There’s been a 151% increase in people needing help from the food bank in the past eight years in a steady, long-term rise. These are people with jobs. #
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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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Wonder how closely that tracks the rise in obesity in the last 8 years.
I’ve been these people, but was fortunate enough to not need to visit the food bank. I suspect the food bank could play a role in helping people to shop, when they do shop, differently. There are many less expensive vegetarian options that few omnivores truly consider. Rice & beans; lentils; eggs. Good quality protein and comparatively inexpensive. Do the food banks include economy nutrition education in their services? There could be an unexplored opportunity here.
“The Poor Are Getting Poorer?” Waldo, is this what you really wish to say. Let’s say there were 100 people using the food bank and now there’s 251. That represents a 151% increase but are they poorer?
That’s exactly what I wish to say, what with poor, in fact, getting poorer. We’re all getting poorer, courtesy of the recession. The only people unaffected are the people who are already so staggeringly poor that things can hardly get any worse.
Waldo, which article do you wish for us to read?
? I wish for you to read any newspaper article about the economy in any publication in the past two years, I suppose. :)