Ben Hitchcock

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Dems do battle

Mike Bloomberg’s Charlottesville campaign office is cavernous—and, on a Wednesday afternoon with the Virginia primary...

Clean up your act

Keeping our waterways swimmable, fishable, and drinkable seems like an uncontroversial goal—but the Trump...

Battlefield battles

The Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation, a historic preservation group that installed a monument to Confederate...

Bounce back

Gwen Cassady has lived a lot more life than could fit into a half-page newspaper profile. She’s been homeless four...

Funding fight

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

Race-based bias

A report from a private consulting firm has concluded that Charlottesville and Albemarle disproportionately arrest...

Owning it

LaTita Talbert is a single mother of six, a city bus driver, and a commissioner on the Charlottesville Redevelopment...

Map quest

For years, the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society and the city’s visitor’s center have been distributing a...

Low pay, little power

Mayor Nikuyah Walker was re-elected on January 6, after a short but intense discussion at a City Council meeting that...

Passed down

“We were scattered all over the country, never to meet each other again until we were in another world,” wrote...