AltWeeklies Wire
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
Zone of Contentionnew
AltWeeklies Award - News Story (1500 words or less)
C-Ville Weekly |
John Borgmeyer |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Steve McQueennew
AltWeeklies Award - Illustration
C-Ville Weekly |
Mario Zucca |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Come Here Often?new
AltWeeklies Award - Format Buster
C-Ville Weekly |
Nell Boeschenstein |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
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
Roll Call for the 2008 Muzzle Awardsnew
The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression honors -- if that's the right word -- those who engage in "especially egregious or ridiculous" acts of censorship.
C-Ville Weekly |
Cathy Harding |
04-09-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Cockfighting Becomes Felony in Virginianew
The time-honored practice of cockfighting is being elevated to a felony, thanks to legislation that sailed through the General Assembly, and despite the protests of the Virginia Gamefowl Breeders Association, an organization based in Blackstone that claims 2,000 members.
C-Ville Weekly |
Jayson Whitehead |
04-02-2008 |
Animal Issues
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
Inside Advance America's Pocketbooknew
The numbers on America's biggest payday lender.
C-Ville Weekly |
Will Goldsmith |
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
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
The False Promise of the State Lotterynew
In 1999, Virginia voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional referendum designating all state lottery proceeds to education, but when you buy a lottery ticket, only a fraction goes towards education.
C-Ville Weekly |
Jayson Whitehead |
03-19-2008 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Salvia: The Next Casualty in the War on Drugsnew
Let us herald the last legal days of the strong, natural hallucinogen salvia divinorum in Virginia. Raise your hand if you've ever heard of it before.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
03-05-2008 |
Drugs
Tags: Drugs
Professor Defends Domestic Government Spyingnew
"We ought to be more concerned if Bin Laden is calling someone in Peoria than if he's calling someone in Pakistan," Robert Turner says, arguing for an expansion of FISA.
C-Ville Weekly |
Jayson Whitehead |
02-27-2008 |
Civil Liberties
