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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

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

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

Energy Expert Warns About Peak Oilnew

Robert Hirsch predicts worldwide shortages, general chaos if not mitigated.

C-Ville Weekly | Scott Weaver | 12-05-2007 | Environment

Tags: oil, environment, peak

Is Racial Profiling a Virginia Problem?new

Citizens, state police disagree; group wants numbers.

C-Ville Weekly | Scott Weaver | 11-28-2007 | Race & Class

Tags: race relations

John Echeverri-Gent on Pakistan Crisisnew

The UVA politics prof compares situation to fall of Shah in Iran.

C-Ville Weekly | David Moltz | 11-14-2007 | International

Tags: Pakistan, international

Families of Virginia Tech Shooting Victims Sue Citynew

Blacksburg, Va., faces 25 possible lawsuits related to the campus shooting.

C-Ville Weekly | Allison Cintins | 11-14-2007 | Disasters

Tags: Virginia, tech, disasters

Rutherford Institute Fights for Religious Pot Usenew

Since the early '70s, Carl Eric Olsen has been a member of the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church, a religious group that holds that marijuana is a sacrament, and whose members smoke it all day, every day.

C-Ville Weekly | J. Tobias Beard | 11-07-2007 | Drugs

Tags: Drugs

Cities Ask Virginia to Cap Payday Lending at 36 Percentnew

Currently, most lenders charge borrowers $15 interest for every $100 borrowed -- per week. The APR on these loans can balloon to 391 percent, trapping borrowers in a vicious cycle of debt.

C-Ville Weekly | Scott Weaver | 11-07-2007 | Economy

Tags: Economic Issues