The UVA Health Vaccination Center will have appointments for children at the Battle Building on West Main Street. To make an appointment, call 434-297-4829.
(Video) Interview with pharmacy manage Justin Vesser about expanding COVID vaccinations to children ages 5 to 11 and other pharmacy matters.
Piedmont Virginia Community College will expand its associate degree nursing program by 50 students each year starting in January, bringing the annual enrollment to 150. The increase was in response to a request by the UVA Medical Center, and the goal is to graduate more nurses and to have two graduation cycles, one in May and one in December, so hospitals don’t have to wait a full year for new graduates. PVCC President Frank Freidman said the expansion would not be possible if the UVA Medical Center and an anonymous donor hadn’t contributed a total of $700,000 to pay for three years of start-...
The University of Virginia has been recognized as one of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the United States. According to a release, the Princeton Review gave UVA a score of 93 points out of a possible 99 in its Guide to Green Colleges: 2022 Edition.
Elementary students who need some help with their literacy skills can now get some help from local law enforcement agencies. Beginning this week, the Albemarle County and UVA police departments will be facilitating a tutoring program with the Life Enrichment Center.
The transition to civilian life can be a battle. Alex Espinoza was a sergeant in the U.S. Army for six years, including two deployments to Iraq and Syria. He is now studying at the University of Virginia and he says it’s been a challenging change of pace. But new friends are helping him navigate this journey, especially the students at the UVA Veteran Center who share a similar experience to his.
“The ideal vaccine is one which, after just a single dose, provides lifelong immunity to disease,” said Dr. Patrick Jackson, a UVA infectious disease expert. “Unfortunately, it’s hard to get the immune system to mount a highly active and long-lasting response if it only sees its new target once.”
Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, are not betting. In a Monday post to the center’s Sabato’s Crystal Ball, they said the results favor McAuliffe, sort of. “The race has been very close for a long time, based on our understanding of both public and private polling and modeling,” they wrote. “We kept the race at ‘leans Democratic’ anyway because, even in a close race, we’ve come to believe that a state’s baseline partisanship can break ties in favor of the state’s stronger party — which is the Democrats in Virginia.”
In looking at the candidates to be the next governor of Virginia, the UVA Center for Politics says the image of the outsider could impact the race. J. Miles Coleman comments on Glenn Youngkin’s race, comparing him to former President Donald Trump. “Kind of this profile of the outsider businessman has really played well on the Republican side,” he said. “I mean, you think of people like Trump, you think of other governors across the South, the country, they really like this image of the reformer, outsider businessman.”
(Commentary) Some 16 years later, will a tight race for governor end so quietly, with little to no controversy? Or will the losing side act more like the losers of the 2020 presidential election did? Last week I put those questions to two longtime observers of Virginia politics. One’s Larry Sabato, a UVA professor and director of its Center for Politics. The other is Bob Holsworth, founding director of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Center for Public Policy. Both said they doubted the governor’s race in Virginia would wind up in the kind of anarchy that occurred in Washington in January. B...
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball on Monday described Virginia’s gubernatorial race as now leaning in favor of Republican Glenn Youngkin, saying there were “indications” it “could be the closest” in 30 years. “This Virginia gubernatorial race is one of the most vexing races we can remember,” Miles Kondik and J. Miles Coleman wrote for Sabato’s University of Virginia election forecasting blog. “Terry McAuliffe retains the advantage of running in a state that is clearly trending Democratic. But Glenn Youngkin has many significant advantages of his own, which may outweigh Virginia’s Democratic lean.”
Sabato’s Crystal Ball, an elections forecaster and newsletter at the University of Virginia, has changed its rating for the Virginia governor race to “Leans Republican” from “Leans Democratic,” which the race had been listed as since March.
(Video) UVA Professor of Politics Jennifer Lawless and UVA Miller Center Senior Fellow Mary Kate Cary joined Chris Jansing live to preview Tuesday’s high-stakes gubernatorial election there. They discuss what the race could signal for the 2022 midterms and how former President Donald Trump’s influence could impact the results.
A Youngkin victory could provide a template for Republicans walking a fine line in next year’s congressional races. “Spending a lot of your time trying to cultivate the middle might be wise because it might be that the Trump electorate is going to be fired up no matter what,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Like “soccer moms” of the 1990s, or “security moms” of the 2000s, this year’s “school board moms” have already been dubbed a pivotal swing vote. “These are independent women who live in the suburbs and are concerned about what’s going on in their kids’ schools,” says Jennifer Lawless, an expert on women and politics at the University of Virginia. “They were the ones responsible for providing homeschooling for a year, they are implementing COVID protocols in their home, and in many places, they believe they know better than the government what their kids should be learning.”
Larry Sabato from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics talked about the Virginia gubernatorial election on Monday and the impact of “white resistance” and “white backlash” in the race between Republican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe. “There’s a lot of — we can call it, white backlash, white resistance, whatever you want to call it,” Sabato said of the education issue. “It has to do with race. And so, we live in a post factual-era anyway, Chris. This is a post-factual era. It doesn’t matter that it isn’t taught in Virginia schools. It’s this generalized attitude that w...
Virginia is the only state in the country in which the governor can’t run for a successive term, making it challenging to secure significant policy shifts. The state also operates on a two-year budget calendar, so the new governor’s first budget will be his predecessor’s, in this case, Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat. “In the time frame available for the next governor, I don’t see huge changes” to Virginia’s energy profile, said William Shobe, director of the Energy Transition Initiative at the University of Virginia.
A new state law means we’ll see results from Virginia’s early and absentee ballots first. Ballots cast on Election Day will be released afterward. “This will enable people to see separately what the in-person and mail ballot vote was, and then, as the Election Day balloting proceeds, I think you’ll see a different total,” University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato said.
(Video) Larry Sabato, founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, says Republican voters are motivated and could help Glenn Youngkin win. Sabato is on “Balance of Power.”
Some question whether this new crop of poll watchers will be impartial witnesses. Many Republicans have started signing up to become poll watchers because they have been motivated by their belief in “the big steal,” says Daniel Ortiz, a law professor at the University of Virginia. While it’s entirely possible for the new recruits to set aside their political beliefs while on the job, Ortiz says he is nevertheless concerned. “You worry that people who seem to be part of almost a cult, who believe things in spite of the facts, might not do their job properly,” he says.