Gabe Silverman is paving his rutted, dusty Amtrak parking lot. #
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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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Which is good since they’re charging for parking now.
I will beleive it when I see it.
Yes, but will it be leveled out first, or will they just pour asphalt over it, craters, weeds, and all?
The “gimme something for nothing” crowd can find ways to be negative no matter what.
Earlier poets might have brought up the imagery of curs biting the hand that feeds them, but today this is politically improper.
who wants something for nothing? I’m I a cur for wanting not to have my front end aligned every time I go to the PUBLIC mass transit station? I pay federal and local taxes that help support the business in that train station. If it weren’t for the station I wouldn’t care if it was ever paved.
If they want to charge for parking fine- it would probably kill the Wild Wings but that is Silverman right to do. As long as we have a reasonable place to pickup people from the station at no cost. Other than that charge whatever they think the market will bear.
It is silly that this hasn’t been settled before this and it’s clearly Silverman’s fault that it has not.
Hooray! I walk home past the lot every day and find that it’s sometimes impossible not get covered in or inhale dirt getting kicked up in air by vehicles driving through there. The James River Bus that ferries Amtrak customers up to DC peels in and out of there so quickly that the air doesn’t clear for a few minutes after it’s gone.
I hope they improve signage, too. Some people pay, some people don’t. Some people leave cars there for weeks. I have to admit that I wouldn’t know how to pay for a spot there if I was driving in to take the Amtrak train.
“PUBLIC mass transit station” NOT.
“The James River Bus that ferries Amtrak customers up to DC peels in and out of there so quickly” Sounds to me they need more pot holes, not fewer. I wonder how many of the restaurant goers will not get run over.