Virginia House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell and House Republican leaders applauded the University of Virginia’s decision to cut its tuition increase in half.
Thomas Jefferson is celebrating the big 2-7-3 today, and we have 10 interesting facts about the versatile Founding Father.
Even as former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell waits for the Supreme Court to hear his appeal in a bribery conviction, lawmakers in Richmond are trying to chip away at new ethics rules created in the wake of that scandal. But current Gov. Terry McAuliffe is proposing amendments. Geoff Skelley at the UVA Center for Politics says, "It's not really addressing the issue, which is the potential for corruption, the potential for quid pro quo."
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, says Sen. Roy Blunt is still the favorite to win re-election. But in an April 7 analysis of the race, Sabato inched Missouri a tad further into the competitive category, listing it “leans Republican” instead of “likely.”
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics) Pennsylvania’s Seventh Congressional District, which forms a misshapen U linking Greater Philadelphia in the east to the outskirts of Lancaster and Reading to its west and north, provides a vivid example of the challenges Democrats face on the current U.S. House map.
Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital and the UVA Health System have partnered with community organizations to promote advanced care planning. Health professionals say it is important to discuss with your loved ones what kind of care you want and who you want speaking on your behalf, in the case you are unable to make your own health care decisions.
An unprecedented survey mailed to every household in Rappahannock County found that respondents treasure the beauty that surrounds them, the privacy they enjoy in one of Virginia’s least populated and unspoiled places, and the spirit of volunteerism that has neighbor helping neighbor. The survey, commissioned by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Foothills Forum and conducted by UVA’s Center for Survey Research, found 90 percent of respondents satisfied with living in Rappahannock and a scant 3 percent dissatisfied.
UVA law students are learning about how to create and manage a big law firm, thanks to a new course taught by a partner at a large law firm. The unique format of the class allows students to learn the inner workings of the firms they will soon join.
More than 200 people were at Monticello for a celebration of Thomas Jefferson's 273rd birthday anniversary. The keynote address at the historic home was delivered by the Children's Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman.
The ROTC program at UVA held an awards ceremony today for distinguished honors.
Children’s rights advocate Marian Wright Edelman on Wednesday accepted her second Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal at Monticello’s annual Founder’s Day celebration. Edelman – winner of this year’s award in Citizen Leadership – was the keynote speaker at the ceremony, which commemorated Jefferson’s 273rd birthday and kicked off a day of celebrations around Charlottesville.
UVA loses four scholarship seniors in guard Malcolm Brogdon and forwards Anthony Gill, Mike Tobey and Evan Nolte. “That’s so much experience we lost, and points per game, prowess defensively, experience,” Bennett said Wednesday. “It’s just all those things.”
When you hear “Hall of Fame,” you might think of sports, but Charlottesville’s newest hall of fame does not have dusty jerseys. That is because it honors graduates of UVA’s Army ROTC unit.
Citing the increased funding for higher education included in the new state budget, UVA announced that it will lower its planned tuition increase for in-state undergraduates to 1.5 percent, half of what was approved by the Board of Visitors in February.
A curious new malady spreading through parts of Virginia has alarmed epidemiologists and political scientists. Some are calling it Cantoritis, after former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. The first symptom is, they turn into philosophical zombies and spout nonsense. Then they stalk other Republicans. If they catch ’em, they eat ’em. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, a lawyer who chairs the powerful House Judiciary Committee, is facing a GOP primary challenge from Harry Griego, a pilot who proudly wears the label “constitutional conservative.” “That phrase is one tipoff Grieg...
Walking through a mass of middle- and high-school students dishing out high fives, shaking his short dreadlocks and rapping, “We can change the way people act … Let’s scream and shout that we want peace,” Emmanuel Jal looks like he was born with a mic in his hand. That could not be further from the truth. UVA McIntire School of Commerce professor Jeff Boichuk organized Jal’s visit as part of the Impact Gala, a fundraiser and networking event held Tuesday at the Boar’s Head Inn.
Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said that Mr. Clinton has improved the way he interacts with people on the campaign trail for his wife. “In the last round he got into arguments and he was angry, like the fact that the African-Americans had defected to Barack Obama, he felt this was a slap as much to him as to his wife. He was burning bridges,” he said.
Under President Clinton, welfare benefits were slashed, criminal penalties for nonviolent drug offenders were stiffened, Glass-Steagall was scrapped, traditional marriage was zealously guarded, and free trade came to North America. “He’s a liability in the primaries because he’s seen as representing a more conservative version of the Democratic Party,” said Larry Sabato, a UVA professor of political science. “On the whole, though, I’d much rather have him than not. His name is golden among older Democrats.”
A new UVA study has just brought us one step closer to the next great contraceptive revolution. And this time around, The Pill is going to be for men.
UVA got a special visit from the Vietnamese ambassador, Pham Quang Vinh, part of its "Ambassador Series," which has brought many foreign diplomats to Grounds over the years.