The Charlottesville Open Government Alliance held a press conference yesterday morning to protest a motion which the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) filed March 22 with the Albemarle County Circuit Court.
Gov. Bob McDonnell proposed amendments this week to a state Senate bill which aim to lessen the restrictions the bill would place on voters' proof of valid identification. The bill, passed by the Senate in February and the House last month, would eliminate the provision which allows voters to cast a ballot without a valid state-issued ID, as long as the voter signed an affidavit confirming his identity. McDonnell spokesperson Jeff Caldwell said in an email yesterday the bill attempts to increase election security by decreasing voter fraud. "Ensuring the integrity of our elections is a cornerstone of a strong democracy," Caldwell said.
The University Law School hosted a forum yesterday afternoon about media piracy featuring viewpoints from Hollywood's Paramount Pictures and non-profit group Public Knowledge. Al Perry, the vice president of Worldwide Content Protection and Outreach at Paramount Pictures, said the community should take a stand against online content theft.
The University announced yesterday Assoc. Engineering Prof. Silvia Salinas Blemker and Assoc. Biology Prof.
Charlottesville City Council yesterday evening unanimously adopted a $146,269,910 budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
A Human Rights Task Force website launched Monday indicates the City of Charlottesville is a step closer to ultimately creating a human rights commission to address discrimination in the City.
Student Council validated the appointments of the executive board and presidential cabinet, the membership co-chairs, marketing and communications chair and CIO consultant co-chairs yesterday evening at the term's inaugural General Body meeting. The new executive board appointed the chairs after interviewing candidates from a pool of applicants.
The Albemarle County Fire Department responded to six brush fires yesterday, according to its website. The National Weather Service, after warning Albemarle County Monday that weather conditions may ignite wildfires, announced another Red Flag Warning yesterday from noon to 8 p.m. National Weather Service meteorologist Jared Klein said the National Weather Service would likely extend the brush-fire alert again, making it an unusually long Red Flag Warning period for the Albemarle County area.
The University pays full-time faculty higher salaries than all other higher-education institutions in Virginia despite a four-year state salary freeze, according to an annual report released yesterday by the American Association of University Professors.
Democrat John Douglass, who seeks to challenge U.S.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signed Senate Bill 41 Thursday, giving Thomas Haynesworth $1,075,178 in compensation after he served 27 years in prison for rapes he did not commit, according to a statement released by the Governor's office. Haynesworth was in prison from 1984 until last March, but he received a writ of innocence for all convictions in December last year, according to the statement.
Martin Kemp, emeritus professor of art history at Oxford University, kicked off this year's three-day Page-Barbour lecture series with a talk yesterday afternoon at the Harrison Institute about art history, nature and science. Founded in 1907, the Page-Barbour Lecture Series at UVa bring specialists to the University to lecture within any field of the arts and sciences. Kemp's lecture, titled "Platonic Solids," drew on both art and science in its examination of Platonic solids - polyhedrons, such as cubes or tetrahedrons - and their variants.
A 12-ton Navy jet crashed into a Virginia Beach apartment complex Friday afternoon, causing no deaths but leaving some residents temporarily homeless. The F/A-18D fighter jet experienced a mechanical malfunction at 12:05 p.m.
The Senate Finance Committee reached a compromise on the $85 million state budget Thursday after 21 days of special-session deliberations.
Virginia is among the nation's least-prepared states for water-related climate change threats, according to a report released Thursday by the National Resource Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group.
The Women's Center presented the Ella Baker Social Justice Award to Queer and Allied Activism Friday afternoon at its second annual Ella Baker symposium. Baker was a black civil rights activist who died in 1986.
Tim Kaine, the Democratic nominee for Sen.
