Larry J. Sabato, the founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics, and a team of researchers were reviewing the files on Thursday night. He sent a report of what they had found so far: “As expected, these incomplete raw files are, often, a mess. Handwritten notes from the C.I.A. and others are often illegible. It will take an enormous amount of work and lots of time to put this together. Think of this as an unassembled million-piece puzzle. Since the good stuff has mainly been withheld for now – or forever – we are primarily looking for obscure clues and shiny objects. Here, the file...
UVA’s Center for Politics identified eight Republicans facing competitive challenges and two Democrats. The incumbent who seems to be facing the strongest challenge is Del. Jim LeMunyon (R-67), who sent out mailers emphasizing his work with Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe. "This is probably the best chance Democrats have of taking out a GOP incumbent,” said Geoff Skelley, media relations coordinator at the Center for Politics. “Jim LeMunyon occupies the most Democratic seat held by a Republican in the House of Delegates.”
Experts warned that although the poll suggested a large lead for the Democrats, the actual vote was still another 12 months ago. “Look, nobody knows which pollster is right, but I have to say this is by far the largest advantage Democrats have achieved in any survey,” said Larry Sabato, professor of politics at the University of Virginia.
“We think there will be documents that indicate that he was on the radar screen of the CIA and the FBI, that they did trace him to Mexico City and this visit that he made in the months leading up to the assassination with the Soviets and with the Cubans. We just don't know to what extent these documents will reveal what was going on in those trips to Mexico City or after,” said Barbara Perry, of the University of Virginia.
It’s not unusual for today’s families to live in multiple states. Adult children may follow jobs around the globe; parents may move away when they retire to a resort community or return to a childhood hometown. “The good intention is to allow the elder to age in place as long as possible,” said Brenda Wilson, director of UVA’s Faculty and Employee Assistance Program. “A couple of hospitalizations may tell the child that this is ‘as long as possible.’ I think a lot of people know it when they get there.”
“If you have enough money as a company, organization, political action committee representing the company, whatever the nature of the group donating is, you may decide that it’s worth it to give money to both sides because at the end of the day it can’t look negatively on you when only one of them wins. At least you’ll have given money,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Scholars and sleuths say the CIA is pushing Trump to keep some of the materials secret. The spy agency isn't denying that. "Clearly there are documents, plural, files, plural, being appealed to him," said UVA historian Larry Sabato, an authority on Kennedy. Of the pressure on Trump, Sabato said, "I'm told reliably that it continues and that it has intensified." The historian said documents generated in the 1990s that could contain the names of people who are still alive are of particular concern to those who want files held back.
Researchers were frustrated by the uncertainty that surrounded the release for much of the day. "The government has had 25 years - with a known end-date - to prepare #JFKfiles for release," UVA historian Larry Sabato tweeted in the afternoon. "Deadline is here. Chaos." Asked what he meant, Sabato emailed to say: "Contradictory signals were given all day. Trump's tweets led us to believe that disclosure was ready to go. Everybody outside government was ready to move quickly."
The CIA and FBI may be blocking the release of certain documents to hide their own failings, said Larry Sabato, a UVA professor of politics and the author of “The Kennedy Half Century.”
(By Rita Dove, Commonwealth Professor of English) If I were allowed to rub the genie’s lamp, I’d ask for public support of theater, ballet and opera companies with resident troupes in our country. I’d establish art centers all over small-town and rural America and integrate them with school systems, making access affordable; high-quality live performances should not just be for the wealthy. Let’s educate our citizenry in the appreciation of beauty through artistic performance, which over time might allow us to connect on levels where differences in race, class and gender lose their insidi...
Using military and pension records, researchers have compiled a list of 240 Black men from Albemarle County who served in the Union Army.
The project is estimated to cost between $9,000 and $12,000, plus labor. Funds have been pledged by the nearby Out of Bounds community, the University of Virginia’s vice provost for the arts and the Canterbury Hill Neighborhood Association. UVa students will be painting with Lorenzo on Saturday.
John C. Lowe, a lawyer who filed suit to overturn the University of Virginia’s male-only undergraduate admissions policy, and who later won a landmark First Amendment case and defended the longest-held U.S. prisoner of war in Vietnam against charges of desertion, died Oct. 15 at his home in Bethesda, Md. He was 80.
Despite the publication of 18-year follow-up data, which confirmed the 2007 findings on the safety and effectiveness of hormone therapy in younger women, clinicians still have knowledge gaps that require education, said lead researcher Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, from UVA’s Midlife Health Center, who is executive director of the North American Menopause Society.
"Xi Jinping has started his second term by announcing a new era in Chinese politics, and evidently part of the new era is to leave open the question of successors," says UVA political scientist Brantly Womack. "Does this mean that Xi plans to break precedent and take a third term himself?"
Why is it so common for men to struggle with or lash out at a rejection? “We aren’t giving boys the space to voice emotions as we give to girls,” says Dr. Chris Hafen, a research scientist at UVA’s Virginia Adolescent Research Group. “What that builds is a dynamic where boys are behind girls as far as emotional maturity.”
The 67th district stretches from South Riding through Sully Station and Penderwood. The average commute time is 33 minutes, and 81 percent of workers over the age of 16 drive alone to work — a set of statistics that crystalize the political influence transportation has on voters here. Republicans haven’t had a successful statewide candidate here since Republican Bob McDonnell was elected governor in 2009. Hillary Clinton crushed Donald Trump among voters in the district, taking an overwhelming 58 percent of the vote. Trump took only 36 percent of the vote here, which has put this dis...
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politicssaid it’s hardly unusual for a president’s favorability to drop after taking office. Still, Trump’s poor national standing could have consequences for the GOP in the 2018 midterm elections, when 23 Democrats, two independents and eight Republicans are up for re-election.
“Clearly there are documents, plural, files, plural, being appealed to him,” said UVA historian Larry Sabato, an authority on Kennedy. Of the pressure on Trump, Sabato said, “I’m told reliably that it continues and that it has intensified.”
McInnis lauded what a great student Inman was — "I remember in school he wanted to be the best at his grades" — and UVA film professor Kevin Everson echoed those sentiments. "He was really engaging, worked hard, tried to help everybody else," Everson said. Inman was a digital art major and Everson recalled how he "did this really sweet installation for his senior show. ... The installation had all this hay, it had all these crazy monitors. It was fascinating because the people were thinking it was a fire hazard but they let him do it anyway because it was cool."