Three cheers for the Virginia State Police, teaming up with other organizations this week to implement Operation Safe Driver.

So much for the “Animal House” stereotype of the drunken college student.

Budget cuts will slow, but ought not derail, a plan by Piedmont Virginia Community College to use the old Monticello visitors’ center.

Simply wearing a message T-shirt or campaign button within a voting precinct’s hallowed boundary ought not be that big a deal.

It looks like the song “Stayin’ Alive” can help heart attack victims do exactly that.

Yet another example of federal deception has emerged from a congressional report involving FEMA and — even more shockingly — the Centers for Disease Control.

We just finished commemorating — in many ways are still commemorating — the founding of Virginia, and the nation, with this year’s Jamestown Quadricentennial.

Overshadowed by the financial crisis, the campaign, the war and other news, a quiet domestic victory occurred last week.

Declines in funding plus growth in costs are putting the brakes on the Eastern Connector — while Charlottesville-Albemarle needs better roads, more than ever. 

The fact that we now know our area high schools’ graduation rates is only part of the story.

Central Virginia’s most urban high school and its most rural have something in common:

Tom Cruise is one smoot.

It might be a relatively small financial victory, but it signals a new era in federal-state relations regarding transit.

More evidence of Charlottesville’s unique and admirable character was displayed last week at the 10th anniversary celebration for the local public defender office.

We might not be an agricultural society any longer, but agriculture has a powerful impact on the state’s economy.

We understand the difficulties.
But giving up on the Eastern Connector project would be a double blow to the community.

It was a winding trail back to Nevada — Nevada Smith, that is.

That’s an eye-popping story the Albemarle County Planning Commission has there: a developer who won a rezoning some 30 years ago and only recently started building — based on standards that are decades old.

No doubt about it: Virginia’s high school graduates must be more technologically competent than ever, if the U.S. workforce is to keep up with emerging nations such as India and China.

Amid the staggering market losses and the frightening prospects of life with an economy that has no $700 billion lifeline, we’re left with many more questions than answers, and a surplus of anxiety.

Matinee idol or cinema tough guy?

“We’ve just sort of been winging it.”

When it rains, it pours.

OK, so rumble strips get great reviews for keeping sleepy drivers awake and preventing wrecks. But as musical instruments they leave much to be desired.

Truckers may want to keep the hammer down. We’ll keep hammering away at the need for long-distance drivers to get enough sleep.

Charlottesville’s Sister Cities Commission seems to be taking both a creative and a common-sense approach to relationships with overseas cities. That’s a wise balance.

How money is parceled out to road and bridge projects is only part of Washington’s problem.

Last week, a convoy of police and rescue vehicles led the first convoy over the new Interstate 35 bridge in Minneapolis, not much more than a year after the old bridge collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145.

Out of your cube and into the street.

It’s heartwarming — but not unexpected — when an assistance dog saves a life. After all, that’s what they’re trained to do.