4Better Or Worse


4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Nov 13th, 2008 1 comments Most historic: Barack Obama is elected 44th president, the first African-American to hold that job, winning in a landslide November 4. Most astounding upset: Ivy Dem Tom Perriello leads by 745...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Nov 6th, 2008 1 comments Least surprising conclusion: Two-hour parking spaces downtown are in high demand, a survey by the Raleigh, North Carolina, firm Martin Alexiou Bryson determines, and 20 percent of the parkers...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Oct 30th, 2008 0 comments Biggest shortfall: Albemarle County is looking at a $4.9 million deficit, up from $4.1 million in early September, and county teachers may miss raises, Brandon Shulleeta reports in the Daily Progress...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Oct 23rd, 2008 0 comments Biggest plunge: Gas prices drop an average of 27 cents over the weekend, from $3.26 October 17 to $2.99 October 20, Brian McNeill reports in the Daily Progress. Despite plummeting prices all over the...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Oct 16th, 2008 0 comments Worst déjà vu: The stock market plunges almost like it's 1929. Deepest cuts: Governor Tim Kaine announces layoffs of 570 state employees and slashes UVA's budget by 7 percent in...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Oct 9th, 2008 2 comments Worst spate of homicides: Joshua Lee Gibson, 20, dies September 30 from a knife attack at Friendship Court and a 44-year-old man is wounded. Lamont Jermaine Blakey, 26, is charged with first-degree...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Oct 2nd, 2008 0 comments Closest crash to home: Citigroup buys Wachovia stock, priced at $52 per share a year ago, for about a buck a share. The North Carolina-based Wachovia purchased local institution Jefferson National...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Sep 25th, 2008 0 comments Biggest sticker shock (nationally): Federal money men call for a $700 billion bailout of bad mortgages. Biggest sticker shock (locally): Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority announces that a $37.5...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Sep 18th, 2008 0 comments Most disastrous weekend: Hurricane Ike slams the east coast of Texas and takes out Galveston, while Wall Street reels from the bankruptcy of venerable banking house Lehman Brothers, sending the Dow...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Sep 11th, 2008 5 comments Best protest: UVA students hold blank pieces of paper at the September 6 UVA-University of Richmond game to demonstrate their disapproval of the athletic department's ban on signs. Rowdiest: Football...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Sep 4th, 2008 0 comments Most inadequate yearly progress: Nine public schools flunk No Child Left Behind Act standards. In Albemarle, Agnor-Hurt and Greer Elementary schools, and all the county's middle schools– Burley...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Aug 28th, 2008 0 comments Most ominous sign: UVA bans signs at all athletic events, and many wonder if the prohibition was inspired by David Becker's "Fire Groh" sign at a football game last year. Brian McNeill has the story...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Aug 21st, 2008 2 comments Latest Meadowcreek Parkway development: City Council approves 3-2 a diamond-shaped grade interchange and temporary construction easements at its August 18 meeting. Latest shootings: Two men walk into...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Aug 14th, 2008 0 comments Worst edu-cruise: Students Allison Routman, 21, and Mark Gruntz, 20, are expelled from UVA's Semester at Sea program for alleged plagiarism, kicked off the ship in Athens, and left to find their own...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jul 31st, 2008 0 comments Worst watershed: The Rivanna River's, according to nonprofit StreamWatch. A majority of streams in its watershed fail Department of Environmental Quality standards, and their quality has declined...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jul 24th, 2008 0 comments Most violent weekend: Six people are arrested in two shootings that may be gang related. Joshua Anthony "Spanky" Magruder, 19, is found dead around 3am July 19 in the 700 block of Sixth Street SE....
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jul 17th, 2008 3 comments Lamest legislature: For the second year in a row– in a state with crumbling infrastructure and roads unfunded– Virginia's General Assembly fails to come up with a transportation plan. "I...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jul 10th, 2008 0 comments Speediest speed limit reduction: At a July 1 meeting of angry Forest Lakes residents who wanted something done at the U.S. 29/Ashwood Boulevard where 16-year-old Sydney Aichs was killed when a...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jul 3rd, 2008 1 comments Biggest coup for Monticello: President George Bush decides to speak at the July 4 naturalization ceremony, bumping previously scheduled documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Biggest hassle for ...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jun 19th, 2008 0 comments Worst way to get a girlfriend: A 13-year-old girl disappears June 20 from the Downtown Mall, and police believe she's with Eleno M. Garcia, 29, a resident of the 600 block of Bolling Avenue, who is...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jun 19th, 2008 0 comments Worst way to get a girlfriend: A 13-year-old girl disappears June 20 from the Downtown Mall, and police believe she's with Eleno M. Garcia, 29, a resident of the 600 block of Bolling Avenue, who is...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jun 12th, 2008 0 comments Biggest sticker shock: Charlottesville sees its first $4 a gallon gas prices over the weekend. Stormiest: June 4 starts with thunder and lightning around 4:30am, and another tempest hits around 7:...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jun 5th, 2008 0 comments Most shocking shooting: Aziz Damar Booth, 11, is killed June 3 in a 6 1/2 Street residence. Most indictments: Albemarle's grand jury charges Waynesboro trucker Kenneth Barbour, 54, with involuntary...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on May 29th, 2008 0 comments Worst crash: The driver of a teal '93 Geo Metro, who was being pursued by a Louisa County deputy sheriff for reckless driving and having no tags, is killed when he crashes into a tree on Route 22 in...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on May 22nd, 2008 0 comments Deadliest crash: Five family members die early May 18 on a Bremo Bluff Road in a car driven by Joseph Alfred Scruggs, 36, of Huntersville, North Carolina, according to Virginia State Police. Dead are...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on May 15th, 2008 0 comments Worst Friday morning: Sixteen-year-old Sydney Aichs is struck and fatally injured by a tractor-trailer on U.S. 29 north as she leaves her Forest Lakes South neighborhood May 9 to go to Albemarle High...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on May 8th, 2008 1 comments Worst domestic dispute: Madison residents Cynthia D. Nicholson and Manuel Paul Nicholson Jr. are found dead in their home May 2 in an apparent murder-suicide. Worst OD: Gordonsville mother of five-...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on May 1st, 2008 0 comments Stormiest weather: Three tornadoes cut a 25-mile path of destruction through southeast Virginia April 28, so far killing one and injuring more than 200. Governor Tim Kaine declares an emergency....
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Apr 24th, 2008 0 comments Worst disappearance: Buford Middle School student Lorena Sanchez-Toledo, 12, at press time has been missing since April 15 and is believed to be with Jeremias Chagala-Mil, 31, and to be in danger....
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Apr 17th, 2008 0 comments Biggest same-sex custody case: Two women joined in a 2000 civil union in Vermont– Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins– face off in the Virginia Supreme Court April 17 over custody of their five...