Sandy Hausman
Charlottesville Bureau ChiefSandy Hausman joined the Radio IQ team in 2008 after living and working in Chicago for 30 years. Since then, she's won numerous national and regional awards for her prolific coverage of the environment, criminal justice, research and happenings at the University of Virginia. Sandy is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Michigan. Contact Sandy at shausman@vt.edu.
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It’s not clear how long it might take for the port of Baltimore to recover from a cargo ship crash that brought down the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The vessel had docked in Norfolk before heading on to Maryland March 22nd. Now, Virginia’s port is ready to handle cargo from other ships bound for Baltimore as Sandy Hausman reports.
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There’s good news this morning from Shenandoah National Park where about sixty firefighters are mopping up. Sandy Hausman spoke with one of those who supervised the fight to contain flames and limit damage to the forest.
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How students who are deaf excel at their sport
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Following a series of brush fires in Albemarle County, officials are offering advice on how to protect your home from future blazes.
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In the last six years 295 people in state prisons have been attacked by guard dogs – and the vast majority of those incidents were in Virginia. Now, Governor Glenn Youngkin has signed a bill that will sharply restrict the use of canines behind bars.
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After three years of research, a team at the University of Virginia’s school of education has released a threat assessment tool that can be used by districts nationwide to prevent violence.
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Virginia prevents anyone who was convicted of a felony from voting, but a federal court says a suit against that law can go forward. The basis for this challenge dates back more than 150 years.
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It might seem an impossible job to recount the last fifty years of American history in a little more than an hour – but a Grammy-winning composer, a Pulitzer prize-winning poet and one of the nation’s top singers of opera will do just that this week at UVA.
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It’s been 50 years since Charlottesville began a bold change to its downtown – closing eight blocks to traffic and turning Main Street into a pedestrian mall that is, today, the heart of the city.
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The Virginia Festival of the Book starts Wednesday and is expected to draw thousands of readers to Charlottesville, but it will also attract some aspiring authors for a unique event called the Write Start Speed Critique.