CvilleDave

The Sierra Club is the oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization in the United States. Its members do their homework and tak...

Here's a great example of what can happen from a Sister City relationship. The Semester at Sea program, based here at UVa, docked in ...

I firmly believe that fifty years from now, it will be a foregone conclusion that the smart nations were the ones wh...

In case you didn't hear the news this week, Cville City Schools have cut our high school dropout rate almost in half over the past two...

One of the main reasons so many people are opposed to a huge (and, arguably, unnecessary) expansion of the Ragged Mountain Reservoir is that...

The water supply resolution adopted unanimously by City Council this Monday night would result in a plan that not only provides abundant wa...

City Council is on the verge of making some major decisions regarding our City-owned reservoirs and our region’s long-term water supply pl...

Next Monday, Sept. 20, there will be a public hearing at our City Council meeting (7pm in Council chambers, City Hall) on how best to procee...

Nelson County resident Kia Scherr lost her daughter and her husband in the Mumbai terrorist attacks on November 26, 2008. In other words,...

Small businesses are the leading engines of job creation in our economy. I'm proud of the fact that the City of Cville has ramped up s...

What happens when you let pedestrians and bicyclists take over a stretch of West Main Street, allow all the merchants to set up vending boo...

Nine years ago today, Muslim religious extremists attacked our country in order to foment Holy War. In some ways they got exactly what they ...

Charlottesville named 9th "Brainiest City" in the U.S. -- http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-s tories/20...

The Housing Authority has taken another big step in the process of revitalizing public housing in Charlottesville and thereby improving th...

Huge news coming out of LEAP today: "The Local Energy Alliance Program based in Charlottesville has been award...

Bama Works Mother-Daughter Luncheon to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge Saturday, May 15 - Twelve Noon Seven Oaks...

I'm very happy to hear of this effort: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/23/bring-solar-panels-back-t_n_550059.html In the meantime...

The most recent edition of the Virginia Municipal League's monthly magazine, Virginia Town & City , highlights this blog as an examp...

Sip for Kids' Sake: It's one of the easiest (and most enjoyable) benefit events you'll attend all year -- all you do is show up...

This coming Saturday, March 27, there's a huge 10-family rummage sale up in Forest Lakes South to benefit the Special Hope Network , a C...