Herrera Beutler also may benefit from Washington’s “top two” primary system, which puts every candidate on the same ballot regardless of party, said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the nonpartisan politics newsletter at UVA’s Center for Politics. “I think it definitely plays to her advantage. I would definitely say if Washington had a closed Republican primary, that would be potentially very tough for her,” Coleman said.
Larry Sabato, a UVA political analyst, said that for decades after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976, “outside of a few liberal white pockets, and much of the Black community, support for the death penalty was strong. And it was fundamental to political success. … If a politician wanted to win statewide, or in most localities and districts, he had to trumpet his backing for two things – capital punishment and the right-to-work law.”
Political scientist Larry Sabato took a grim view of the scene in Orlando. “Trump continues his #BigLie drumbeat about having really WON the election,” tweeted Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “And these #CPAC cultists cheer him loudly. Beyond hopeless.”
Del. Sally Hudson, D-Charlottesville, described the delay in funding as offering a chance to further refine program design. An economist at UVA, Hudson has been the most outspoken skeptic among Democratic lawmakers this session of the effectiveness of publicly funded rebates as a policy tool.
The circumstances of Mr. Floyd’s death could overcome challenges that hurt the strength of previous complaints about prone restraints. “The fact that someone is criminally prosecuted identifies the defendant as a bad actor in a way a civil suit doesn’t,” said John Jeffries, a criminal law professor at UVA. “It’s harder for the criminal defendant police officer to successfully say, ‘I’m a cop. I just do what cops do.’”
The UVA Medical Center reported an average daily census for the Feb. 19-25 period of 462.3, 75.3% of its 614-bed capacity. The average number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients at UVA for the period was 31.3, down from last week’s average of 34.7.
Beginning Tuesday, UVA Health will permit additional visitation to its in-patient units, emergency department and procedural areas.
For the Blue Ridge Health District, the increase in dose allocation means it will get 4,170 first-dose vaccines a week. The release says nearly half of those will be distributed to UVA Health to help with vaccinating people at the Seminole Square location and other community sites.
(Editorial) “Out-migration from Virginia is largely being driven by Northern Virginia and to a lesser extent Hampton Roads,” says Hamilton Lombard, a demographer with UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. “Before the 2010s, out-migration from Northern Virginia was more likely to be to the rest of Virginia than out of state. During the early 2010s this trend reversed. … Virginia’s slower population growth in recent years has principally been due to the fact that more people moving out of Northern Virginia are going to other states than other parts of Virginia.”
New modeling from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute warns against complacency, however. The institute reports that the spread of the B.1.1.7 variant, which is more contagious, could create another surge in cases. It noted that half of the state’s current 10 hot spots are in college towns, including Charlottesville, where the variant has been reported among cases at UVA.
UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute’s latest report on the pandemic, issued Friday, continued to be optimistic. Average daily cases per capita were at about 39 per 100,000 residents during the week ending Feb. 14. Daily cases are thought to have peaked at just over 68 per 100,000 residents during the week ending Jan. 24.
With cases on a steep decline, variants are becoming the focus of concern among health experts, including the University of Virginia. UVA’s Biocomplexity institute, which each Friday provides a report on the pandemic, said that a combination of variants and Virginia residents’ abandoning safety precautions could lead to another spike in cases by summer, with a peak in June higher than the one experienced in January.
Historian Hannah Scruggs curated the exhibit. She started with the oral histories that had been collected during a heritage and history day at the school, as well as those in collections at the University of Virginia and the Scottsville Museum, Brody said. They also went through items at UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, including six boxes of artifacts from the school, obtained more research from the Scottsville Museum and utilized newspaper articles, yearbooks and additional information from families from the area.
Cortney Hawkins moved to Charlottesville from Birmingham, Alabama in December to take on a new role with the Univerty of Virginia Police Department (UPD), one that Chief Timothy Longo knew she’d be perfect for. “She understood the importance of relationship and engagement, and to be intentional about this work of diversifying this police department,” Longo said. Longo created the role of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Manager,” and says he wanted to be intentional about creating this job, not just going through the motions.
The University of Virginia has surpassed the number of COVID-19 cases that were reported during the entire fall semester.
The University of Virginia announced Friday plans to lift most COVID-19 restrictions implemented amid last week’s spike in virus cases.
The University of Virginia will loosen temporary restrictions on students following a sharp decline in recent coronavirus cases on campus, officials said Friday.
Dr. Bruce Greyson started out as a skeptic. He went through traditional psychiatric training in medical school and described himself as a "materialistic scientist." So when he saw a handful of patients who described profound experiences when they came close to death – or near-death experiences – he wasn’t convinced.
(Commentary co-written by Philip Zelikow, professor of history and of governance) Taiwan is becoming the most dangerous flashpoint in the world. Events in and involving the small democracy could spark a war that draws in the United States, China, Japan and possibly others.
(Commentary by Daniel T. Willingham, UVA psychology professor) When musician John Roderick’s 9-year-old daughter asked him how to use a can opener, he saw it as a teaching moment. He refused to show her and vowed that they wouldn’t eat until she had puzzled it out. It took her six hours, during which Roderick provided hints, cajoled, philosophized and occasionally teased her.