics. Worst: July 7, when four separate terrorist explosions hit three train lines and...
The week in review
Published on Jul 7th, 2005
0 comments Latest UVA cheating scandal: Most of the 35 first-year grad students in economics are under investigation for sharing a homework answer key that was available online. Most surprising resignation: On...
The week in review
Published on Jun 30th, 2005
0 comments Most widely decried Supreme Court decision: Virginia legislators scurry to get laws in place forbidding eminent domain seizures for developers like the one the high court upheld– Kelo v. City...
The week in review
Published on Jun 23rd, 2005
0 comments Oddest bedfellows: City councilors Kevin Lynch and Rob Schilling, who rarely agree on anything, both vote against appropriating $3.8 million in state and federal funds to the ballooning budget of the...
The week in review
Published on Jun 16th, 2005
0 comments Latest in the Scottie Griffin annals: A lawsuit against the former Charlottesville school superintendent and her previous employer, the New Orleans public schools, is settled in favor of the...
The week in review
Published on Jun 9th, 2005
0 comments Worst suspicious national fire: Cleveland authorities declare the May 21 fire that killed nine– including seven children attending a slumber party– arson. Worst suspicious local fire: The...
The week in review
Published on Jun 2nd, 2005
0 comments Most elite public university: UVA, which has the smallest percentage of low-income students– eight percent– of any state flagship school, according to a New York Times report. Worst...
The week in review
Published on May 25th, 2005
0 comments Worst pediatrician publicity: "M.D. accused of trying to kill baby" reads a headline in the May 21 Daily Progress. Former UVA Medical Center doc Iain Galnov is charged with the attempted murder of...
The week in review
Published on May 19th, 2005
0 comments Best vindication for Mark Spicer: The former Albemarle fire marshal, fired for attempting to erase a video of him hugging an arson suspect, successfully appeals a misdemeanor conviction for...
The week in review
Published on May 11th, 2005
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on May 5th, 2005
0 comments <P><B>Youngest stabber:</B> A 14-year-old male Buford Middle School student is arrested for knifing a fellow student on 9th Street SW April 29 around 3pm– over a girl, Liesel...
The week in review
Published on May 5th, 2005
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Apr 28th, 2005
0 comments Shortest tenure: Embattled Charlottesville school superintendent Scottie Griffin resigns April 21 after 10 months at the helm of city schools. [More on next page–editor.] Earliest 57th District...
The week in review
Published on Apr 21st, 2005
0 comments Most watched smoke signals: At the Vatican, where 115 cardinals gather to select Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany as successor to Pope John Paul II April 19. Ratzinger, 78, will be known as...
The week in review
Published on Apr 14th, 2005
0 comments Biggest scandal: Two Charlottesville police officers are arrested April 8 on bribery and conspiracy charges. Officers Charles Saunders and Roy Fitzgerald are indicted in federal court for allegedly...
The week in review
Published on Apr 7th, 2005
0 comments   Most mourning: Pope John Paul II dies April 2 and thousands, including President George W. Bush, head to Rome for the Holy Father's funeral April 8. Worst timing: The nuptials of Prince...
The week in review
Published on Mar 31st, 2005
0 comments Clearest shot for David Toscano: Former vice-mayor Meredith Richards, former Albemarle County Democratic chair William Harvey, UVA clinical psych prof Peter Sheras, and even top-blogger Waldo...
The week in review
Published on Mar 24th, 2005
0 comments Biggest deathbed drama: Congress intervenes in the March 18 removal of Terry Schiavo's feeding tube and votes over the weekend to allow Schiavo's parents to argue for their daughter's life in front...
The week in review
Published on Mar 17th, 2005
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The week in review
Published on Mar 10th, 2005
0 comments Smallest tax cut: City Manager Gary O'Connell and Vice Mayor Kevin Lynch propose reducing Charlottesville's tax rate of $1.09 per $100 to $1.05– in the face of real estate assessments that have...
The week in review
Published on Mar 3rd, 2005
0 comments Most weather: Charlottesville ends February with a fall of more than four inches of snow; Wintergreen reports 11 inches. Worst snow casualties: An Acura driven by Matthew Weiss crashes into a...
The week in review
Published on Feb 24th, 2005
0 comments Biggest school brouhaha– Charlottesville: According to reports in the Daily Progress, Mayor David Brown blames School Board Chairwoman Dede Smith's communication skills for escalating the...
The week in review
Published on Feb 17th, 2005
0 comments Worst constitutional tampering: Both houses of the General Assembly pass resolutions to constitutionally ban same-sex marriage– as if the Commonwealth didn't already have enough laws on the...
The week in review
Published on Feb 10th, 2005
0 comments Best job security: UVA President John Casteen will keep his job through 2011, and CEO Leonard Sandridge will remain top administrator until June 2009, Bob Gibson reports in the Daily Progress....
The week in review
Published on Feb 3rd, 2005
0 comments Hottest neighborhoods: Venable, Maury Hills, and Azalea see the biggest increase in property assessments, bumping Belmont from last year's number-one position. Notices advising Charlottesville...
The week in review
Published on Jan 27th, 2005
0 comments Biggest sticker shock: Albemarle real estate jumps an average 27 percent in the county's latest biennial property assessment. Biggest budget: Albemarle schools Superintendent Kevin Castner proposes a...
The week in review
Published on Jan 20th, 2005
0 comments Most surprising political maneuver: Attorney General Jerry Kilgore announces his resignation effective February 1 to focus on raising money for his run for governor and to allow the Republican-...
The week in review
Published on Jan 13th, 2005
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The week in review
Published on Jan 6th, 2005
0 comments   Worst natural disaster: A 9.0 earthquake in the Indian Ocean December 26 unleashes tsunamis in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and eight other countries, leaving at least 139,000 dead...
The week in review
Published on Dec 23rd, 2004
0 comments Biggest bomb scare: A US Airways Express jet makes an emergency landing at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport December 16 after a man who missed the Knoxville flight in Washington allegedly is...