University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato rates the district “safe" Republican in his Crystal Ball ratings of House races.
Democrats said it's another sign that Republicans are nervous about Christie's problems in New Jersey. Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said the concerns may be warranted.
A recent University of Virginia study shows 1 in 10 Virginians receives Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP benefits. We wanted to put a face to that study.
The United States needs to establish a “continuum of learning” so workers can keep up with a rapidly changing and increasingly technical manufacturing environment, the co-chairs of a commission that is focusing on job creation for small- and medium-sized manufacturers, told a University of Virginia audience today.
New research by the University of Virginia has found Hispanic women are much more likely than any other demographic to deny an epidural when giving birth.
Population growth in Virginia slowed last year as fewer people moved to the state, but the Commonwealth still outpaced the nation, according to the most recent official state population estimates from the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
(Commentary) Feminist comedians in universities in America command great deals of respect: when Tina Fey gave the inaugural speech for the University of Virginia’s Art faculty last month, it was one of the most popular events that year.
In its latest breakdown of the 2016 GOP presidential sweepstakes, the University of Virginia's Center for Politics says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is the person to beat in the GOP nomination race. Kyle Kondik, Larry J. Sabato and Geoffrey Kelly write that Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie round out the “first tier” of candidates at this point in time.
Albemarle County-based Crutchfield Corp. is the 2014 recipient of the Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship, the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce announced today. The chamber will present the award to company founder Bill Crutchfield at its annual membership meeting and business luncheon, which is set for Feb. 19 at Glenmore Country Club.
And despite the roster of contenders, University of Virginia Center for Politics analyst Geoff Skelley says the former lieutenant governor has a slight advantage over the other eight candidates because he won two statewide races back in the 1990s.
Malcolm Bell, an archaeologist at the University of Virginia, who is the co-director of the Morgantina excavations and helped locate the possible site of the looting, says: “In retrospect it was a difficult agreement. From the point of view of any Sicilian, the absence of the silver in Aidone is much more apparent than it would be [to visitors] at the Met.”
Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics has taken another look into the Crystal Ball and there is good news and bad for Gov. Christie.
Mike London sat down and sighed. “Long day,” he said. “Good day.” Signing day usually is at the University of Virginia, and Wednesday was no exception. For the fourth straight year, the Cavaliers coach introduced a nationally-ranked class, one loaded with prospects coveted by other big-time schools.
The University of Virginia and Monticello are offering an open online course about Thomas Jefferson. “The Age of Jefferson” is the title of the course, which launches on Feb. 17 - President's Day. It's being taught by Peter Onuf, U.Va.'s Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation president emeritus.
Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said that while O’Malley is virtually unknown outside of Maryland, “he’s not badly positioned for a presidential candidacy.”
On Wednesday during National Signing Day, the Virginia football team is expected to receive national letters-of-intent from a defensive back considered to be a top 10 national recruit (Quin Blanding), a wide receiver ranked among the country’s top 100 prospects (Jamil Kamara) and a quarterback who could be the program’s future signal-caller (Corwin Cutler). Defensive tackle Andrew Brown, one of the nation’s top defensive linemen, has already enrolled at Virginia in order to participate in spring practice. It’s an unusually strong haul for a program that has just six win...
An NIT team a year ago, Virginia surged back from relative obscurity in large part because Malcolm Brogdon has, too.
(Letter to the editor from Robert C. Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education) Publicly funded preschool, currently offered through Head Start, state programs or child care subsidies, returns modest benefits for low-income children. And in the face of rising rates of child poverty, it needs shoring up to meet the demands of closing the achievement gap, which has been the promise of prekindergarten and the basis for many public investments.
(By Daniel T. Willingham, professor of psychology, and David W. Grissmer, research professor of education) When New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, went to Albany earlier this week to talk about his program for universal preschool, the discussion reportedly focused on funding, not on whether or how preschool would actually help children. President Obama seemed equally confident when he introduced his plan for universal preschool last year, flatly stating, “We know this works.” But the state of research is actually much murkier. And unless policy makers begin to design pres...
“Marriage is an emotional institution, a child-rearing institution and an economic institution,” says W. Bradford Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project. “Unless we improve the fortunes of poor working people, particularly poor working men, we aren’t going to see marriage coming back.”