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No relief

Housing advocates predict eviction spike as state rent relief program nears end

In brief

Virginia Supreme Court rejects GOP mapmaker nominees Virginia’s redistricting process continues to lurch forward....

False alarm?

In October, leaders at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlottesville penned a blog post accusing the...

In brief

In brief Fellini’s closing Yet another Charlottesville business has been shuttered by the coronavirus. Last week, the...

At risk

While Congress continues to debate a much-needed coronavirus relief package—almost nine months after the first one...

Designed to deceive

Around 7pm on November 10, a city resident was surprised to see a cluster of 20 to 30 sign-carrying protesters and a...

Real power

For more than a year, the Charlottesville Police Civilian Review Board and Charlottesville City Council have been...

Know your rights

For months, a state eviction moratorium prevented tenants from being forced out of their homes for not paying rent....

Horrible history

  Charlottesville has an affordable housing crisis: that’s not exactly breaking news. Local activists have been...

Funding fight

“FUND OUR SCHOOLS” read the twinkling electric signs over the Dairy Road footbridge on the evening of January 29....