Progress owner Media General is having a hard time paying its debt.
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UVA graduation is this weekend (May 20th). Consider yourself warned. #
Theodore Roosevelt’s Albemarle retreat, Pine Knot, is looking to become more well known and accessible. #
Tablet computers are working out pretty well in city schools. #
VDOT got seven bids for the Western Bypass, but they’re secret until one is selected in June. #
One small car part is the sole evidence of who killed a Waynesboro woman in a hit-and-run on Saturday. The community at Jalopnik figured it out—it’s from the grille of a 2003 Ford F150 XL. #
Does the city have the power to set the speed on the bypass so ridiculously low? Several people argue that it does not. #
Council has again shot down the police department’s request for funding to put CCTV security cameras all along the Downtown Mall. #
A little light reading: Charlottesville’s charter. These are the rules, set by the legislature, under which C’ville exists. #
The plan for Shoppers World has been made public. Stein Mart and DSW will moving in to the complex recently vacated by Whole Foods. #
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- Could a Mid-Week Farmers’ Market Work in Crozet? Jim
- Virginia’s General Assembly and the New Voter Identification Law Walker Richmond
- Graduation blessings The Rev. James Richardson
- “However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.” jmrlblog
- Baggby’s – still my favorite “cool” view of the Charlottesville Downtown Mall (2012) RuthK
- This Day (L’édition paranoïaque) Brendan Wolfe
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Well, that’s interesting: the linked article suggests that Media General might sell off some of their properties. Like maybe the Daily Progress.
What if the Progress were to become an independent, muckraking, controversy-facing, INTERESTING daily, full of local content?
It could happen!
@ Hawkins Dale
That sure does pique curiousity – don’t it! Yep it sure could suggest that… yet, I would not be too gung-ho to hold any breath over such happening. Although, it sure would be just the ticket the Progress might (in very private upper star-chamber circles)grab as an excuse, for a way to split its embedded partenership with C’ville Tommorrow.
Just saying….. not that it would ever happen. No, not here!
Fortunately that paywall on the Daily Progress web site will generate incredible revenue. :/