C-Ville Weekly | Will Goldsmith

High-Paying Government Work is Coming to Albemarle County, Eventuallynew

Have you heard about those wages? Average salaries of $80,000! That’s $64 million on its way. Sixty four million dollars! And now they’re finally here. Well, about 50 of them. The rest are coming and all of them have to be here by September 2011.

C-Ville Weekly | Will Goldsmith | 01-27-2010 | Business & Labor

Tags: Defense Intelligence Agency, Michael Harvey

Mike London is New Head Football Coach at the University of Virginianew

Part of the pleasure of sports is the nakedness of its emperors. The head football coach might be the highest paid employee at a university, but for him there is no such thing as tenure. Seven days after canning its 38th football head coach, UVA had already found No. 39: Mike London.

C-Ville Weekly | Will Goldsmith | 12-16-2009 | Sports

Tags: Mike London, football, sports, University of Virginia, universities

Why's the Increasingly Blue State of Virginia About to Elect a Republican Governor?new

The gap between Democrat Creigh Deeds and frontrunner Bob McDonnell could be as big as 19 points. Why? It has a little to do with the economy, a little to do with McDonnell -- and a lot to do with the limitations of candidate Deeds.

C-Ville Weekly | Will Goldsmith | 10-28-2009 | Politics

Tags: 2009 gubernatorial elections, Bob McDonnell, Creigh Deeds, Virginia

Broken Marriage: A Timeline of the Landmark Hotel Tragedynew

Charlottesville's Landmark Hotel started as a $30 million project that even the Board of Architectural Review could love. Now, only Mother Nature is working on the skeletal tower that stands as a sardonic reminder of the times.

C-Ville Weekly | Will Goldsmith | 04-08-2009 | Housing & Development

Tags: Halsey Minor, Landmark Hotel, Lee Danielson, Charlottesville

Budget Cuts Target Virginia's Neediest Kids...To Save $8 Millionnew

One of the most troubling aspects of Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine’s budget proposal is that we do without any state-run emergency mental health beds for those under 18. Both child advocates and mental health watchdogs say this is a terrible idea that will crowd hospitals, correctional facilities and, some worry, morgues.

C-Ville Weekly | Will Goldsmith | 02-25-2009 | Economy

Tags: Virginia, Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents, mental health facilities

Officially and Unofficially, Dialogue on Race Moves Aheadnew

Charlottesville's City Council has committed to spending $10,000 on a community-wide "dialogue on race," and during budget hearings, it will weigh whether to spend up to $50,000 more. But the very idea of a dialogue on race seems to have started one, even before Council has spent a dime.

C-Ville Weekly | Will Goldsmith | 01-28-2009 | Race & Class

Tags: race relations, public policy, Charlottesville

Inside Advance America's Pocketbooknew

The numbers on America's biggest payday lender.

C-Ville Weekly | Will Goldsmith | 03-26-2008 | Economy

Tags: debt, payday lending, advance america, Economic Issues

Caught in the Payday Lending Cyclenew

Thomasine Wilson took out one payday loan in 2003. Two years and $2,000 later, she pulled herself out of the cycle of debt that the loan touched off.

C-Ville Weekly | Scott Weaver and Will Goldsmith | 03-26-2008 | Economy

Tags: debt, payday lending, Economic Issues

UVA Faculty Call for Emissions Cutbacksnew

While the "Resolution on Climate Commitment" recently ratified last week by the Faculty Senate is ultimately only symbolic, it implores the administration to detail specific goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, conduct an energy audit and create a cabinet-level position to coordinate and enforce conservation.

C-Ville Weekly | Will Goldsmith | 03-19-2008 | Environment

Tags: environment

UVA Professor Talks Credit Crisisnew

Commerce School Professor Robert Webb, who specializes in the study of speculative markets, points out that last year, the European Central Bank and the Fed made rate cuts that analysts thought would be a shorter involvement than it has turned out to be.

C-Ville Weekly | Will Goldsmith | 01-30-2008 | Economy

Tags: Economic Issues

Higher Ed Leaders Warn of Issues to Comenew

Faculty needs, big science and China loom large.

C-Ville Weekly | Will Goldsmith | 10-10-2007 | Education

Tags: Education

Cartoonists Respond to UVA Controversynew

Grant Woolard has stepped inadvertently into the national spotlight for his drawing "Ethiopian Food Fight," which ran in The Cavalier Daily. Pete Mueller, Emily Flake, and Jen Sorenson weigh in on the cartoon and his firing.

C-Ville Weekly | Will Goldsmith | 09-19-2007 | Art

Tags: visual arts