Harris isn’t the only high profile Democrat who has joined McAuliffe on the campaign trail this election season: Former President Barack Obama, first lady Jill Biden, failed 2018 Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms have also stumped for McAuliffe in recent weeks. “The McAuliffe campaign may not be bringing out the big guns unless they really need to,” said J. Miles Coleman, an elections analyst at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. It’s no coincidence that four high-profile black Democrats—Harris, Obama, Ab...
Virginia’s race for governor matters because it’s the only competitive big election this year, but it’s not “an unerring predictor” of what will happen in next year’s midterm elections, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, in an email.
On Oct. 14, political analysts at the University of Virginia Center for Politics wrote that “early voting is down a good deal compared to last year’s presidential race, as expected.” They also cautioned that drawing any conclusions from early vote totals in Virginia would be difficult “because the lion’s share of Virginians have traditionally voted on Election Day, aside from last year during the pandemic.”
(Podcast) Laura Shin, host of the Unchained Podcast, interviews Abe Sutherland, an adjunct professor at University of Virginia School of Law, who believes another provision tucked inside the bill could end up being a far more significant issue for anyone transacting in digital assets.
Several members of the committee expressed irritation at the “binary choice” of either voting “yes or no” on the recommendation, as opposed to a more nuanced recommendation. However, Dr. Peter Marks, director of FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, charged the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committeeat the beginning of the meeting that their job was not to decide who would get the vaccine within the population, nor to discuss or consider vaccine mandates. “I understand why the question was asked that way, but I certainly don’t like it,” said Dr. Michael Nelson...
Marlene Daut, a professor of African American studies at the University of Virginia who is Haitian and specializes in French-speaking Caribbean nations, believes the continuous events have made it difficult for Haitians officials and citizens to process what’s going on.
Legal scholars say that even if courts ruled in favor of taxing unrealized gains at their increased values — known as a “mark to market” assessment of value — it’s unclear how they would approach the constitutionality of a tax conditioned on the wealth of the taxpayer rather than on his or her income. “There are plausible arguments on both sides,” said Andrew Hayashi, a professor who is the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Tax Law.
In one-on-one interview with 10 News, Terry McAuliffe details his plans if elected Virginia governor
On the day of our interview, Democrat Terry McAuliffe met with leading health experts from UVA in Charlottesville, all talking about the risks and problems from COVID-19. “The head of infectious diseases for the University of Virginia Medical Center was telling me we are going to live with this for another two years,” McAuliffe said during a one-on-one interview, which is why he’s banking that his tough-on COVID-19 stance will appeal to voters. “As you know, I want to require that every nurse, every doctor, every teacher, be vaccinated. Every student who attends college needs to be vaccinated....
(Commentary) Back when I taught a course on race, racism, and racial identity, one of my students discovered the University of Virginia’s Racial Dot Map, a tool that allows users to visually assess the racial demographics of a given location, including the racial and ethnic disparities of state prisons. This interactive resource was created by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service and added a great deal to our understanding of the racialization of geography.
(Commentary) After learning about the birth of country music, I wanted to know more about Southwest Virginia. It’s still rural and sparsely populated compared with the rest of the state, roughly 90 percent White, working class and solidly Republican. An article posted in September to the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics website found that for voters in the state who fit that profile, “racial resentment” was a driving force behind their candidate preferences.
One of the studies, published by University of Virginia researchers earlier this month, used satellites to measure the near-daily emissions of nitrogen dioxide in 52 major U.S. cities, including Phoenix, Los Angeles and Newark, New Jersey. It found that low-income neighborhoods and communities of color experience an average of 28% more nitrogen dioxide pollution than higher-income and majority-white neighborhoods.
A new forecast by University of Virginia scientists indicates that an increase in cases is possible if transmissions mirror that of last winter; however, Virginia is not currently on this trajectory. “It is possible that a severe flu season, in conjunction with the ongoing COVID pandemic, may push hospitals to near capacity in January of 2022,” the report states.
New COVID-19 treatments may be leaving certain populations out. A study out of the University of Virginia suggests that minorities and those who live far from cities are not participating in crucial trials.
Getting your hands on a COVID-19 treatment research trial has been a viable path toward patient care access during the pandemic, but new research out of UVA Health shows those trials are out-of-reach for about a third of Americans and three-quarters of folks living in rural areas.
So where should you go for peak ginkgo? If you’re up for a 70-mile drive from DC, the Ginkgo Grove at Blandy Experimental Farm in Boyce, Virginia boasts over 300 trees and is one of the largest public ginkgo groves in America. If you’re homebound, check out this virtual ginkgo seminar from Blandy/University of Virginia faculty.
Unbiased policing is the goal of new training for the University of Virginia Police Department. It’s called justice training and is hosted by the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement, or NOBLE.
The next few days will look a bit different for the University of Virginia Police Department. The entire staff is receiving training from National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives. The goal is to engage in procedural justice. It’s a combination of reading, talking, and exercises to help the officers understand the community and its goals better.
For the second straight year, University of Virginia students living on the Lawn have canceled the community trick-or-treat that attracted scores of neighborhood children, both older and younger than 18.
The University of Virginia has broken ground on a facility for a new data science school on its Charlottesville campus. The School of Data Science will sit on 14-acre campus area that also will have a hotel and conference center, a performing arts center and other academic buildings, the university says in a news release.
(Subscription required) “When photography was invented and developed, it was almost entirely used in the West,” said John Edwin Mason, a UVA associate professor of African history and the history of photography. “The technology and the practical techniques that photographers developed were to capture white people’s skin tones.” He added, “Film and digital technology both are still biased toward doing justice to white skin tones, with Black skin tones being an afterthought.”