The donors who gave to Cuccinelli’s campaign fund but not McAuliffe’s include Comcast, MeadWestvaco, Silver Honaker Development Co LLC, Cyberdata Technologies Inc, AOL, LeClair Ryan, Virginia Credit Union League, NOVA Technology Council, The Virginia Farm Bureau, Virginia State Police Association, according to VPAP. “This is a standard practice called ‘make-up money.’ in other words, groups that financially backed the loser try to kiss and make up with the governor who’ll be in office for four years and making decisions that affect the groups,” said La...
(By Larry J. Sabato, director of U.Va.’s Center for Politics, and Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the Center for Politics) In our first ranking of the very large and very unsettled 2016 Republican presidential field back in April of last year, we decided to not even include the name of one of the brightest stars in the GOP universe: Jeb Bush. We just didn’t think, at the time, that the former Florida governor and brother and son of presidents was all that interested in running. But during 2013 and into this new year, we’ve gotten the sense, like many others, that things m...
In the confines of the auditorium in Franklin L. Williams Middle School yesterday, two-time WNBA champion Monica Wright supplied a crowd of Jersey City students with advice detailing everything from how to hit a layup to how to achieve life goals.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush now sits atop the leader board in the latest rankings of potential 2016 GOP presidential candidates by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. Kyle Kondik and Larry Sabato said Mr. Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie lead the Republican pack.
Thomas Bridges is a 2001 University of Virginia graduate living in the Raleigh suburb of Mooresville, NC. He has family in Chesapeake. He described his feelings about the Cavaliers basketball team playing as a number one seed just down the road from his home in two words. "It's awesome", he told 13News Now while watching practice with his two young sons.
Director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics Larry Sabato warned House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D., Calif.) push for her party to embrace Obamacare could have serious consequences for Democrats in the midterm elections next fall. Sabato, speaking this afternoon on Fox News, said Pelosi’s problem is she is trying to push an issue that the majority of the public has already decided they don’t like.
This week, Curbed National is examining what it's like to be a woman working in architecture. Today, writer Lamar Anderson profiles New York City-based Marion Weiss of Weiss/Manfredi (a graduate of U.Va.’s School of Architecture).
Jeb Bush now sits atop the leader board in the latest rankings of potential 2016 GOP presidential candidates by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Kyle Kondik and Larry Sabato said Bush, Walker, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Christie lead the Republican pack.
The contrasts between the top-seeded University of Virginia men’s basketball team and No. 16 seed Coastal Carolina extend beyond the brackets.
Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia Law School, filed a brief in support of Hobby Lobby. He says that the drafting history of RFRA and related legislation makes clear that Congress understood RFRA to protect “all persons, including for-profit corporations and their owners, when the owners can show a substantial burden on their exercise of religion.”
Batten School professor Gerald Warburg discusses his recently released book, “Dispatches From the Eastern Front: A Political Education From the Nixon Years to the Age of Obama.”
The Cavaliers will begin the NCAA tournament as a No. 1 seed for the first time in 31 years Friday when they face No. 16 Coastal Carolina in an East Region first-round matchup. An already historic campaign — Virginia had never won the ACC regular season and tournament titles in the same year before this season — could become even more memorable if the Cavaliers (28-6) win their first-round game for the first time since 2007 and then advance past the tournament’s first weekend for the first time since 1995.
Sen. Mark Warner may be a George Washington University alumnus, but he’s all aboard the University of Virginia Cavaliers’ bandwagon this March Madness. The Virginia Republican has the Wahoos winning the whole thing, downing Florida, Villanova, Michigan State, Coastal Carolina, and, you guessed it, the Colonials en route.
When the final buzzer sounded on Sunday, University of Virginia fans had cause to celebrate, but for Mark Mincer, the victory over Duke meant lots of work ahead. The president of a store founded by his grandfather in 1948, Mincer called in family members to prepare for crowds.
Another piece of the funding will go to a University of Virginia graduate student to fund her research. Gwen McGinn will study the importance of root systems and how they relate to ecological conditions.
A statistical study by a computer scientist at the University of Virginia's Predictive Technology Lab shows that it becomes easier to predict the locations of future crimes once data from Twitter is added to existing historic crime pattern data.
Kathleen Flake, the Richard Lyman Bushman Professor of Mormon Studies at the University of Virginia, said the 20th century was marked by women’s new political rights, social standing and personal opportunities. "Quite simply," she said, "a knowledge of the 20th century is impossible without women’s history.”
“When parents talk in a harsh and punitive manner, kids sometimes fight with them through food,” which can lead to overeating, said Patrick H. Tolan, a professor at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and director of Youth-Nex, the UVA Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. “The emotional arousal and turmoil that goes on when you’re being regularly talked to that way might make you more likely to use food to comfort or calm yourself,” Tolan said.
This year’s NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament may be the last of its kind. This post explores some of the brewing legal issues that may force big changes to future “Final Fours,” and in turn, the legal rights and obligations of the NCAA and its member universities, and athletics personnel and student-athletes.