Virginia has gotten increasingly blue in its politics in the past dozen years, and Democrats now hold every statewide office and control both chambers of the state legislature. But gubernatorial elections in Virginia are always competitive, notes Kyle Kondick, a political analyst with the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, and Democrats aren't taking this fall's race for granted. While Biden won Virginia by 10 percentage points in 2020, "the president's party typically does worse in the governor's race than they did in the state beforehand," in the presidential election, Kondick say...
Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said this race is something of a reversal from McAuliffe’s last one, in large part because the state’s demographics have grown more favorable to Democrats. “McAuliffe is clearly trying to nationalize the race, while Youngkin wants to localize it,” he said. “The last time, it was his opponent who wanted to nationalize it, while McAuliffe was the one who was trying to set out his own way.”
All of that has piled up to create a confusing, byzantine system, some critics say, making it inaccessible to those who need it most. “There’s very little clarity or predictability. They feel like they don’t understand where they’re at in the process,” said Del. Sally Hudson (D-Charlottesville), a labor economist at the University of Virginia. “Most of them are just waiting for a call that may someday come, but they don’t know when it’ll come.”
UVA Health epidemiologist Dr. Costi Sifri says one of the reasons we’re doing better than other states is because of our vaccination rate. “We’re in a good place,” Sifri said. “We are seeing an uptick a bit in cases but importantly that’s not been translated into hospitalizations and deaths, I think both statewide and in our community.”
According to the emergency procurement documents, Team Henry was chosen to conduct the removal because of the firm’s experience removing Confederate statues “under controversial terms” in Richmond and Tennessee. City staff first spoke with Team Henry’s owner, Devon Henry, on June 16. The city also noted that the firm was recommended by Jalane Schmidt, professor of race and religion at the University of Virginia and a member of the city’s Historic Resources Committee, as well as Andrea Douglas, executive director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center.
The author of the 220-page independent review of the chaotic events of summer 2017 in Charlottesville calls the removal of the two downtown Confederate statues “a victory”. Tim Heaphy is a former federal prosecutor who was working as an attorney with Hunton & Williams when his team wrote the document. He’s now chief counsel at the University of Virginia.
A body believed to be that of a missing Virginia woman has been found in the Shenandoah National Park, officials said Saturday. Based on the preliminary identification of the remains, the search for Julia Christine Devlin has been suspended, the park said in a news release.
(By Marlene Daut, professor of African diaspora studies) A specialist in Haitian literary and historical studies from the University of Virginia, Marlene L. Daut has selected four Haitian-authored novels that sit with the contradiction between pride over the revolution for freedom and independence from France in 1804, and frustration over continuous foreign meddling, along with many others.
(Commentary by Robert Fatton, Julia A. Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs) The July 7 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was the brutal culmination of the country’s decades-long crisis. As investigators scramble to identify those who commandeered, financed and carried out the murder, there’s much more to this story. Irrespective of the individuals responsible, it is the zero-sum politics rooted in old and deep structures of inequality and widespread poverty that provides the context for the assassination of Haiti’s president.
(Editorial) Five years ago, we thought we’d seen a solution for substandard medical care at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. Although progress has been recorded — including through the efforts of a new medical director from UVA Health — a recent report still finds serious flaws.
The state already directly manages health care in facilities where it doesn’t rely on Armor. Officials took their first step away from the company in 2018 after settling a lawsuit that alleged poor medical care at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, where care had been overseen by the company. The state has since installed a doctor from University of Virginia as health director and, while the department is far from meeting the terms of the settlement, court-appointed monitors reported the state has made progress toward improving care.
At UVA Health, health leaders worked to establish a culture of data-driven decision-making with clinicians, with data science guides clinicians in finding opportunities for improvement, designing and implementing interventions, and evaluating impacts.
Schools and districts were making these purchasing decisions without sufficient data around which tools work where or why, says a new report, which is a collaboration between the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development and the EdTech Evidence Exchange.
With many employers welcoming their staff back to the office, it could be that you’re reuniting with colleagues for the first time in 18 months. But is it a joyful return to the ways of old, or do you detect a drop in creativity and energetic spark? Dating app Bumble gave its employees a week off, but you may need to take your own steps as you return to the office. Is a week’s holiday enough to sort things out? It will certainly confer immediate benefits, because recipients will feel understood and valued. It’s also likely to increase company loyalty: Bradford Wilcox at the University of Virgi...
A computer microchip feature that boosts a processor’s speed also could give away secrets, including passwords, to the right hacker, a University of Virginia engineering school research team has discovered.
If you thought infants seem to have minds of their own, you would not be wrong. A University of Virginia researcher has found that babies are born with connected neural pathways in their brains that give the tiny humans their own behavioral traits.
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered a previously unknown repair process in the brain that they hope could be harnessed and enhanced to treat seizure-related brain injuries.
As general counsel around the country joined a call Friday for legal departments to include more people with disabilities, Sidley Austin associate Matt Simpson was unknowingly helping to make their point — by preparing to represent the U.S. in the Paralympic Games in Tokyo next month. Simpson, who was on the U.S. goalball team that won a silver medal in the 2016 Paralympics in Brazil, joined Sidley's white-collar litigation practice seven months ago and thought his Paralympics days were over. "But Sidley has been incredibly supportive" of his continuing on the team, said the University of Virg...
American Kristine O’Brien advanced with the United States to the final of the women’s eights at the Sea Forest Waterway on Saturday, the first full day of competition at the Tokyo Summer Olympics. The U.S. won its preliminary heat in a time of 6:08.69 and is now in position to win its fourth consecutive gold medal. O’Brien, a 2013 graduate from the University of Virginia, is competing in her first Olympics.
Slovenia played its first-ever Olympic basketball game against Argentina early Monday morning, and Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic ran wild to guide his country to an exhilarating 118-100 victory. While Doncic was the maestro behind Slovenia's success, University of Virginia product Mike Tobey put together an admirable performance of his own. Tobey, 26, led the team with 14 rebounds and finished with 11 points while making 63% of his buckets.