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Rep. Don Beyer introduced this measure knowing that study after study shows that one of the safest places to be in this pandemic is in a commercial jet. Like Biden’s heavy-handed edicts, it also ignores the presence of 41 million Americans who have been infected with Covid-19 and likely have natural immunity that may protect better against Covid-19 than vaccinations.
Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin is proposing to reduce Virginians’ taxes in much the same way Governor Ralph Northam raised them
The Standards of Learning pass rates for Virginia public school students were grim this year, showing declines of 20 to 25 percentage points in history, math and science from the 2018-19 school year.
As one of his final acts as governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo granted clemency to David Gilbert, a member of the terrorist group The Weather Underground, who was sentenced to 75 years to life for the infamous 1981 Brink’s Robbery that left two police officers and one security guard dead
Gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe calls the outcry over Critical Race Theory in Virginia public schools as a “right-wing conspiracy.” Governor Ralph Northam terms it “a dog whistle that Republicans are using to frighten people.”
What should Virginia’s energy policy be? What should the next Governor and General Assembly do? What should candidates be promising?
The Northam administration has issued new guidelines urging unvaccinated students and staff to keep wearing masks in K-12 schools this fall — but won’t require them to do so.
The Northam administration has been an unmitigated disaster when it comes to mental health. That’s ironic, when you consider the damage the governor’s prolonged lockdowns, fruitless mask mandates and shuttered schools did to the mental health of vulnerable Virginians.
Given the limited resources available for mental health, am I the only one wondering why federal dollars are being directed to people terrified to come out from under their beds now that the Covid emergency is over?
If you want to be governor of Virginia again, start by having some respect for the voters.
The State Board for Community Colleges has told Patrick Henry Community College (PHCC) to change its name. The issue: Henry owned slaves.
Virginia is expected to close out the year with a $2 billion budget surplus. An estimated $900 million is required under the state constitution to go into a rainy day reserve fund. That leaves roughly $1.1 billion for the next General Assembly and Governor of Virginia to play with.
In a state hellbent on legalizing all manner of gambling, the ban on skill games is punitive and unfair.
In the recording of the Justice High school speech that I watched, the cameras were fixed on the speaker. There was no way to know how many - if any - parents marched up to their offspring, yanked them from their seats and dragged them away from this appalling claptrap.
As protesters marched in many Virginia cities last year in protest of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn., many Virginia politicians suggested that the kind of police abuses occurring in other states were endemic here in Virginia.
McAuliffe, Ayala and Herring: These three Democrats all have on thing in common. They all boldly called on Gov. Ralph Northam to resign in February of 2019, when racist photos on his medical school yearbook pages surfaced.
If the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike can sit in restaurants without wearing masks why are we forcing kids into masks when they sit at their desks?
The McAuliffe and Northam Parole Boards have been refitting Virginia’s prisons with the revolving doors that came off in 1995 when the commonwealth abolished parole.
