Author Archive for Waldo Jaquith

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Eat Local…at a Chain

Chipotle is a chain, so I won’t eat there. But the Barracks Road Chipotle buys their pork from Polyface Farm.

My head just exploded. I guess I have to go to Chipotle now.

UTS GPS.

UTS has set up their own bus-tracking system, which includes a website that works on all browsers, and even has a mobile phone version. UTS and CTS used the same vendor for their projects.  #

Dick Mountjoy Dies

The voice of WINA has passed away. Dick Mountjoy died today, at the age of 61, succumbing to cancer. He first went on-air as a UVa freshman in 1965, beginning at WELK and moving to WINA in 1980, where he spent the remainder of his career. His years on air at WINA made him a beloved figure to thousands. He was first diagnosed with cancer two years ago, when a doctor found a tumor the size of an egg at the base of his tongue. Treatment was unsuccessful — the cancer returned in February of 2007. Funeral plans have not yet been announced.

To learn more about Dick, see Lindsay Barnes’ recent profile of him in The Hook.

Lexis Nexis Layoffs?

There’s reason to think layoffs are coming at Lexis Nexis. There goes 10% of cvillenews.com’s traffic each work day…  #

City to Spend $5.2M to Reduce Sewage Stink

The Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority has decided to spend $5.2M to reduce the sewage stink from the Woolen Mills processing plant, Seth Rosen and Jeremy Borden write in the Progress. Three million of that will go to building an enclosed receiving statement, with scrubbers to filter outgoing air, and $2.2M will go for equipment to regularly clean the whole joint. Folks living in the area have complained for years, and rightly so — nobody wants to live near that.