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BRYAN MCKENZIE The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress It started with a few rocks dribbling onto the pavement from above and ended with tons of soil, rock and debris shutting the road down. Rockfish Gap Turnpike, also known as U.S. 250, was shut down Monday as chunks of greenstone bedrock broke free and slid down the steep mountain side sandwiched between Interstate 64 and the turnpike. Crews on the scene have been working all week to remove the original slide material and pulling dow...

The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress Morally, Nelson County landowners are spot-on: Their property rights, surrendered under threat of eminent domain, should be returned to them. Following approval of corporate plans to build a 600-mile natural gas pipeline from West Virginia, through much of Virginia, and into North Carolina, developers were given the right to exercise eminent domain to acquire land for the project. Eminent domain is the process by which governments or private enti...

BY TYLER HAMMEL The Daily Progress The Lee statue in downtown Charlottesvilles Emancipation Park was covered Wednesday by city crews after a City Council vote. The city of Charlottesville has received an official mandate from the Supreme Court of Virginia, clearing the way for the removal of two downtown Confederate statues. Earlier this month, the state Supreme Court sided with the city in its appeal of a Charlottesville Circuit Court ruling that found that the City Council violate...

Maria Chavalan Sut Finds New Hope After 2 Yrs in Sanctuary A Guatemalan woman given sanctuary in a Charlottesville church for more than two years has received a one-year stay of removal from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials who had sought to deport her. Maria Chavalan Sut, 46, came to the U.S. in 2015 after land grabbers threatened her family and later set her home on fire with the family inside. She and her four children survived, but all of their belongings burned. She sought...

BRYAN MCKENZIE The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress The University of Virginia Health System will release liens and judgments filed against most middle- and lower-income patients and limit patients’ financial liability for catastrophic medical care as part of new billing policies that focus on a patient’s ability to pay. Health System officials also will create an ombudsman position to assist patients with disputes and redesign intake and appointment scheduling to inform p...

University of Virginia Health has new billing policies Associated Press 4 hrs ago CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia Health System has announced new billing policies that focus on a patient’s ability to pay. The Daily Progress reports that the health system will release liens and judgements filed against most middle- and lower-income patients. It also will limit patients’ financial liability for catastrophic medical care. Health System officials will create an omb...

BRYAN MCKENZIE The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress The University of Virginia Health System will release liens and judgments filed against most middle- and lower-income patients and limit patients’ financial liability for catastrophic medical care as part of new billing policies that focus on a patient’s ability to pay. Health System officials also will create an ombudsman position to assist patients with disputes and redesign intake and appointment scheduling to inform p...

As part of his memorandum opinion, Moon summarized the arguments as presented by Bhattacharya. According to the plaintiff, the lawsuit was spurred by a series of events that Bhattacharya claims began with a panel discussion about microaggressions and ended with his suspension and eventual expulsion. Per the opinion, in November 2018, Bhattacharya attended a panel on microaggressions led by UVa professor Beverly Colwell Adams. The panel began with Adams giving a roughly 17-minute presentation ab...

ALLISON WRABEL The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress The James River Water Authority this week will start the process of evaluating an alternative site for a water intake station that had been planned for Point of Fork, the location of Rassawek, the historic capitol of the Monacan Nation. An archaeological resources survey will soon begin at the site in Fluvanna County. The James River Water Authority will be sending letters over the next week to property owners near the James River ...

BRYAN MCKENZIE The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority partners with Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling and Restoration Program to bag up recycled oysters collected from restaurants and homes that will later be returned to the Chesapeake Bay. Bryan McKenzie Plucked, shucked and chucked into a pile, oyster shells gathered from area restaurants were shoveled, bagged and shipped off to the Piankatank River on Thursday to provide oysters with shel...