Robert Tata was a two-sport star athlete at UVA and a successful high school football coach who won more than 100 games in stops at Norview and Granby in Norfolk. As it turned out, Tata was just warming up. He retired as a coach in 1980 and embarked on a political career during which he again drew the limelight. The quick-witted Tata became a popular and outspoken Republican legislator, representing Virginia Beach’s 85th district in the House of Delegates for 30 years until 2014. Tata died late Friday. He was 91.
"The data is pretty impressive,” says Dr. Jennifer L. Kirby, associate professor in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at UVA Health. “We have a limited amount of tools in our toolbox when it comes to the treatment of overweight and obesity. The addition of semaglutide is excellent news."
COVID-19 had ravaged R.J. Redstrom’s lungs, scarring his tissue and straining his ability to breathe. He lay on an ICU bed at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital last summer, an air mask over his mouth and a tube up his nose. For a month, he had been quarantined in a sterile, lonely room. He had just weeks to live. “He was on death’s door,” said Dr. Hannah Mannem, a lung transplant specialist at UVA Health. “He wouldn’t have made it out of the hospital without a lung transplant.” A team from UVA arrived at Henrico Doctors’ and sedated him for transportation to Charlottesville.
Two current members of UVA’s governing board, whose terms expire on June 30, were reappointed to their slots by Gov. Ralph Northam on Friday and two new members will join the panel July 1.
William F. Clinger Jr., a nine-term Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who vigorously pursued two investigations into wrongdoing by the Clinton administration and two decades later said that Donald J. Trump, his party’s nominee, was unqualified to be president, died on May 28 in Naples, Fla. He was 92. Clinger earned a bachelor’s degree at Johns Hopkins University in 1951, served four years in the Navy and was discharged as a lieutenant. He worked as an advertising executive for the New Process Company, a mail-order clothing business in Warren, before enrolling in the University of Virgi...
UVA (33-24) will face the Patriots (40-16) at Founders Park in Columbia, South Carolina — the same site where the Cavaliers won the NCAA regional in dramatic fashion. Their 4-3 victory Tuesday over Old Dominion on Devin Ortiz’s walk-off homer in the bottom of the 10th inning capped a remarkable run after the Cavaliers lost their regional opener to host South Carolina and had to win four straight games.
Idaho’s newest federal magistrate judge, Raymond Patricco Jr., was sworn in during a brief ceremony Friday morning at the federal courthouse in Boise. Patricco, 51, graduated from Harvard University and received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Reverberations continued to spread Thursday from the Memorial Day killing of a gay Blacksburg man whose alleged attacker, a Hokie linebacker, told police that he’d lashed out after discovering the person he met for a sexual encounter was not a woman. To charge a hate crime, prosecutors would have to determine whether the defendant acted with a bias as defined under the law, according to Timothy Heaphy, who is now chief counsel at the University of Virginia.
Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital has been working with different people and organizations in the area to increase equitable access to the COVID-19 vaccine. University of Virginia Health, the Blue Ridge Health District, and the UVA Latino Health Initiative are just a few of the affiliated organizations.
The integrated Translational Research Institute of Virginia, or iTHRIV, has announced its fifth class of scholars.
Melina Kibbe, MD, has been chosen as the 17th dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and chief health affairs officer for UVA Health, the Charlottesville, Va.-based health system said June 9.
“Baseball belongs to us – as a country,” I wrote earlier this year. “It is, after all, our pastime. America’s pastime. Not a game or a sport, but an originating stitch in the intrinsic fabric of what was once a worthy and well-moored national consciousness.” Poetic, huh? Of course, while I thought I was an eloquent advocate for the pastime – it turns out I’ve got nothing on a senior relief pitcher for the University of Virginia baseball team.
"Looking at Charlottesville and looking at January 6, we have to be keenly aware in our analysis of the role of violence," said Bauer, who lives in Charlottesville, where she attended law school at the University of Virginia. "We can stand up for the right for people to speak, but we are not going to stand up for the right of people to engage in threatening and violent conduct."
As Albemarle schools hosted their second COVID vaccination clinic in corroboration with BRHD at Albemarle High School Friday, a University of Virginia pediatric infectious disease specialist stressed importance of vaccinating children.
After being part of Team USA’s silver-medal run in 2016, Matt Simpson stepped away from goalball . . . temporarily. The Smyrna, Georgia, native returned as planned in time to help the U.S. secure a spot in the 2020 Tokyo Games, but not before he finished the side project he had been working on — graduating from law school at the University of Virginia.
Even if DeWine is vulnerable to a primary challenge, Republicans would need a candidate who can translate that anger into votes, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Maybe Renacci is that candidate,” he said. “He didn’t run really at all a strong Senate race in 2018 although I don’t know if his heart was ever in it because I think he always wanted to be governor.”
In the 57th District, which covers Charlottesville and part of Albemarle County, Del. Sally Hudson, D-Charlottesville, is the Democratic nominee. Hudson, an economist and University of Virginia professor, is running for her second term. Challenging her is Philip Hamilton, who moved to Charlottesville this year and is the first Republican to run in the district in more than a decade.
Republicans in Virginia, New Jersey take aim at Democrat-held governorships in 2021 election battles
Virginia was once a red-leaning state, but Republicans haven’t won a statewide election in a dozen years. Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan election forecaster based at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, noted that in past elections, it “was more common for Republicans to try and nationalize the race against Democrats. … This time it’s the opposite in that Democrats are trying to nationalize this race because Donald Trump is relatively unpopular in this state, where as the Republicans are trying to localize the race and paint Glenn Youngkin a...
McAuliffe, meanwhile, spent a good chunk of his election night celebration casting Youngkin as a Trump lackey who embraces election conspiracies and pals around with the likes of Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas firebrand blamed for the 2013 government shutdown that impacted the federal workforce in Virginia. “We are kind of in this stretch of the campaign where both candidates are trying to define each other,” said J. Miles Coleman, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
J. Miles Coleman, with the University of Virginia Center for Politics, says that as people look toward the general election, usually more established politicians like McAuliffe are favored to win in Virginia. However, Youngkin has an interesting pattern going for him.