It’s one of the best food deals in town in one of the most unique dining atmospheres around. Every Wednesday, The Haven in Charlottesville offers up lunch with some of the very homeless it helps, making sure you’re well taken care of. For $10 dollars you get a three-course meal prepared by various restaurants, home cooks, refugees, or University of Virginia students.
This week, we're taking you on our Sense Of Place trip to Charlottesville, Va., and exploring the city's music scene. Charlottesville is a picturesque college town that's home to the University of Virginia, or UVA. If the name rings a bell, it might be because their men's basketball team won the NCAA March Madness tournament back in 2019, and the Cavalier Marching Band was along for the ride. If you've ever wondered how a marching band chooses songs, or how hundreds of musicians can be so perfectly coordinated, then you're in for a treat. Today we go behind the scenes with the Cavalier Marchin...
President Donald Trump is calling out University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato on Twitter. Sabato is the director of the UVA Center for Politics and runs Sabato’s Crystal Ball.
(Commentary) This week, House Democrats will reportedly pass a measure to lift the 1982 deadline on a feminist amendment to the U.S. Constitution, although the Supreme Court, legal scholars, and the U.S. Department of Justice have said the attempt is unconstitutional. The so-called Equal Rights Amendment was defeated in the 1980s by a woman-led coalition that argued women’s rights will be damaged by attempting to eliminate all distinctions between men and women in federal law. That argument received unlikely support in the wake of Virginia’s legislature attempting to ratify the expired amendme...
The swing states that took the biggest hit in the Panjiva data are Nevada, Wisconsin and Michigan. Those states endured a net loss of exports overall, and to China in particular from 2017 to 2019. Maine lost exports to China while overall exports were flat. Trump won Michigan and Wisconsin in 2020, and the four states combined account for 34 electoral votes. That could be enough to tilt the 2020 election one way or the other, according to early predictions of the vote total at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
During the John F. Kennedy presidency, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was the administration enforcer. Even President Jimmy Carter had a mean streak that leaned toward reprisals, according to his White House counsel, Lloyd Cutler. This was perhaps a holdover from President Carter’s days as governor of Georgia, where political payback was common. “There were some petty revenges that were taken,” Mr. Cutler said in an oral history at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
Other donors on the Philanthropy 50 list have done what Bloomberg did by providing college aid to jump-start economic mobility. David Walentas (No. 22), the New York real-estate developer, and his wife, Jane, made their first appearance on the list. They donated $100 million to the University of Virginia for scholarships for first-generation college students.
Some research suggests that ranked-choice elections might promote diversity among political representatives. One study in 2018 found that in the Bay Area in California, there were better outcomes for women and candidates of color under the system. Sarah John, an author of that study and a researcher with UVA and the Sunlight Foundation, said ranked choice was still a fairly novel system in the United States. “It will take some time for researchers to come to definitive answers about its effects,” she said.
President Donald Trump took aim at UVA political analyst Larry Sabato on Twitter this weekend after Sabato tweeted a satirical article mocking the Iowa caucus debacle going on until the year 2186.
On Thursday, the small plaque marking a century of slave auctions suddenly went missing, stirring consternation and controversy in a city already struggling with its history. “It was disturbing,” said Jalane Schmidt, a UVA associate professor of religious studies. “Although this slave auction plaque was so small and set in the ground and you could walk over it, it was the only thing we had to commemorate the slaves whose lives were torn apart there.”
University of Virginia students are putting aside a big rivalry to test technologies that may one day be found in self-driving cars. On Saturday, they teamed up with students from Virginia Tech to test drones in the air and on the ground at Milton Field in Albemarle County.
Students from the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech are working together to compete in the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Competition in Dubai on Feb. 26. The team met up at Milton Field on Saturday to test their unmanned air and ground vehicles for the challenges they'll face in the competition.
As health organizations around the world try to shut down the spread of the virulent coronavirus that has killed more than 800 people in China, a group of computer science majors who were high school friends has developed a website to track reported cases worldwide. Trackcorona.live is the creation of University of Virginia undergraduates James Yun and Soukarya Ghosh; Bilguunzaya Battogtokh, of Stanford University; and Austin Stout, of Virginia Tech. The four are friends from Arlington’s Yorktown High School.
(Commentary by Ruth Mason, Edwin S. Cohen Distinguished Professor of Law and Taxation) France and the U.S. have managed to avoid turning their recent trade skirmish into a war – for now. The dispute involves France’s decision last summer to unilaterally reach outside the United States-French tax treaty framework to tax U.S. tech companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter. Calling the French tax an illegal trade practice, the U.S. vowed to retaliate with 100% tariffs on a broad range of French products.
(Commentary by Nicole Hemmer, research associate at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) The Democratic presidential primary has been under way for more than a year. But it wasn't until last Monday that voters got their first chance to weigh in on who should be the party's nominee. The storied Iowa caucuses – which have kicked off the Democratic race since 1972, in large part because of their complex rules – seemed especially important this year, given the large Democratic field. So all eyes were on Iowa on Monday night.
The embrace of Trump is for better or worse. Trump retains a propensity for controversy, and there is the potential for new, damaging information from lawsuits and investigations or an economic slowdown triggered by an outside event, such as a significantly wider spread of the novel coronavirus. “The danger for Republicans is the president collapses in the fall and he drags his party down with him,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball election forecast at the University of Virginia.
“Buttigieg is only popular in heavily white states. He’s likely to crash and burn in South Carolina and on Super Tuesday,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia politics expert.
The revolutionary drums don’t sound in the Buttigieg campaign, but a melody of ideals and hope of air obamaniano. For J. Miles Coleman, an analyst at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, the comparison is evident. “His appeal to values, optimism, the elevation of speech … It is also similar in his approach to place himself as a new sap against the usual Washington,” he explains.
Political observers note that House incumbents generally win primary elections. “But every cycle, there usually is an upset or two,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor for Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “It is hard to know what the real state of play is in the TX-12 primary, but the amount of money being spent and the involvement of outside groups like the Club for Growth suggests that this may indeed be a competitive race.”