OK, so you don’t ride around in your car carrying a laptop with secret, sensitive information. (Or do you?) Still, you should be concerned about protecting your valuables from theft, even if those valuables are “just” a run-of-the-mill iPod or a camera containing irreplaceable family photos. Here are some tips from several law enforcement agencies and safety sites:
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May 09, 2008
OK, so you don’t ride around in your car carrying a laptop with secret, sensitive information. (Or do you?) Still, you should be concerned about protecting your valuables from theft, even if those valuables are “just” a run-of-the-mill iPod or a camera containing irreplaceable family photos. Here are some tips from several law enforcement agencies and safety sites:
May 08, 2008
Don’t shoot the cougars. Not that there are any cougars in our neck of the woods — not officially, at least.
May 07, 2008
The university area looks to be losing another mid-sized concert hall, with the announced closure of Satellite Ballroom on the Corner. Charlottesville has seen the rise and fall of several medium-sized, student-focused, concert-dance spaces.
May 06, 2008
It’s one of the most basic of rules: Don’t leave valuables in your automobile in plain sight.
May 05, 2008
On one coast, the collapse of salmon fishing. On the other, the collapse of crab harvesting. On both coasts, emergency efforts to prevent the collapse of the species.
May 04, 2008
A homeless shelter will close in Charlottesville. A trailer park will shutter in Fluvanna, creating new homelessness.
May 03, 2008
Hooray for the hero! Slap him on the back and buy him a round of … um … dog biscuits. A black Labrador retriever named Guinness saved his family from fire last week with his persistent barking.
May 02, 2008
Robert Fulghum returned to kindergarten for inspiration — why not UVa? A University of Virginia group staged what used to be called “a happening” this week, based on a theme as unpretentious as show and tell.
May 01, 2008
Government by gridlock? Surely, we can do better. Progress on the Meadowcreek Parkway has stalled again, this time over design of the interchange at McIntire Road and the U.S. 250 Bypass. Charlottesville City Council rejected a proposed design — but lacks consensus over what should replace it.
April 30, 2008
We’ve said it before, but it’s worth saying again: Sen. John Warner is, as Chuck Robb described him, a “true Virginia gentleman.” We reject the pessimistic idea that his is a disappearing breed, but truth be told there are few leaders left of his stature and strength. And few, too, with his longevity.
April 29, 2008
It was sad to lose a pre-Revolutionary War home in Schuyler to a fire recently. But it was appalling to learn that a pre-Revolutionary War building in Zion Crossroads had been given up for destruction. Enter rescuers Diane and Paul Manning. Historic Hall’s Tavern dates to the 1750s; it was a stop for travelers between Richmond and Charlottesville.
April 28, 2008
Thirty days to win better rail service? Well, let’s get moving. Improved passenger service to Washington has long been a goal of rail advocates and ordinary passengers alike. The one daily D.C. train that now serves Charlottesville and points north and south is typically booked so far in advance on weekdays that many travelers can’t get a seat. Amtrak did try adding extra seating a few years back. But the cars that it used to provide that capacity were described by commuters as atrocious.
April 27, 2008
Hindsight is perfect, so it should be clear by now that the U.S. 29 Main Street concept is not working as well as it should and that a bypass ought to have been constructed around Charlottesville. True, a bypass route once was chosen, and the Virginia Department of Transportation even went so far as to start buying up rights-of-way. But it was the wrong route. The so-called close-in bypass was ultimately doomed by politics. But had it been built, it would not have solved the community’s traffic problems.
April 26, 2008
Virginia has some pretty cool place names, but Alaska may have us beat. Can we match Dakeekathlrimjingia Point or Nunathloogagamiutbingoi Dunes? A Virginia resident may be the authority on Alaska place names. Donald Orth compiled the “Dictionary of Alaska Place Names” in 1967 for the U.S. Geological Survey, for which he worked as a geographer and cartographer.
April 25, 2008
Foxfield is becoming increasingly pro-active in its efforts to curb illegal drinking at the spring event so popular with the college crowd. And that’s excellent. At last spring’s races, 85 people were arrested — 84 in the student section. Last year, emergency medical technicians treated 107 people — 106 for alcohol-related symptoms. Those statistics tell the story about what’s one of the major problems at the Foxfield Races and who are the major problem-makers.
April 24, 2008
Charlottesville City Council is to be commended for its willingness to try something new to address the affordable housing problem. Council will make $1 million available to private developers from its economic development fund in the form of loans. The fund usually is targeted toward traditional development projects such as businesses — even though the businesses themselves might not be conventional (the Pavilion is an example).
April 23, 2008
“We have to find the right balance between regulation and market demands,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, recently returned from a visit to Asia amid controversy over defective products coming from China. Events prove that balance remains elusive. The problem of a contaminated blood thinner containing an ingredient made in China has expanded into a worldwide health risk.
April 22, 2008
That was a generous compromise the Charlottesville Board of Zoning Appeals extended toward Hope House. The board affirmed that the homeless shelter is operating illegally in a residential neighborhood. It would have been within its rights to allow city staff to shut the organization down, as staff had proposed. Instead, the board ordered a delay of action while Hope House seeks a special exemption from City Council.
April 21, 2008
An investigation has found improprieties in the handling of a contract to promote the Thunderbirds aerial stunt team. Improper influence and preferential treatment marred the award of the $50 million contract. Improper influence is bad enough. But what about the contract itself? The improper influence finding results from the actions of several senior Air Force officers, one of whom praised one of the contract bidders to the review panel that was supposed to be making an objective decision.
April 20, 2008
Despite no easy “successes” in the past two-plus years, Virginia was right to start — and continue — a massive DNA project retesting old samples for new evidence in violent crimes. The project began under Gov. Mark Warner, following a handful of exonerations based on review of DNA evidence. The first was that of a Hanover County man who had spent 15 years in prison for a rape he insisted he did not commit.
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