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A moral map

It’s budget season. For four months every year, council and staff hold public meetings about the coming year’s...

Mall rats

Many Charlottesvillians spent the last few weeks enjoying a festive holiday season on the Downtown Mall. But have we...

Dire straits

The Downtown Mall is not faring well, at least according to the Downtown Business Association of Charlottesville,...

Downtown visitors get a...

Some business owners say the Downtown Mall hasn’t been quite the same since shield-wielding white supremacists and...

Feelin’ the squeeze

No one likes paying taxes. And Charlottesville property owners who saw their commercial assessments go up 65 percent,...

Parliamentary push-back

  Chaps owner Tony LaBua spoke for those not in the thick of last week’s Downtown Business Association of...

DBAC meltdown

Simmering undercurrents from the parking war between the city and Charlottesville Parking Center over the Water...