Monthly Archive for May, 2001

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Suspect Captured in Meloy Murder

18-year-old Jamie Poindexter has been arrested, charged with the murder of 28-year-old UVa graduate student Alison Meloy. Poindexter, who lives next door to Meloy, has also been charged with robbery and grand larceny. WVIR had the story on their 11 o’clock broadcast.

"No Tax Refund, Please"

At a March Board of Supervisors meeting, taxpayer after taxpayer stood up at the microphone and asked that they not get a part of the county’s $1.2M budget surplus. The County had intended to provide tax refunds after last year’s surplus, giving the average resident $30 of the $1.4M refund. But everybody speaking that night said that there are far better uses for that much money than simply returning it. The result of this is that the real estate tax bills were sent out this weekend, and they give everybody the option of sending in a check for the amount of their refund. That’s a little backwards, but the concept is good. To read the full story, see Peter Savodnik’s piece in today’s Progress.

Constitutional Officers Re-Running

All four Democrat constitutional officers in Charlottesville are re-running for election. Commonwealth Attorney Dave Chapman, Sheriff Cornelia Johnson, Treasurer Jennifer J. Brown and Commissioner of the Revenue Lee Richards are all unopposed, for now, and the Republicans don’t plan to run anybody. Today’s Progress has the story.

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