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Unauthorized dialogue: 'Palace coup meets grassroots rebellion'
Published on Jun 18th, 2012
30 comments An overnight message hand-scrawled in thick red marker defied UVA's official attempts to wipe it clean. G R E E E D (they added a bonus "E") spelled out over the six Corinthian columns on the north...
Sullivan stripped: V-P Simon hints at quit if no BOV change
Published on Jun 17th, 2012
93 comments Despite an officially-announced departure date in August, ousted University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan has already been stripped of her authority, but one of her two top deputies revealed...
'Important alum': Donor Jones had role in Sullivan ouster
Published on Jun 16th, 2012
172 comments With the chair of the Darden School Foundation board Peter Kiernan having resigned to distance himself from raging fires of discontent over the ouster of UVA president Teresa Sullivan, attention...
Bad form? BOV ignored own president-replacing precedent
Published on Jun 15th, 2012
69 comments One of the harshest criticisms emerging from the sack of UVA president Teresa Sullivan is that the way the Board of Visitors handled her dismissal has caused such blow-back that the BOV managed to...
Head rolls: Kiernan out as UVA faculty condemn Sullivan ouster
Published on Jun 14th, 2012
141 comments Just four days after University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan was ousted in what many are calling a coup by a small faction of the University's Board of Visitors and a cadre of Wall Street-...
'Cabal Hall': Why would Darden trump Carr's Hill?
Published on Jun 13th, 2012
258 comments An alleged clash between UVA President Teresa Sullivan and the Board of Visitors has resulted in Sullivan's ouster after less than two years in office, leaving faculty and staff at the University in...
Taking Residence: $25mm hotel targets Random Row site
Published on Jun 4th, 2012
13 comments Related: • Landmark move: Hotel shell bids due in early June Even before the Landmark mess gets sorted out, a developer has made plans to build a new hotel in Charlottesville that will transform a...
Landmark move: Hotel shell bids due in early June
Published on Jun 4th, 2012
2 comments As Williamsburg-area officials prepare one Halsey Minor mansion for sale and as the embattled internet financier himself tries to unload his San Francisco version of the Petit Trianon along with his...
Budget bus: Starlight gears up for big changes
Published on May 30th, 2012
3 comments When A. Goff Limousine purchased luxury Charlottesville-to-New York bus service Starlight Express in 2010, general manager Dan Goff promised to give Amtrak a run for its money by offering competitive...
Flights slashed: CHO to LaGuardia about to get skimpier
Published on May 30th, 2012
1 comments If you live in Charlottesville but want to wake up in the city that doesn't sleep, you'll have a harder time doing it pretty soon. That's because this summer, the Charlottesville Albemarle Regional...
Guide to a death-defying summer o' 2012
Published on May 24th, 2012
5 comments Mint Springs provides a beach with mountain views. Skinny dipping at Mint SpringsOh, wait– that's not allowed. But even with a swimsuits-not-optional policy, Albemarle County has three...
Beware: There's a dark side of sunny days
Published on May 24th, 2012
7 comments The warm sun on your skin... picnics with friends.... long, lazy days... beach vacations... heat stroke? We're not trying to kill your summer buzz, but there are a few heightened risks associated...
Burning roadside: Can Mark Cline rise again from the ashes?
Published on May 23rd, 2012
2 comments Just as the tourist season was about to begin, one of Virginia's most trip-worthy attractions has been destroyed by fire, a rude turn for the one-man whirling dervish whose creativity, for 30 years,...
Brain eater: After boy's death, aunt urges safer swimming
Published on May 21st, 2012
17 comments For decades, brain-eating organisms were the stuff of legends– or of legendarily hot places like Texas, Arizona, and Florida. But the killer amoeba known as Naegleria fowleri really did invade...
Towing tales: Like hassles, everybody has one
Published on May 17th, 2012
17 comments It was supposed to be a fun night out on the Downtown Mall for a pair of mothers: dinner followed by a show, then home to their families. But on April 17, after shelling out nearly $80 for tickets to...
Tough business: Collier's boss talks shop
Published on May 17th, 2012
14 comments It's early afternoon at Collier's Towing Service, and owner Glenda Jones takes a break from the phones to greet a reporter in the impound lot for cars towed from Keith Woodard's and other parking...
Caveat emptor: How $2.75 generates $145

Published on May 17th, 2012
48 comments –An essay– By David M. Post I don't begrudge anyone running a successful business in a capitalistic society. I do, however, want people to have the ability to make an informed decision;...
Big gun: Love's legal choice suggests hard-fought suit
Published on May 7th, 2012
36 comments If Sharon Love's first lawsuit had people scratching their heads and wondering if it was more symbolism than an actual effort to collect millions of dollars from a young man who will likely spend the...
Starsia sued: UVA lax coaches, state targeted by Love family
Published on May 3rd, 2012
117 comments The family that sued George Huguely V in the death of their 22-year-old daughter has now filed a $29.4 million suit against the lacrosse coaches who reportedly missed key signals that they had a...
Battle of the noodle: Allied heats up recycling rhetoric against Van der Linde
Published on May 2nd, 2012
73 comments For several years now, Allied Waste, which is owned by mega-waste company Republic Services, has been largely silent while Van der Linde Recycling (VDLR) steals all the local trash and recycling...
Six bands (and venues) to watch
Published on Apr 26th, 2012
2 comments For a town with a long lineage of locally-grown musicians, rounding up contenders as "up and coming" stars is easy, but choosing from all this talent is hard. Our venues are constantly packed with...
Mr. Tom Tom: Beyer sees bands and innovation together
Published on Apr 26th, 2012
19 comments As far as music festivals go, certain regions of the country have it covered: Chicago has Lollapalooza, Tennessee has Bonnaroo, and Austin has South-by-Southwest. What more do we need? According to...
Survival story: How they defeated a rabid bear
Published on Apr 20th, 2012
12 comments Running into a rabid bear can pretty much ruin your morning, according to two men who survived to tell the tale of Virginia's first-ever reported rabid bear, an encounter that occurred in the...
Wasted gateway: How the City (mis)treats the Belmont Bridge
Published on Apr 19th, 2012
45 comments Related stories: • Belmont vortex: Vision vs. reality in Belmont Bridge debate • Have you used the Belmont Bridge lately? • 7,000 new cars: CSX stocks up for tripled coal exports • Git 'er blocked:...
Belmont vortex: Vision vs. reality in Belmont Bridge debate
Published on Apr 11th, 2012
37 comments   Related stories: • Have you used the Belmont Bridge lately? • 7,000 new cars: CSX stocks up for tripled coal exports • Git 'er blocked: City picks fencing, not fixing, Belmont Bridge •...
Down and dirty: New mud race draws thousands
Published on Apr 5th, 2012
13 comments It was less than two months before race day when Joshua Bare got the bad news: the owner of the Ruckersville-area property where Bare had planned to hold his upcoming Mud Warrior mud race was backing...
7,000 new cars: CSX stocks up for tripled coal exports
Published on Apr 3rd, 2012
12 comments If you've recently noticed some spiffy new rail cars rolling o'er the countryside, there's a reason: CSX has been bolstering its fleet with about 7,000 new cars to service the company's massive coal...
Water wasters: Worrell decries waste, centralization
Published on Mar 27th, 2012
13 comments   Related story Draining feeling? Lawsuit challenges dam-pipeline plan The latest UN-designated World Water Day, according to a panel of environmental experts gathered at McGuffey Arts Center...
Draining feeling? Lawsuit challenges dam-pipeline plan
Published on Mar 27th, 2012
42 comments Related story: • Water wasters: Worrell decries waste, centralization   Past stories: • FLAWS- Tripled rates, spun numbers, and Conservancy conflicts: Why the war on dredging slogs on • Goodbye...
Fiction winners: Lawyers dominate in Grisham's short-story picks
Published on Mar 21st, 2012
2 comments In Hollywood, everybody has a screenplay. In Charlottesville, apparently everybody has a short story, at least judging by the 141 people who entered the Hook's 11th fiction contest— nearly double...