Mike Barber

Mike Barber is the editor-in-chief at Cville Right Now. Reach him by email at mbarber@cvillerightnow.com.

UVA Sports
3 months ago
UVA hopes to build fan engagement through free admission to some Olympic sports

Admission will be free for UVA men’s and women’s soccer, women’s lacrosse and softball home regular-season games starting this fall.

UVA
3 months ago
UVA names Jennifer Davis acting president

Jennifer “J.J.” Wagner Davis, the University of Virginia’s chief operating officer, will serve as the institutions acting president following the resignation of Jim Ryan.

UVA Sports
3 months ago
Back from injury, Elijah Gertrude returns to a new-look UVA basketball program

Elijah Gertrude is the lone scholarship returner for UVA basketball.

Education
3 months ago
Outside of DOJ official’s CNN appearance, Republicans largely mum on Ryan resignation

Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for Civil Rights and herself a UVA law graduate, defended the Department of Justice’s aggressive posturing that led to the resignation of University of Virginia president Jim Ryan on Friday.

Education
3 months ago
Protestors take to UVA’s Rotunda to denounce Trump Administration for forcing out President Jim Ryan

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the University of Virginia’s fabled Lawn and Rotunda on Friday afternoon to protest after UVA president Jim Ryan was pressured to resign by the Trump administration.

Education
3 months ago
UVA president Jim Ryan resigns in face of pressure from Trump Administration

University of Virginia president Jim Ryan has informed the school’s Board of Visitors he will resign, the New York Times reported Friday, bending to pressure from the Trump Administration.

Education
3 months ago
Reaction to pressure on UVA president to resign splits along partisan lines

Unsurprisingly, reaction to news that the Trump administration is attempting to pressure University of Virginia president Jim Ryan to resign split along party lines.

Entertainment
3 months ago
Z95.1 and C-Ville Country nab first-place VAB honors

Z95.1 won a pair of first-place awards and sister station 92.7 C-Ville Country picked up another at the Virginia Association of Broadcasters Summer Convention last week in Virginia Beach.

Election
3 months ago
Republicans set joint campaign appearance while Democrats tout more unified ticket

Republicans announced plans to kickoff July with a joint campaign appearance for their November ticket of Winsome Earle-Sears, John Reid and Jason Miyares, an attempt to end the drama surrounding the trio’s apparent lack of cohesion.

Election
3 months ago
Hashmi shares personal tale of lost pregnancies during Spanberger’s Charlottesville appearance

Abigail Spanberger and her Democratic ticket-mates continued their bus tour of the Commonwealth with a stop in Charlottesville on Tuesday night.

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