The Democratic effort should be viewed largely as a way of firing up a party base that needs a jolt for this fall’s election campaigns. “Democrats are using fear of Republicans to motivate their own people,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor at the political website Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia.
“It’s a historically sad day for Virginia. We’ve never had a governor convicted of a felony, and in the entire nation there has never been a governor and first lady of a state convicted,” said Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
“If Hillary Clinton doesn’t run in 2016, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Kirsten Gillibrand jump in,” says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “Gillibrand seems to have the ambition to do it.” ... “It’s always a bit amusing when a relatively junior senator decides to offer up an autobiography,” says U-Va.’s Sabato. “That means one thing: She’s interested in higher office.”
“For once, the GOP has no one who is arguably next-in-line – no crown prince – which is the way the party prefers to approach presidential nominations,” University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato told The Fiscal Times. “Just as important, this is a party badly divided and riven by factionalism.”Sabato this week conspicuously left blank a list of “first tier” potential Republican presidential candidates in his latest “Crystal Ball” political analysis.
Unlike the original convention, any new constitution deserves, needs, and requires as much popular input as possible. While the proposals that follow were written by me, many of these proposals have been made in other forms before. Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, proposed some parts of several of these articles, as have others. Calls for a new constitutional convention are ongoing for decades.
There is danger in making political headlines sound more significant than they are. This week’s example comes from an article published by Slate that attempts to scare the living daylights out of Americans by criticizing a recent Supreme Court decision. … University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett disagreed with the Supreme Court’s limitation. In an article thunderously headlined, “You Don’t Have the Right to Remain Silent,” Garrett described the ruling as “terrible — and dangerous.”
If the court agrees to take up the case both sides will submit briefs and present oral arguments within about eight to 10 months. The diocese has also retained Charlottesville lawyer and University of Virginia School of Law professor Daniel Ortiz to help handle the Supreme Court filing.
Healthcare Dive spoke to Mimi Riley of University of Virginia Law, who indicated that an en banc hearing is in the IRS' best interest: "It is possible that such an en banc decision in the DC circuit would likely favor the administration," said Riley.If it does seem that an en banc decision in favor of the administration is likely, according to Riley, then other plaintiffs with the same complaint may file similar cases in other courts to help keep the issue alive.
Recent national studies by University of Virginia researchers show that from 10 percent to 40 percent of students, depending on the school district, who are intending to go to college never show up. This phenomenon is called “summer melt.” Students from low-income families or who, like Hau, are first-generation college students are the most likely to melt away. The researchers found that at least one in five of these students is not enrolling.During that critical summer between high school and college, most students are left on their own to make the transition. Their high school co...
Two years after graduating from college, a significant portion of the class of 2009 was economically and professionally “adrift,” according to a new book by two well-respected educational researchers.
Many recent college graduates are struggling to become self-supporting adults, and their alma maters deserve some of the blame.That's the conclusion of a new book, "Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates," written by two sociologists who rocked the higher-education world in 2010 with blockbuster research that concluded that many students were learning next to nothing in college.Richard Arum of New York University and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia became household names in college circles several years ago when their original book, "Ac...
The events in Ferguson, Missouri reveal the ‘resegregation’ of America’s once-aspirational inner suburbs, which – far from the social utopias they were meant to be – have become ethnic enclaves: white in one pocket, black in another... Tale of two suburbs ... in this ‘racial dot map’ based on the 2010 census where white residents are blue dots and black residents green, Ferguson (top left, unmarked, just east of the airport) reveals itself as a segregated ‘ethnoburb’.Photograph: Dustin A Cable/Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, Univer...
... Some of the best pages in this book describe the motivations for throwing your body into the fray, of launching yourself into a hit that is bound to hurt. Does it take courage? Sure, but rage also helps.Edmundson turns to Homer for a comparison. In the Iliad Hector is a great warrior, a man of virtue and courage. He can "turn it off" when the battle is over. Not so Achilles, whose rage spills from war into everything else. It is, of course, Achilles who triumphs over Hector, but rage will exact its toll.
At age 86, educational theorist E.D. Hirsch is finally being rehabilitated. For nearly 30 years, he has been labeled a blue-blood elitist and arch-defender of the Dead White European Male. Now, the retired English professor is finding that his ideas, once dismissed wholesale by the educational establishment, are being credited as the intellectual foundation of the national reform movement that has swept the country in recent years, pushing expanded access to preschool and the Common Core state learning standards to improve the chances of America’s poorer children. It’s a welcome re...
... May 2011: Mrs. McDonnell tells Williams the McDonnells are in severe financial trouble. She tells Williams they need $15,000 to pay for catering at a daughter's wedding.Williams writes a $15,000 check for catering at Cailin McDonnell's wedding. He writes a second check, for $50,000, to Maureen McDonnell. Gov. McDonnell later says the catering was a gift to Cailin and the $50,000 was a loan.Williams writes Gov. McDonnell, asking him for Anatabloc studies at the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine.Gov. McDonnell and sons charge $2,380 to Wil...
Attorneys for former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, based their defense against federal corruption charges on the dysfunctional relationship between the former First Couple.The argument, which according to scuttlebutt tested well with focus groups, was the foundation of a defense that there was no way to establish a nexus between the loans and gifts from a friend who also happened to want to do business with the state government because Maureen McDonnell was the main point of contact with Jonnie Williams, the CEO of a pharmaceutical company who testified that he felt like h...
The evidence prosecutors saw as most damaging was a pair of emails, sent six minutes part, in which Bob McDonnell wrote to Williams asking about documents that would have finalized a $50,000 loan, and then shortly after asked an aide to "see me about anatabloc issues" at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia.
As treasurer for the county, Johnson has spent the past three years working to lead her office into the 21st century. In addition to re-establishing internal controls and increasing efficiency in the office, she has urged her four deputies to work toward earning their Treasurers Association of Virginia certification. Offered through the University of Virginia, the certification will be one more step “in increasing the professionalism in the office,” Johnson said.
At a time when television cameras weren't allowed in courtrooms, Ida Libby Dengrove, an artist for NBC, captured some of the most notorious trials of the 20th century in sketches.The University of Virginia School of Law library has more than 6,000 sketches done by Dengrove. A new exhibit of some of those pieces is on display at the library starting Friday and going into next year.
John A. Jane Sr., who headed the University of Virginia’s neurosurgery department for nearly 40 years, received a career achievement award from Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Thursday morning.Jane has logged 45 years of service at the university, including his current stint as a professor in the UVa School of Medicine. He is best known in the medical community for pioneering various techniques of craniofacial surgery, a type of plastic surgery that can help fix various facial and skull deformities — such as cleft palates — or serious facial fractures.Jane also helped care for actor C...