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UVA Journalists Like Food….

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 4, 2001 in UVa. Closed

cyberville writes: A pretty cool, and at times hysterical, portrait of the surrounding cville community is featured in today’s cav daily. Encompassing Charlottesville is hyped up and made out to sound like these four teams of UVA reporters set off in four different directons and in the face of adversity managed to bring back the “killer” story. But all I see that ties these stories together is the craving for off-highway food. Though, I will admit, I did enjoy the colorful portraits of the people it depicted. But what was so hard about reporting these stories? It looks like these four teams chose the easiest, smarmiest, and fastest way out they could find.

It’s good to see UVA folks leaving grounds, especially with cameras.

Redistricting Plan

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 4, 2001 in Politics. 1 Comment

Yesterday, Virginia Republicans revealed their redistricting plan, which carves Albemarle County into no less than four House of Delegates districts. Southern Albemarle County ends up, bizarrely, in the district of Delegate Watkins Abbitt, from Appomattox. (I couldn’t pick out Appomattox on a map.) Crozet, equally strangely, is in the district of Steve Landes, from Weyers Cave. The Progress quotes the never-shy Mitch Van Yahres as saying of the plan, “It is idiotic. It is just ridiculous.” Emily Couric asks, “Does that mean Steve Landes is going to come to Albemarle Board of Supervisors meetings and become active in Albemarle County?” I’m guessing that he’s not.

Take the Pavement Tour

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 4, 2001 in Music. 1 Comment

cyberville writes: C-ville Weekly has a great story on the Death of Pavement and UVA alum Stephen Malkmus’ latest musical offering. Who else has a great local ancedote about these guys? They have truly been the darlings of inde rock for the past decade. I’ve run into Malkmus a few times when he played with Silkworm in Portland and Seattle (as the Crust Bros.) and he always speaks fondly of his days spent here…especially at WTJU.

Capshaw to Buy ConAgra Property

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 4, 2001 in Business. 1 Comment

Today, the Progress is reporting that Dave Matthews Band manager Coran Capshaw is in the process of purchasing the former ConAgra plant out in Crozet. That plant closed six months ago, leaving six hundred people without employment. Though there’s no shortage of white-collar jobs in Central Virginia, people who had worked at the plant for years had little choice of employment, based on their training. Thankfully, Coran is hoping to rent the space to another frozen food manufacturer. Coran has also purchased land behind Pantops, seven acres in Fifeville, and the old Bon Ton Café on the Mall.

Residents Protest Landfill Gag Order

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 3, 2001 in Law and Justice. Closed

The Progress is reporting that some county residents wore gags to last night’s City Council meeting, in protest of the highly-unusual gag order that prevents them from criticizing the proposed Ivy Landfill expansion. You can read the article on George Loper’s site, and don’t miss George’s insightful comments at the bottom.

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Archive for Waldo Jaquith.

Late 20s, Stony Point resident, website developer by trade.