"I don't think Honda needed a wake-up call, but if he did, this certainly would be it," said Kyle Kondik, a congressional elections expert at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "But I'm not ready to say this is a tossup."
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said of Hunter, "This guy makes Paula Dean look like the chair of the NAACP."
What happened to the onetime rising star? Hubris? Entitlement? Virginia's lax gift laws? "Probably a combination of all those," says Virginia politics guru Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Almost everyone who knows McDonnell is very surprised."
Other foreign courts with progressive constitutions have begun to shy away from relying on American law to support their judgments. A 2012 study by David S. Law of Washington University in St. Louis and Mila Versteeg of the University of Virginia found that "the U.S. Constitution appears to be losing its appeal as a model for constitutional drafters elsewhere."
Just moments after hearing on Wednesday that he had been appointed to Albemarle County’s Board of Supervisors, William B. “Petie” Craddock said he was “overwhelmed.”
Thomas Skalak, University of Virginia vice president for research, said that research done during the developmental stages of a project was taking a disproportionate hit because private funders that potentially could fill the void weren't interested in supporting uncertain studies. "Why is this important? It is important because early-stage research leads to the innovation that actually has been the very thing that creates economic, political and social security in our nation," said Skalak.
If McDonnell were to resign, Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling would fill the unexpired term. And University of Virginia Center for Politics analyst Kyle Kondik says that could shake up the race for governor. "It's certainly possible that if Bolling became governor that he could run a write-in campaign for governor as the sitting governor. You know, Bolling's name isn't that hard to spell, and people have won write-in contests in the past," he says.
Let’s hear it for the Alcoholic Beverage Control agents. They have brought us together. In these fractious times, it’s hard to find something that liberals and conservatives, libertarians, and socialists, even Redskins fans and Cowboys fans, can agree on. The ABC folks charged with keeping Charlottesville and Albemarle County safe from underage coeds smuggling bottled water out of the Harris Teeter have done it, though. They have found the sweet spot.
Virginia announced the hiring of its new swimming and diving coach on Wednesday, even as questions still swirled around the departure of his predecessor.
The second-highest ranking official at state Alcoholic Beverage Control was among those who questioned agents’ actions in the arrest of a University of Virginia student wrongly suspected of buying beer while underage.
It was all about history Wednesday at the University of Virginia. The Center for Politics hosted its first Living History Day for more than 200 Charlottesville-area students.
Four-year-olds with shorter than average sleep times have more behaviour problems, exhibiting aggression and throwing tantrums, a new study has found.
"Preschool children with shorter nighttime sleep duration had higher odds of parent-reported overactivity, anger, aggression, impulsivity, tantrums, and annoying behaviours," according to the study by Dr Rebecca J Scharf of University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and colleagues.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System prospectively screened patients admitted to a 40-bed central Virginia LTACH for CRE colonization. Additionally, weekly surveillance for CRE was performed on all patients in the facility. During the 24-month study period, 262 patients received care at the LTACH and 20 had positive CRE cultures.
(Commentary) Thankfully, a University of Virginia student wasn’t killed for the “illicit” act of buying sparkling water. The actions of state law enforcement officers, however, made things worse one night in Charlottesville. Their overbearing, rough approach needs to be reined in – quickly.
The entire notion that American chief executives earn a lot more than their foreign counterparts is largely misplaced. A study that looked at this question last year found that what appeared to be the great variance in CEO pay between the U.S. and Europe is largely illusory. Pedro Matos, an associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, was one of the authors of that study. "In other words, the world is flat for CEOs, or nearly so," Matos wrote in Forbes earlier this year.
David Breneman, an economist of education at the University of Virginia, says the for-profit group may have bought the university for its accreditation. “Getting accredited for a brand new institution can sometimes take five or more years, and you can’t really be getting student aid until you’ve gotten accredited," Breneman says. "So if you can swoop in and buy a previously accredited institution and keep the accreditation, that’s a big win for the for-profit.”
McAuliffe winds up spending much of his time bashing Cuccinelli about the Michael Mann/U.Va. controversy. Will this thing ever become interesting and not just a regurgitation of long-ago happenings? In a word, no. So says noted political observer Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “This Virginia Governor's election is destined to go down in history as one of the most purely negative ever,’’ he said. “Both major-party nominees are so controversial that it's almost impossible to sell them positively. Therefore, the ca...
Parental relationship matters more than parental gender in determining children’s ultimate success. Charlotte Patterson and Jennifer Wainright of the University of Virginia found that adolescents who had close bonds with their parents, regardless of the adults’ gender, did best in school, were less likely to use drugs, and felt liked by their peers.
The project, which cost about $2 million, was funded mostly by the University of Virginia Health System.
“From a corporate perspective, Kroger really doesn’t view the acquisition of Harris Teeter as we might in the local market,” said Michael Ho, a professor at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration and an expert in mergers and acquisitions.