4Better Or Worse
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Feb 19th, 2009 0 comments
Biggest change of signal: Local TV stations NBC29 and the Newsplex make the jump from analog to digital broadcasting by February 17 as originally scheduled, despite Congress postponing the deadline...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Feb 12th, 2009 4 comments
Biggest clearing of the air: The House of Delegates approves 59-39 a diluted smoking ban February 9 in the state founded on tobacco after Governor Tim Kaine and House Republicans agree to a...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Feb 5th, 2009 0 comments
Worst place to be sentenced: The 16th Circuit, which includes Charlottesville and Albemarle, where the judges exceed sentencing guidelines 13.7 percent of the time, according to a Tasha Kates at the...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jan 29th, 2009 0 comments
Most horrific crime: Less than two years after mass murders on the Virginia Tech campus, Chinese grad student Xin Yang, 22, is decapitated January 21 in the cafe at the Graduate Life Center where she...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jan 22nd, 2009 1 comments
Most momentous middle of a Tuesday: Charlottesville stops to watch Barack Obama sworn in as the United States' 44th president January 20.
Most swearings-in: U.S. Representative Tom Perriello...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jan 15th, 2009 2 comments
Biggest housing slump: Albemarle sales fall 31.8 percent in 2008, according to the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors, and Charlottesville's drop 14 percent. The median in Charlottesville...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jan 8th, 2009 0 comments
Biggest brick-laying project: The $7.5 million rebricking of the Downtown Mall begins in earnest January 5.
Scariest statistic: UVA's endowment is lighter by $280 million in November, down from $5.1...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Dec 25th, 2008 0 comments
Most gaping maw of a budget deficit (state level): Governor Tim Kaine projects the state will come up nearly $3 billion short for the 2009 fiscal year, which ends June 30, 2010.
Worst news for UVA:...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Dec 18th, 2008 0 comments
Best plea: One of the alleged murderers of Jayne McGowan, William Douglas Gentry Jr., 23, pleads guilty to capital murder and five related charges in Charlottesville Circuit Court December 15 in...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Dec 11th, 2008 0 comments
Most gaping maw of a deficit: Albemarle's fiscal year shortfall grows from $4.9 million to $7.2 million. Brandon Shulleeta reports on the supes December 3 meeting for the Daily Progress.
Worst...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Dec 4th, 2008 0 comments
Most tragic local link to international terrorism: Nelson County residents Alan Scherr and his 13-year-old daughter, Naomi, are killed while eating at the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai, India, November 27....
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Nov 27th, 2008 0 comments
Least orderly in the court: Witness-assaulter Mark Wayne Shifflett, 46, who attacked and threatened to kill a former employee while handcuffed in Albemarle General District Court August 21 during a...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Nov 20th, 2008 3 comments
Best he-said, he-said: CNET founder Halsey Minor and developer Lee Danielson offer contradictory reports on the $30-million Landmark Hotel now under construction on the Downtown Mall, including...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Nov 13th, 2008 1 comments
Most historic: Barack Obama is elected 44th president, the first African-American to hold that job, winning in a landslide November 4.
Most astounding upset: Ivy Dem Tom Perriello leads by 745...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Nov 6th, 2008 1 comments
Least surprising conclusion: Two-hour parking spaces downtown are in high demand, a survey by the Raleigh, North Carolina, firm Martin Alexiou Bryson determines, and 20 percent of the parkers...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Oct 30th, 2008 0 comments
Biggest shortfall: Albemarle County is looking at a $4.9 million deficit, up from $4.1 million in early September, and county teachers may miss raises, Brandon Shulleeta reports in the Daily Progress...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Oct 23rd, 2008 0 comments
Biggest plunge: Gas prices drop an average of 27 cents over the weekend, from $3.26 October 17 to $2.99 October 20, Brian McNeill reports in the Daily Progress. Despite plummeting prices all over the...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Oct 16th, 2008 0 comments
Worst déjà vu: The stock market plunges almost like it's 1929.
Deepest cuts: Governor Tim Kaine announces layoffs of 570 state employees and slashes UVA's budget by 7 percent in...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Oct 9th, 2008 2 comments
Worst spate of homicides: Joshua Lee Gibson, 20, dies September 30 from a knife attack at Friendship Court and a 44-year-old man is wounded. Lamont Jermaine Blakey, 26, is charged with first-degree...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Oct 2nd, 2008 0 comments
Closest crash to home: Citigroup buys Wachovia stock, priced at $52 per share a year ago, for about a buck a share. The North Carolina-based Wachovia purchased local institution Jefferson National...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Sep 25th, 2008 0 comments
Biggest sticker shock (nationally): Federal money men call for a $700 billion bailout of bad mortgages.
Biggest sticker shock (locally): Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority announces that a $37.5...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Sep 18th, 2008 0 comments
Most disastrous weekend: Hurricane Ike slams the east coast of Texas and takes out Galveston, while Wall Street reels from the bankruptcy of venerable banking house Lehman Brothers, sending the Dow...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Sep 11th, 2008 5 comments
Best protest: UVA students hold blank pieces of paper at the September 6 UVA-University of Richmond game to demonstrate their disapproval of the athletic department's ban on signs.
Rowdiest: Football...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Sep 4th, 2008 0 comments
Most inadequate yearly progress: Nine public schools flunk No Child Left Behind Act standards. In Albemarle, Agnor-Hurt and Greer Elementary schools, and all the county's middle schools– Burley...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Aug 28th, 2008 0 comments
Most ominous sign: UVA bans signs at all athletic events, and many wonder if the prohibition was inspired by David Becker's "Fire Groh" sign at a football game last year. Brian McNeill has the story...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Aug 21st, 2008 2 comments
Latest Meadowcreek Parkway development: City Council approves 3-2 a diamond-shaped grade interchange and temporary construction easements at its August 18 meeting.
Latest shootings: Two men walk into...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Aug 14th, 2008 0 comments
Worst edu-cruise: Students Allison Routman, 21, and Mark Gruntz, 20, are expelled from UVA's Semester at Sea program for alleged plagiarism, kicked off the ship in Athens, and left to find their own...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jul 31st, 2008 0 comments
Worst watershed: The Rivanna River's, according to nonprofit StreamWatch. A majority of streams in its watershed fail Department of Environmental Quality standards, and their quality has declined...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jul 24th, 2008 0 comments
Most violent weekend: Six people are arrested in two shootings that may be gang related. Joshua Anthony "Spanky" Magruder, 19, is found dead around 3am July 19 in the 700 block of Sixth Street SE....
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jul 17th, 2008 3 comments
Lamest legislature: For the second year in a row– in a state with crumbling infrastructure and roads unfunded– Virginia's General Assembly fails to come up with a transportation plan. "I...
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