City municipal bonds receive AAA rating
Though municipal bonds typically don't stir up much enthusiasm, Charlottesville's financial managers, and its taxpayers, have a good reason to be excited about the city's bond rating.
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Though municipal bonds typically don't stir up much enthusiasm, Charlottesville's financial managers, and its taxpayers, have a good reason to be excited about the city's bond rating.
Proponents of an $8 "living wage" in the City of Charlottesville earned a conditional victory Monday night at the City Council meeting.
The University's team effort to build a new arena honoring the success of the Cavaliers on the basketball court is moving forward into the planning stages as fund-raising continues.
Charlottesville's gaggle of street musicians and performers will have to find somewhere else to roost late at night.
The economics department is facing a real example of the laws of supply and demand as the number of undergraduate economics majors has risen dramatically over the last 10 years and at a much faster rate than the department's full-time faculty.
The controversial issue of health insurance at the University moved into a new phase Saturday when the University-sponsored HMO, QualChoice of Virginia, was sold to Coventry Health Care, Inc.
The Rotunda, serpentine walls and old style typefaces are all recognizable symbols of the many programs and organizations on Grounds, but the University has never had a unified logo - until now.
Despite the clamor of graduate students protesting on the Lawn and the ongoing budget discord in Richmond, University President John T. Casteen III struck a hopeful and optimistic note for the future at his State of the University address yesterday in Old Cabell Hall.
Participants in the campaign for affordable graduate student health care celebrated a victory yesterday, but student and faculty leaders know there is still more work to be done. University officials recommended Monday that the Board of Visitors institute a $900 per person annual subsidy for graduate student health care coverage. The plan would cost the University $1.8 million annually.
Mathematicians are not widely known for a combative nature, but the construction that began in Kerchof Hall ahead of schedule Monday has some in the University's math department fuming.
In a plot twist worthy of the dramatic masterworks it produces, Shakespeare on the Lawn recently learned that they have lost the performance space for their spring play to the Dave Matthews Band.
As Charlottesville residents awaited the warm weather that will bring spring flowers and blooming dogwoods back to local parks, the city did its part last week to make cyberspace a little greener.
As head of the National Institute of Health's National Human Genome Project, University alumnus Francis S. Collins is a very busy man.
"Clean for Gene" may not be the popular slogan it was on college campuses in 1968, but outspoken political veteran Eugene McCarthy still has a message for America.
The University reported a 4 percent increase in first-year admissions applications in statistics released last Wednesday, regaining some of the ground lost in a nearly 15 percent drop in applications last year.
Charlottesville's thriving artistic community may benefit from a bill that would allow the city to establish an arts and culture district.
At a public debate during the City Council meeting Monday night, Charlottesville residents exercised their right to speak about the controversial monument to free speech proposed for the Downtown Mall.
After a lengthy search process, Charlottesville looked outside its own police department to find a new chief.
Gunshots broke the early morning calm of downtown Charlottesville on Sunday in two separate incidents that occurred only three blocks apart.
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is undertaking a new road expansion plan to alleviate the traffic jams so familiar to Charlottesville residents using Route 29.