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. Both Standard and Poor's and Moody's Investor's Service gave the city's municipal bonds a AAA rating, their highest values.
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. The athletics department has raised approximately $23 million for the new arena, about 20 percent of the estimated $125 million total cost.
Charlottesville's gaggle of street musicians and performers will have to find somewhere else to roost late at night. City Council passed an ordinance Monday banning loud noise in the Downtown Mall area from 10 p.m.
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 number of economics majors more than doubled from 258 in 1991 to 612 in 2000.
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. Coventry will pay approximately $12.5 million to acquire QualChoice and its parent company, Blue Ridge Health Alliance Inc., from its majority shareholders, the University Medical Center and the University Health Services Foundation.
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. The new logo was unveiled during University President John T.
Despite the clamor of graduate students protesting on the Lawn and the ongoing budget discord in Richmond, University President John T.
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.
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.
