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News and meta-news about Charlottesville, VA, since 2001.
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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Waldo, this is just a random question without any relevance to this story what-so-ever but I was wondering why there haven’t been any stories on the Virginia governor’s race? The latest Rasmussen Poll (conservative by any standards) has Kaine ahed by 2% (first time hes been ahead all year). I just thought it would be interesting to see how the community feels about the governors race being that, well, Charlottesville is in Virginia. If you want to find a way to make it local, from what Ive seen the only area that Kilgore consistently leads in is Central Virginia.
I was wondering why there haven’t been any stories on the Virginia governor’s race?
Mostly because I cover politics so heavily on my personal blog that it’s just never crossed my mind to write about anything other than strictly-local politics (BoS/Council elections) on cvillenews.com, at least not in the past year or two.
The latest Rasmussen Poll (conservative by any standards) has Kaine ahed by 2% (first time hes been ahead all year).
Rasmussen had Kaine and Kilgore listed as tied as of September 28. From April through August, they had Kilgore constantly at 6 points ahead, outside of the margin of error. Since then, they’ve been within the MoE (separated by two points each time), so they’ve been functionally tied ever since. Mason-Dixon, on the other hand, had Kaine leading be one point (so, again, within the MoE) in July, though that’s partially because they included Potts in their poll, whereas Rasmussen hadn’t. Potts peaked, though, so he’s really just the MoE at this point. :)
I guess I’ll figure out something localish to write about the race. Too bad the candidates haven’t debated here or made C’ville an issue or anything like that.
Thanks Waldo, I’m bookmarking this other site.