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(10/08/19 5:11pm)
The University holds a lot of property throughout the City of Charlottesville. Given the high value of its properties, a 2012 C-VILLE Weekly analysis found, the University should pay millions each year in property taxes, but by state code academic institutions are exempt from their property tax burdens.
(01/18/19 3:37am)
A painted message by the Zeta Phi Beta sorority on Beta Bridge was vandalized Thursday by an unknown party with the words, “It’s OK to be white,” a phrase frequently used online by white nationalists. Zeta Phi Beta, a historically-black sorority, was honoring its national founding on Jan. 16, 1920 at Howard University.
(01/15/19 5:18pm)
The Charlottesville Fire Department responded Monday evening to a fire in a below-ground utility space near the traditional home of the University president on Carr’s Hill. The fire was quickly extinguished.
(01/14/19 1:02am)
Bird, a California-based electric vehicle company, is bringing 100 of its scooters to the City of Charlottesville, the City announced in a press release Thursday.
(12/10/18 1:44am)
Exams scheduled before noon on Monday, Dec. 10 will be rescheduled for Thursday, Dec. 13, according to a University-wide email from University administrators Sunday evening. Exams set for Monday at 7 p.m. have been rescheduled to begin at 6 p.m., the email added.
(12/07/18 11:06pm)
The Finance Committee of U.Va.’s Board of Visitors approved increases to base tuition for in- and out-of-state undergraduate students in a meeting Friday in the Rotunda. In-state students will see a 2.9 percent increase in tuition and fees starting in the 2019-2020 academic year — from $13,682 to 14,078 — while out-of-state students will see a base increase of 3.5 percent, from $44,724 to $46,289.
(12/07/18 8:35pm)
In an interview with The Cavalier Daily earlier this week, University President Jim Ryan said U.Va. must determine the legality of requiring that its dining provider, Aramark, pay its contracted workers a higher wage. When asked about his support for a higher contracted wage, ignoring the legal issue, Ryan did not take a stance, saying he needed to do more research.
(12/06/18 9:24pm)
Ahead of a hearing on an approximately three percent tuition hike at the Board of Visitors later this week, University President Jim Ryan told The Cavalier Daily Tuesday he supports increasing U.Va. tuition for third- and fourth-year students to offset costs, though he said he hopes this hike is “the last significant bump that you see.”
(12/05/18 3:01am)
Sally Hudson, an assistant professor of public policy, education and economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, announced her Democratic candidacy Tuesday evening on Twitter for Charlottesville’s seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, challenging in a primary Democratic incumbent Del. David Toscano.
(11/29/18 3:28am)
A full pool of potential jurors have been selected for the state trial of James Fields Jr., the man accused of driving his car into a crowd of people protesting the white nationalist Unite the Right rally in August 2017, injuring dozens and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
(11/11/18 4:47am)
At least one person was wounded after a “trespasser incident” with a freight train late Saturday night, according to a representative of the Charlottesville Fire Department and a Twitter statement by Amtrak Northeast. The individual is a male U.Va. student, according to a representative of the Charlottesville Police Department. He is presently recovering from non-life-threatening injuries.
(11/08/18 6:51am)
Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler is joining forces with three white supremacist organizations to sue the City of Charlottesville for alleged violations of his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, according to documents filed in federal court Wednesday. The plaintiffs are also suing former CPD Chief Al Thomas and Virginia State Police Lt. Becky Crannis-Curl.
(10/19/18 9:18pm)
In-state students from low- and medium-income families will be able to attend U.Va. at significantly-reduced costs, University President Jim Ryan announced in his inaugural address Friday afternoon.
(10/18/18 5:22pm)
University President Jim Ryan appointed several professors and community members to a new working group designed to evaluate the relationships between the University and the City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and other areas, the University announced in a press release Thursday morning.
(10/10/18 11:43pm)
U.Va.’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors is objecting to the reappointment of the School of Law Prof. Mimi Riley as the non-voting faculty member of the University’s Board of Visitors, the group said in a press release Tuesday.
(10/09/18 8:08pm)
A 44-year-old indigenous woman born in Guatemala — currently residing in the U.S. without immigration papers — is seeking asylum in a Charlottesville-area methodist church, she announced at a press conference Monday afternoon. This is one of the first publicized cases of a person seeking refuge in a Charlottesville church from immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump, whose administration has taken a hardline stance for deporting undocumented immigrants.
(10/04/18 4:57am)
The Charlottesville Fire Department responded to a kitchen fire Wednesday afternoon on the fifth floor of The Standard apartment building on West Main Street. One person was non-critically injured, CFD said in a release, and 14 residents were displaced by fire or sprinkler damage. The release says the displaced residents will be “relocated by management to temporary housing until their units are repaired.”
(10/03/18 4:20am)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Blackmon — who formerly served as the Miller Center’s director of public programs — is leaving the nonpartisan think tank after six years.
(09/28/18 1:02am)
The City of Charlottesville spent approximately $921,000 on the one-year anniversary of the violent white supremacist Unite the Right rallies this past August, according to a press release from the City. Comparatively, the City spent $319,723 during the Unite the Right rallies in August 2017.
(09/27/18 2:33am)
Over the one-year anniversary weekend for the violent white nationalist rallies last Aug. 11 and 12, the University spent $422,981 for labor, equipment, lodging, meals, training and transportation, according to University Spokesperson Anthony de Bruyn. This does not include any costs incurred by the University Health System.