When Virginia lawmakers convened at the Capitol last week to hear testimony on how to roll out a retail cannabis market, the room was filled with charts, tax models, and plenty of projections about how much money legalization might generate. Depending on the...
A new poll out of Quinnipiac University confirms what is continuing to be a national trend - folks want legal pot for personal use. While the poll doesn't ask how people should get it (full recreational with state sanctioned sale) it found that possession of small amounts for personal use should not be a crime in the Commonwealth. "They want...
In his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor, Tom Perriello says he would make community college free, raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and confront the Trump administration over its policies on immigration and other issues. Perriello – who has won an endorsement from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders – discussed those topics Monday night...
Virginia Senator Mark Warner hopes to help alleviate the burden of college debt with bipartisan legislation that he is introducing to Congress. The two bills are the Dynamic Repayment Act, co-sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and the Employer Participation in Repayment Act, co-sponsored by Sen. John Thune (R-SD). While the first bill aims to...
While conservative legislators have faced roaring crowds at recent town hall events, local Democrat and freshmen Congressman Don McEachin will return to his district this weekend to hear from his constituents for the first time since heading to DC earlier this year. McEachin, who has long been a friend to numerous progressive causes from women's...
Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner has found himself on the front lines in the fight against President Trump's executive actions and we can now add the nomination of a new Supreme Court Justice to the list. In a statement sent out this morning, Warner (top image left) said he was worried about the future of the Senate if the so called "nuclear...
In continuing his efforts to fight President Donald Trump's travel ban, Attorney General Mark Herring has filed an amicus brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Herring, along with Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh, are leading a coalition of 17 state attorneys urging the court to reject the Trump administration's...
RICHMOND – Gov. Terry McAuliffe has proposed an amendment to restore Virginia’s “one handgun a month” law. The amendment would make it a Class 1 misdemeanor for anyone other than a licensed firearms dealer to purchase more than one handgun within a 30-day period. Virginia limited handgun purchases to one a month in 1993 when Democrats controlled...
President Donald Trump's connections to Russia, and how they could have impacted the election, was front and center as members of the Senate Intelligence Committee spoke this morning, and a Virginia Senator is leading the charge. Interviews for the investigation aren't set to kick off till early next week, but Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the...
A new Poll from Christopher Newport University shows Virginians are not into what President Trump is putting down. This shouldn't come as too much of a surprise - Trump lost the state by about 5% points and his mission to dismantle the Federal Government is bound to not sit well with the 172,000 federal employees who live here. But the new CNU...
