UVA political analyst Larry Sabato says this is likely a ticket election, meaning, as goes the governor’s race, so shall the rest down-ballot including the race for lieutenant governor.
J. Miles Coleman of UVA’s Center for Politics cited a 2009 campaign appearance by Mr. Obama for former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, who eventually lost to Republican Chris Christie. “They wouldn’t be bringing out the heavy hitters unless they needed to,” Coleman said. “I’ve seen many struggling campaigns go this route.”
“It’s still close enough that it won’t take a large shift for Youngkin to pull off an upset, and that will have national implications,” says longtime Virginia politics watcher Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “The perception is that [Virginia] is bluer than it is – and that’s why a Youngkin upset would be devastating” for Democrats, he adds.
Kyle Kondik, election analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, said the state’s gubernatorial race has a long history of breaking against whichever party controls the White House. “There’s a bit of a handicap for being the White House party candidate in this race,” he said. Pundits shouldn’t put too much focus on the Virginia race as a harbinger for next year, Kondik said.
It’s not altogether uncommon for a local government to experience this type of instability, said Charles Hartgrove, the director of the Virginia Institute of Government at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. And when it does, the first major issue a government will experience is an inability to execute long term plans. “When you’re looking at strategic planning in the organization, the long term goals that the elected body has set out, someone sitting in the chair as the chief administrative officer can carry out the vision for council,” Hartgrove said. “Most communities that have a...
Ruth Mason, a UVA tax law professor, said Ireland would avoid a state aid claim by making sure that its planned two-tiered tax system is clearly linked to whatever EU directive the commission proposes for implementing the international tax deal. “There’s an interpretation of EU law that regards directives as not being an action by a member state. So essentially directives are exempt from state aid review,” Mason said. If the country’s tax plans match the directive, then Ireland is “going to be fine on state aid,” she said.
(Subscription may be required) Traditionalists are sniffing disapprovingly at the bifurcated view, saying the statue should be viewed in its entirety. “The decision to display the copy of the David from the top is utterly ridiculous,” said Paul Barolsky, a retired UVA art professor, who has studied the sculpture’s history. “It has nothing to do with how the statue was meant to be seen originally….Why not show the work upside down?”
Douglas Laycock is the Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and is a staunch supporter of religious exemptions. However, he does not support a religious exemption to COVID vaccine mandates for many reasons and he thinks the courts would agree.
A committee of scientific advisers to the Food and Drug Administration is meeting on Thursday and Friday to examine the available data on using additional doses of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines to boost immunity. The panel includes Dr. Michael Nelson, a professor of medicine at UVA and president of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology.
Landscape architecture has never quite gotten the adulation of capital-A architecture, but perhaps a new prize can help change that – especially since it’s being given to an innovative designer who’s been respectfully referred to as “the toxic beauty queen of brownfield remediation.” The inaugural winner of the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize is Julie Bargmann, a professor at the University of Virginia and founder of a studio called D.I.R.T – Dump It Right There. The award, announced today by the Cultural Landscape Foundation, is intended to confer the statu...
(By Nicholas Sargen, lecturer in the Darden School of Business) Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, policymakers have had their hands full dealing with the fallout from global supply-chain shortages. More recently, they have confronted yet another challenge as global energy prices have surged to their highest levels in several years.
(By Michael Lenox, Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business, and Becky Duff, senior researcher for the Batten Institute) Forest fires in California. Drought in the Southwest. Hurricanes in the Gulf. Flooding in New Jersey. Recent months have been filled with the deadly impact of extreme weather. Weather that scientists tell us is increasingly driven by climate change. With each new calamity, calls increase to better prepare for a future of frequent deadly weather events. But while such adaptation is surely going to be needed, if we don’t mitigate the underlying problem, reducing the emissions of gr...
The University of Virginia Cancer Center has joined a national effort to increase racial and ethnic diversity in cancer treatment clinical trials.
A new discovery about osteoporosis suggests a potential treatment target for that brittle-bone disease and for bone loss from rheumatoid arthritis. The findings from University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators help explain why specialized bone cells called osteoclasts begin to break down more bone than the body replaces. With more research, scientists one day may be able to target that underlying cause to prevent or treat bone loss.
Spillmann reached out to researchers at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, which developed a data dashboard for state and local health officials soon after Virginia reported its first cases. The reports include information on mobility, drawn from anonymized cell phone data collected by a company called SafeGraph, showing where and when Virginians were traveling to help understand the impact of safety restrictions. “They were looking for new sites and thought this particular data offered something new and fresh,” said Madhav Marathe, director of the institute’s Network Systems Science and Advanced ...