A call for health care intervention from an unlikely source: Charlottesville's top libertarian

Jan 20

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The week in review
Most surprising political maneuver: Attorney General Jerry Kilgore announces his resignation effective February 1 to focus on raising money for his run for governor and to ...

The Dish

Capshaw goes Loco: Another eatery joins the dynasty
The word is still out on Station, but Dish knows for certain that Barbara Shifflett's other restaurant, Mono Loco, is now in the possession of Dave Matthews Band man...

Essays

Fornication 86ed: Virginia enters the Twentieth Century
When the Virginia Supreme Court ruled in the otherwise obscure case of Martin v. Ziherl on January 14, it belatedly brought the Commonwealth into the 20th century. H...

Question of the Week

What's been your highest medical bill?
Tracy Bedsole: "$2,000." Sajid Vohra: "$50,000 for a tumor in my leg." Joel E. Morris: "My health hasn't caused me to have many medical problems; however, for t...

Real Estate - Off the Block

Off the Block!- SOLD
APPEARED IN THE HOOK: August 26, 2004 in issue 0334 ADDRESS: 3141 Proffit Road DAYS TO CONTRACT: 150 ASKING: $389,000 SOLD FOR: $305,000 LISTED BY: Roger Voisinet, R...

Real Estate - On the Block

Hooville duplex: Live like a landlord-- or not
ADDRESS: 2401 Fontaine Avenue ASKING: $ 399,500 BUILDING: 2322 fin. sq. ft., 900 sq. ft. unfin. LAND: 0.42 acres YEAR BUILT: 1925 NEIGHBORHOOD: Fry's Spring CURB APP...

DR. HooK

Hot stuff: Menopause could shake up fashions
Donna Sommers ruled the '80s. "Last Dance," "Bad Girls," and "Hot Stuff" blared from nearly every radio, the latter being an anthem for many women who go through men...

Movie Reviews

True grit: Hotel Rwanda shows horror, heroics
Just when I'd settled on Saw as the best horror film of 2004, along came Hotel Rwanda with its depiction of real-life horror on a grand scale. The choice isn't as si...

Music Reviews

Bluesy introduction: Only one #9
Fulton Patrick and the Fulltones with guitarist Arik VanBrocklin Fellini's No. 9January 14 Last Friday night was my first trip to the beautifully renovated Fellini's...
Deep purple: Station goes 'members' only
American Dumpster StationJanuary 16 "I think he's playing your theme song." She leaned in and spoke the words with a sly grin. I could barely hear her through the mu...

News

Hook tightening: Assembly targets LLC tax dodge
Sure, The Hook would like to take credit for two bills in the House of Delegates that close a tax loophole that lets rich guys buy and sell multi-million dollar properties ...
A rescuer laid to rest
July bullseye: Despite mud, 'Target' date set
NEWS- July bullseye: Despite mud, 'Target' date set Hollymead Town Center, Albemarle Place, and North Pointe have been promising to rock our shopping world for year...
Serial specter: Belmont attack renews rapist fears
She went out to walk her dog that night. The dog growled, and two men appeared in her driveway, identifying themselves as detectives from the Charlottesville Police Departm...
Two Unions? VRE could serve Charlottesville-D.C. by 2007
NEWS- Two Unions? VRE could serve Charlottesville-D.C. by 2007 The state's top railroad official is handing Charlottesville citizens a gift a Bristol senator recently deni...

The Brazen Careerist

Learn Excel: and other on-the-job math essentials
Most of us never had dreams of being a mathematician or economist; we suffered through algebra as a means to get to the senior prom. But if you think you're going to...

Sports Doctor

Strange But True

Legendary labor: How many babies is too many?
DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK BY BILL SONES AND RICH SONES, PH.D. Q. If Countess Margaret of the village of Henneberg, the Netherlands, didn't really give birth to 36...

Facetime

Radio head: Tucker is Charlottesville's ticket master
"I make it my business to like everything," he says. Even so, every once in a while he can't quite hide the twinkle in his eye, and you know he's hit a special one. ...

Hotseat

Supremo's court: Lucky rules the 216 stage
If somebody told you that Lucky Supremo was the name of a pantyhose-clad superhero, somebody lied.

Letters

Sports column needs help
This is a complaint about the "Sports Wrap" column, and what seems like a lack of support and respect for UVA athletics. In [the January 6] column, Kelly Watt blund...
Thanks for exposing Spencer's
Thanks to reporter Lisa Provence for the article on the offensive Spencer Gift's hat [January 6: Unsavory gag: Hat at Spencer's spurs boycott]– and thanks to Je...
Thanks for exposing Stevie Jay
Your Hotseat spread on Stevie Jay ["Breaking barriers," January 6] was arresting and powerful– and couldn't have been better timed in light of his upcoming show at Gr...
We tried to help Albo
Your article on the new political action committee, Virginia Family Values, [January 6: "Whose values? Lefty PAC fights for families"] mentioned our fight to stop Delegate ...

Full Stories List for January 20th, 2005 issue #0403

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