
Ben Cullop outlines tax principles aimed at reinvesting in the middle class
Fifth District Democratic Party congressional nomination candidate Ben Cullop outlined the principles that would guide him on tax reform while in Congress.

Fifth District Democratic Party congressional nomination candidate Ben Cullop outlined the principles that would guide him on tax reform while in Congress.

The Virginia baseball series opener against Yale scheduled for Friday, March 2 has been postponed due to forecast high winds in the Charlottesville area. Virginia and Yale will play a doubleheader on Saturday (March 3) beginning at 1 p.m.

A High Wind Warning has been declared by the National Weather Service and is in effect from midnight tonight to midnight Friday night in the Waynesboro-Charlottesville area.

In one of the wildest finishes imaginable, Virginia (6-3) walked off with a 4-3 victory in 11 innings over William & Mary (1-8) and threw its sixth no-hitter in program history in the process.

Top-ranked Virginia (26-2, 15-1 ACC) closes out its ACC regular-season road schedule by playing at Louisville (19-10, 9-7 ACC) on Thursday, March 1. Tipoff at KFC Yum! Center (22,090) is set for 8 p.m.

Chris Hill, a pioneer in the development of the Virginia vineyard and wine industry, was honored Feb. 23 with the Virginia Vineyards Association’s (VVA) Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Virginia Festival of the Book announces CFA Institute as a sponsor of select 2018 programming to support the Festival’s initiative on diversity, which seeks to increase the diversity of participating authors and attract more diverse audiences to the Festival, which takes place each March in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.

On April 13, the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello will present their highest honors, the 2018 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in Architecture, Citizen Leadership and Law.

The activism of students at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida give us new hope for progress in reversing gun violence. Their passion, borne of grief and love, is inspirational and contagious.

The VMI Keydets have received votes in the latest National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) top-30 poll, which was released by the organization Monday evening.
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