Unfortunately, a recent pair of rulings by the World Trade Organization threatens to ignite a new tariff war between the U.S. and the European Union.
Instead of sticking to the basics — amending the budget and providing COVID relief — legislators started churning out bills totally unrelated …
Two-point-four million dollars is a significant amount of money, and ACSA customers will be more accepting of the surplus if they know the mon…
Charlottesville wisely has offered the Downtown Mall’s outdoor restaurants a break on fees as they continue to struggle with the economic fall…
The issue of participation in online classes has obvious and serious implications for learning. If students are just logging in but not stayin…
A pilot program allowing municipal broadband authorities to independently compete with private-sector entities for state grants fell apart dur…
The James River Water Authority said last week it will take a closer look at a potential alternative location for a project now slated to be b…
The Charlottesville Skate Park earned Best New Facility honors in the 25,001-50,000 population category from the Virginia Recreation & Par…
Kudos to Baker-Butler Elementary School on its selection as a National Blue Ribbon School for its success in closing achievement gaps.
For years Washington has debated the fate of a subset of the immigration picture: trained, sought-after foreign tech workers. Now the Trump ad…
Virginia legislators should proceed with caution on efforts to automatically expunge certain criminal records in an attempt to reduce or elimi…
U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine recently announced that Albemarle would get $1.9 million through the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emerg…
Drama over staffing shortages for its fire and rescue department seems to be centered in Charlottesville. Which is why federal money to reliev…
University of Virginia economics professor Ed Burton said Virginia’s pension system should have earned closer to 8%. Instead, it earned 1.4%.
UVa should not walk away from its founder, the man who also helped found this nation on the very principles, now more fully realized, that enc…
NASA's Mars mission offers an economic bright spot nationally and in Virginia.
The federal immigration detention system — mostly an archipelago of privately run prisons or contracted space in local jails — is a humanitari…
John Conover’s passing will leave a huge gap in Charlottesville’s civic life and in the lives of his family and friends. But, oh, the gaps he …
We all should be on the same page about public health. The coronavirus is not a hoax. It is a highly contagious virus that quickly can turn deadly.
Gov. Ralph Northam recently announced a modification to Virginia’s use of federal CARES money, allowing landlords to apply directly for assist…
Supreme Court confirmations have become another venue for the country’s poisonous partisanship. Why? Part of the answer lies in the lifetime t…
The Emergency Communications Center is the joint operation that handles emergency dispatching for police, fire and ambulances for Charlottesvi…
Sue Burgess said she had sent her winning second-chance ticket by certified mail — certified! — via the U.S. Postal Service. The lottery offic…
Charlottesville reports that “a small number” of voters failed to receive their mail-in ballots as requested. In Richmond and Henrico, the opp…
An election official in Michigan complained to police about … ahem, there’s no other way to say this … a toilet placed on a lawn in a town nea…
Regarding colleges and universities, much attention has been focused on COVID case outbreaks. What about the success stories?
Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe recently filed paperwork with the Virginia State Board of Elections that would enable him to run for a non-consecu…
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