"If this continues, he clearly can’t perform the functions of the chair, which is to go in and put the spotlight on GOP gubernatorial candidates on the ballot in November," said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. "If he’s going to go into a state to help … but then he becomes the issue and generates negative headlines, then he can’t serve as RGA chair, it’s obvious."
Opportunities are on tap in the craft beer industry for talented young business professionals, an executive with Nelson County-based Devils Backbone said Friday. “It’s an industry that is maturing rapidly in a lot of ways,” said Hayes Humphreys, the brewery’s chief operating officer. Humphreys was one of about a dozen food and beverage business leaders to share insight and advice about the industry at a conference sponsored by the Wine & Cuisine Club at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.
The War Powers Resolution has never been successfully cited to end a single combat operation and no presidential administration since it came into effect has ever outright accepted its constitutionality. The courts have given little guidance on the matter, as they have refused to take cases given they view Congress as lacking standing to sue over the matter. That poor track record is what led the University of Virginia’s Miller Center to convene the National War Powers Commission in 2007.
(By Bob Gibson, executive director of U.Va.’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership) Virginia's colleges and universities appear headed in different directions in difficult times, with some in rural regions more at risk of failing.
Thirteen University of Virginia students have written proposed legislation that would require Virginia’s public universities to create and feature a webpage dedicated solely to mental health resources available to students at each institution.
A University of Virginia alumna made her big debut Saturday night on NBC's “Saturday Night Live.” All eyes were on Sasheer Zamata who became the show's first black female cast member in more than six years. Back in Charlottesville, Zamata's supporters at UVA are cheering on the 2008 graduate's first “SNL” performance.
(Transcript) Larry J. Sabato, director of U.Va.’s Center for Politics, discusses allegations that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie manipulated emergency relief money for political purposes.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Johnson “has stuck to his platform,” which has undoubtedly pleased conservatives, but has also angered fellow Republicans with his health care lawsuit. “That’s never good, angering people in your party,” Sabato said.
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a political newsletter for the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said which candidate has lived in the district the longest won't have nearly as much weight as campaign cash and the parties' national political momentum as the election nears.
A University of Virginia law student is working to improve the lives of young people with disabilities. Mario Salas is the 13th recipient of the law school's Powell Fellowship.
From Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Keene, where city School Board Member Leah Puryear gave this year’s keynote speech, to Mount Zion First African Baptist Church in downtown Charlottesville, where former University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III was presented this year’s community award, hundreds of locals came out to honor King.
New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests that exercise during pregnancy can benefit the unborn child's lifelong health.
For decades, there's been a nationwide shortage of men entering the seminary to become priests in the Catholic church. Recently, that trend has been turning around for the Diocese of Richmond, which includes the Charlottesville area. "When you know that God wants you to do something, it's pretty easy to just go ahead and do that," said Nicholas Redmond, a second-year seminarian in the Theological College in Washington, DC. Redmond is a University of Virginia graduate who taught at Albemarle High School for 10 years. … "I think the younger generation is looking at ...
University of Virginia employees who are trying to kick their smoking addictions can now enroll in a six-week session for help. The "Hoo's Kicking It?" program will start next week and aims to give participants a healthier lifestyle.
High school students in central Virginia are exploring the diversity of health care careers. The University of Virginia's School of Medicine opened its doors Monday to deliver a dose of reality for teens contemplating a future in the field.
Peterson is now one of just nine Democrats in the House to represent a district carried by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012. Romney won nearly 54 percent of the vote compared to 44 percent carried by President Obama. “The voters are more ideologically cohesive, the parties are more ideologically cohesive,” University of Virginia Center for Politics analyst Kyle Kondik said.
"Everyone in the political community has noticed that she's been chosen for a higher profile, and presumably she's being groomed for higher office," says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "If you're a mayor, you don't end up repeatedly on 'Meet the Press' without powerful people suggesting she's an appropriate Democratic spokesperson. ... It's obvious that she is highly articulate, stays on message, and projects a great image."