AltWeeklies Wire
What's Stopping Virginia From the Movement to Legalize Marijuana?new
After activists and academics and law enforcement members testified to change Virginia’s marijuana laws, and after a General Assembly subcommittee struck down two bills that would do that, what was left in a hearing room was this: a small baggie of a “leafy substance,” stashed behind the podium.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
03-10-2010 |
Drugs
The Upside of the Downturn: Why This Will Be The Greatest Depression Evernew
Maybe, just maybe, we will grow more healthy, more educated, working fulfilling jobs and listening to better music. Maybe this downturn is just the thing we need to move forward as a nation, to grow some grit and steady our nerves.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
12-03-2008 |
Economy
Does Charlottesville Have a Gang Problem?new
Gunplay and violence in the city's poorest neighborhoods: Are they the work of turf thugs, copy cats, or real-life gang bangers -- and once a shot is fired, what difference does it make, anyway?
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
07-09-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Cohousing Creates Community (and Density)new
Central Virginia's first cohousing development is springing up. As it does so, its proponents battle misconceptions of what it is and the argument that the development, Blue Ridge Cohousing, was just too dense.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
05-22-2008 |
Housing & Development
In Virginia, a Semantic Battle Over the Death Penaltynew
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's April 16 decision on lethal injection, the state's Democrats and Republicans fight the "reprieve" vs. "moratorium" battle via press release.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
04-23-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Home Sales Down, but Prices Are Up: Blame it on the Credit Crunchnew
After the bottom fell out of the subprime mortgage debacle, lenders started to look at potential borrowers with greater scrutiny. Gone are the days of borrowers with weak credit snagging mortgages with no money down. Yet higher-priced houses are still moving because better-off buyers have an easier time getting loans.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
04-23-2008 |
Economy
Charlottesville Backs Federal Department of Peacenew
The city, via resolution, is urging Virgil Goode to partner with Dennis Kucinich and co-sponsor HR 808, a collaboration that, if it happens, may well cause the Capitol to implode in some sort of space-time continuum hullabaloo.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
04-16-2008 |
War
Virginia College Newspapers Get OK'd for Booze Adsnew
U.S. District Magistrate Judge Hannah Lauck ruled that a Virginia law banning ads for alcohol in student newspapers and another that limits words in ads violate the First Amendment.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
04-09-2008 |
Media
Why Go to a Payday Lender Anyway?new
The answer is very often because there aren't better options.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
03-26-2008 |
Economy
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
Why Are We Still Smothered in Paper?new
We were promised a paperless office, a workplace devoid of the scattered, cluttered clumps of paper humpbacking everyone's desk. So what happened?
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
02-27-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Virginia Assembly Can't Kill HPV Vaccinenew
Last year, Virginia joined Texas as the only states to require sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated for the human papillomavirus, a move that outraged social conservatives in both places. Now in Virginia, legislators are trying to push back requirement’s start date, or kill it altogether.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
02-07-2008 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Proposed Coal Plant a Symbol of Looming Energy Debatenew
The proposed Wise County plant has come to symbolize growing debates about the importance of a region's economic health verses the actual health of its residents, the power of Dominion in state government and the looming battle over the future of public investment for our energy.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
01-16-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Hundreds Flood Virginia Capitol to Oppose New Coal Plantnew
Alternative energy, efficiency the way to go, locals say.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
01-16-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Virginia Juggles Education & Prison Spendingnew
Shiny new prisons, crappy old schools.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
01-02-2008 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
