Alumna Tammy Snyder Murphy opens up about making a difference, her husband Gov. Phil Murphy and why New Jersey feels like home.
(By Katherine Firsching, a third-year media studies and English major) When I finalized my summer internship plans earlier this year, I did not foresee all the lifestyle adjustments I would need to make in order to become a successful adult in the workforce. I’d had summer jobs before – camp counselor, kayak shop booking agent, nanny, etc. – but nothing resembling an actual career. I figured it couldn’t be that hard of a transition. I was excited to embark into the marketing field and gain valuable experience for the future. But after a few days on the job, I discovered the college habits I’d ...
The 8th District seat is among the two dozen or so that could decide control of the U.S. House next year. With Reichert’s retirement, it has been rated a “tossup” by national political analysts. “I don’t think WA-8 is a ‘must-win’ for House Democrats, but certainly you’d think the Democrats will need to win many seats that are like it — open seats that Hillary Clinton carried in 2016,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan elections-and-politics newsletter published by the University of Virginia.
Talk of a "blue wave" being blunted in Ohio has been the narrative for months, but the close race may prove the Buckeye State isn't on totally solid ground for Republicans. "It's one more piece of evidence amidst a lot of others that this is a good environment for Democrats, and it provides some opportunities to the party in the fall," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Part of the Republican advantage in these otherwise blue states comes down to fundamentals. Even as New England has become bedrock Democratic territory in federal elections, voters have regularly elected GOP governors, if only as a check on big Democratic legislative majorities. “Combining that with the strong personal appeal of Charlie Baker and Phil Scott, it’s no wonder that not only are they strongly positioned for reelection, but also that they have crowded out potentially strong challengers from entering their respective races,” says Kyle Kondik, who tracks gubernatorial contests at the ...
President Donald Trump has been predicting a "red wave." Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said there's no basis for the president's predictions. "I think he's wrong, because if you take the last century, there's actually only been two midterm elections, the first midterm election of a new president, Franklin Roosevelt in 1934 and George W. Bush in 2002, where the president's party, the White House party, actually gained a few seats in the house," Sabato said Tuesday on CNN's "OutFront." "And it was just a few in both cases. It's extremely unlikely that ...
Balderson's likely single-point win "would still be a big under-performance of the president who won it by 11," noted Geoffrey Skelley, with the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Ohio native Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics said the district should have been an easier win for the GOP. The district, he said, “contains some of the most bedrock Republican turf in the state and this basically could have went either way. The GOP likely keeps the seat but the result is very much in line with what we’ve seen all over the country in special elections this cycle: Democrats often running well ahead of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 performance,” he said. “I don’t think this was a particularly impressive showing for Republicans.”
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said the probe's outcome is what matters. "Does this matter at the end of the day to most people? Probably not," he said. "It really depends on what the special prosecutor finds."
Firefighters are a perennial target of free-market economists. One of the most memorable anecdotes from my introductory economics course at the University of Virginia, taught by the prolific Kenneth Elzinga, had to do with firefighters. Elzinga asked the class if they had noticed that the fire department seemed to respond to any 911 call, no matter the actual need. He then argued that the number of firefighters far outweighs the public necessity for their services, as the number of fires had significantly declined. He’s right: since the mid-1980s, fires across the country have dropped by about...
The Associated Press reporter on the phone with Jalane Schmidt wanted two voices for her article: One would be Jason Kessler, the white supremacist who organized the Unite the Right rally here last year that left one dead and dozens injured. The other, the reporter hoped, would be Schmidt herself, a Black Lives Matter activist and associate professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. The story would be a debate, of sorts. Both sides would be represented. “Hell no,” Schmidt said after she hung up.
Some Wall Street analysts and consumer advocates say it would be softer on brokerage businesses and insurance companies than the Obama-era measure and wouldn’t allow for investor lawsuits. “Disproportionally, senior citizens who risk being steered into high-cost annuities or other questionable products are the ones who would benefit from a broad fiduciary duty for retirement assets,” said Quinn Curtis, a professor at the University of Virginia law school who has researched retirement accounts. Seniors “will be the ones who are most vulnerable.”
U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated a prominent Indian-American law professor and legal expert to an agency on privacy and civil liberties. Aditya Bamzai, a professor at University of Virginia's School of Law, has been nominated by Trump to be a member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board for the remainder of a six-year term expiring Jan. 29, 2020.
(Commentary by Anita Grabowska, master’s degree candidate in the Curry School of Education, and Nancy Deutsch, director of Youth-Nex, the UVA Center to Promote Effective Youth Development) Even when all children are at last reunited with their parents, the administration’s work is far from over. Its “zero-tolerance,” zero-compassion policy has caused thousands of youth to experience severe trauma.
(Commentary by Robert C. Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education) The Trump administration’s approach to policymaking often rests on ambiguous justifications and minimal, if any, supporting evidence. Regardless of the arena — whether it be trade, immigration, foreign policy, healthcare or education — we’ve seen the administration ignore, or worse, undermine fundamental facts that contradict its aims. Perhaps it should be no surprise, then, that one of the most identifiable K-12 policies to come out of the Department of Education follows a similar pattern.
(Commentary co-written by Brian Williams, visiting professor of public policy) Smith College has opened an investigation into a July 31 incident in which a staff employee called campus police on a black student who supposedly “seemed to be out of place.” It turns out the student, Oumou Kanoute, who had a summer job with the college, was simply eating lunch in a common area. This incident did not happen in isolation. It is just the latest in a string of cases referred to as profiling by proxy – instances where police are summoned to a situation by a biased caller.
Officials at the UVA Medical Center and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital say they’re trying to logistically and mentally prepare for a worst-case scenario to happen again.
University of Virginia President James Ryan sent a letter to the community on Tuesday addressing the university's preparations for the upcoming weekend.
A University of Virginia commission that spent years studying slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s university just dropped its damning report, which concludes “slavery, in every way imaginable, was central to the project of designing, funding, building, and maintaining the school.” But it’s just the beginning of the work at UVA – and at dozens of other universities now searching for ways to atone for their past.
(By Julia Payne, a fourth-year student interning with the High Atlas Foundation in Marrakech, Morocco) Aug. 12, 2018 marks the 18th celebration of the U.N.’s annual International Youth Day. This awareness day is a unique opportunity to reflect on youth’s challenges and to celebrate and support the world’s future leaders. This year’s theme, “Safe Spaces for Youth,” marks the importance of youth’s engagement, participation, and freedom of thought.