(Commentary by Saikrishna Prakash, law professor and Miller Center senior fellow) President Biden and former president Donald Trump are locked in another fierce battle – this one not involving electoral votes, but rather whether a president may invoke and insist upon “executive privilege” even after he has left office, in defiance of his successor.
(Podcast) UVA political science chair Jennifer Lawless appeared as the Biden administration scrambled to roll out a new framework for a $1.85 trillion reconciliation bill, as the centerpiece of the President’s agenda – a bipartisan infrastructure package – also hangs in the balance.
From the beginning, Babylon Micro-Farms CEO [and UVA grad] Alexander Olesen has sought to make vertical farming accessible to mainstream markets. Combining subscription services with advanced technology and innovative equipment, the Babylon Micro-Farms “all-in-one” farming experience does just that for a growing customer base, including universities, hospitals, restaurants, resorts, senior care facilities and more.
Suffolk couple Ron and Sarah Morton [both UVA alumni] started Lockgreen, a business selling lockboxes for marijuana users to comply with state law when transporting cannabis.
(Press release) Jennifer Reut has been promoted to editor in chief of Landscape Architecture Magazine, the award-winning monthly magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects. She becomes only the third woman to head the magazine since its founding in 1910. Reut, who holds a master’s and a doctorate in architectural history from the University of Virginia, is also a practicing architectural landscape historian.
When Thomas Base graduated from the Booz Allen Hamilton Family Center, a Bright Horizons child care center operated for the employees of Booz Allen Hamilton consultancy firm in McLean, VA, he had no idea that he would be back years later working as a full-time consultant for the firm. Thomas attended the Booz Allen Hamilton Family Center as a toddler up until kindergarten and recently graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Biology and a minor in Psychology. He was hired by Booz Allen as consultant in the Health market this past summer.
Plaintiff Elizabeth Sines, identified in the complaint as a second-year law student at the University of Virginia, recorded a video of herself in that moment to document the attack. The video was played in the courtroom Thursday. “A car ran through! OK, I’m reporting, OK, OK, a car, oh, I’m so sorry,” she said, pausing and putting her hand over her mouth. She started to cry, and her hand was shaking. “A car ran through the crowd.”
He added that nothing fires up Democrats like Trump. “Youngkin is sitting on dynamite, and he’s hoping it won’t blow before November 2,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “And maybe it won’t, or maybe it will.”
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe was joined by state Senator Jennifer McClellan for a campaign stop in Charlottesville on Thursday. The University of Virginia Center for Politics speculates that McAuliffe might not be getting the independent voters he needs, since he has already served one term as governor. The center say independents may be thinking the grass could be greener on the other side, or that McAuliffe already had his chance.
A FOX News poll of likely voters shows Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin has an eight-point lead over Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe. But experts from the University of Virginia Center for Politics say this poll doesn’t include registered voters, so it’s hard to tell how accurate it is.
“If he could ever have gotten another Republican nomination, he would have been back in office,” University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said of Mr. Holton. “The party wouldn’t nominate him. They had gone well to the right of Linwood Holton and kept moving.”
(Commentary) Creating a military just powerful enough to establish an Asian sphere of influence affords China sufficient strategic power without being excessive. Some may call this a brilliant master plan; the reality is that Beijing is simply making the most rational moves for a country in its position. Melvyn Leffler, a history professor at the University of Virginia, contends that China’s foreign policy behavior is similar to the U.S.’s Monroe Doctrine. As a country approaches regional hegemony, it becomes advantageous to create a sphere of influence and expel potential adversaries from the...
(Commentary) Today’s dominant farming techniques have “disrupted the nitrogen cycle even more than the carbon cycle,” University of Virginia environmental sciences professor James Galloway, a leading authority, explained to me.
(Transcript) For at least one longtime local activist, this case is clear-cut. Jalane Schmidt, who is also a professor here at the University of Virginia, says it was obvious when many of these far-right groups began gathering in town long before the infamous rally. JALANE SCHMIDT: To me, it seems obvious that this was a conspiracy, meaning they were planning this, you know, for months. We saw it here in Charlottesville. We saw it in our streets - a very steady escalation. So yeah, I think there’s plenty of evidence.
(Commentary by David Ramadan, resident scholar at UVA’s Center for Politics) Glenn Youngkin has a small number of plans based on little more than dog-whistle rhetoric favored by the divisive former president. On the other side, Terry McAuliffe has the experience, fortitude, and vision – over 20 plans to take Virginia forward.
Erik Shannon will become the interim CEO of University of Virginia Community Health on Nov. 5, the network announced Thursday. UVA Community Health is a network of outpatient services across Culpeper and Northern Virginia, with UVA Culpeper Medical Center, UVA Haymarket Medical Center and UVA Prince William Medical Center.
Hospital administrators and human resources executives are seeing nurses retire early, transition into nonclinical roles or leave staff jobs for higher-paying travel nurse positions. “A surprising number are leaving health care altogether, which is really breaking my heart,” says Wendy Horton, CEO of the UVA Medical Center. UVA Health’s voluntary turnover rate among registered nurses this September was 19.1% – significantly higher than the 10% to 12% rate Horton is accustomed to seeing at the hospital. “This is the first time in my career that I have seen this type of turnover,” she says.
A mass exodus of medical professionals is impacting health care centers around the state and nation. It started earlier this year with many experts citing burnout from the coronavirus pandemic. Last week’s report from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute warned that COVID-19 and the flu – combined with staffing struggles – could push state hospitals to capacity in the winter months.
In a 1999 article published by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, Holton called his efforts to promote civil rights “the greatest source of satisfaction and pride for me. … It is well-known that in my [gubernatorial] Inaugural address I announced to the world that the ‘era of defiance is behind us,’” he said of his push for racial equality. “I asked that we ‘make today’s Virginia a model of race relations based ... on an aristocracy of ability, regardless of race, color or creed.’”