Locals Kevin and Laura Wilson have spent nearly two years working toward one goal, opening Camp Yellow Cardinal. Everything was finally lining up: the land cleared, the permits approved, the financing in place. Now it all depends on a boat, and...
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Poll: Virginians really don’t like Trump or the direction he’s taking the country
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...
VA environmentalists say budget hurts efforts to protect Chesapeake Bay
RICHMOND – Environmental groups are outraged at the Trump administration’s proposed funding cuts for Chesapeake Bay cleanup programs. President Donald Trump’s budget plan, released last week, reduces the budget for the federal Environmental Protection Agency by 31 percent. That includes a $427 million in funding to address regional pollution,...
Governor vetoes Republicans’ ‘educational choice’ legislation
RICHMOND – Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Thursday vetoed several bills that Republicans say would have increased school choice but McAuliffe said would have undermined public schools. Two bills, House Bill 1400 and Senate Bill 1240, would have established the Board of Virginia Virtual School as an agency in the executive branch of state government to...
Planned Parenthood advocates drop off thousands of signatures opposing ACA repeal with Congressman Dave Brat’s local office
Representatives from the Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia (PPAV) stopped by Congressman Dave Brat’s Glen Allen office Wednesday afternoon to drop off petitions urging him to vote against repealing the Affordable Care Act and any cuts to abortion access. Brat has already said he'd vote against the bill, but not for the reasons PPAV would...
Documenting the forgotten contributions of Black legislators
RICHMOND – At the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867-1868, James Carter, who represented Chesterfield and Powhatan counties, introduced a resolution requiring students to attend public school for at least three months a year. Also at the convention, James William D. Bland, who represented Appomattox and Prince Edward counties, called for...
VA Democrats suggest Trump skip Florida vacations to make up for elimination of Chesapeake Bay funds
Despite promising to take no vacations during his presidency, Trump had spent 31% of his time as president playing golf at his resort in Mar-a-Lago, FL, to a tune of about $3 million each in tax payer funding. After releasing a budget calling for the elimination of funds to clean up the bay ($73 million last year) Virginia's state Democratic...
Gov. McAuliffe expected to sign marijuana reforms
RICHMOND – Virginia probably will ease up a bit in its laws against marijuana by making it easier for epilepsy patients to obtain cannabis extract oils and by relaxing the penalty for people caught with small amounts of marijuana. Gov. Terry McAuliffe is expected to sign the handful of marijuana-related bills passed by the General Assembly during...
Virginia21 works to empower millennials on issues young voters care about
Tim Cywinksi, Communications Director for non-profit organization Virginia 21, excitedly pulled out his phone to show me a video. “Here’s the line…” he said, enlarging the video and turning the volume up. The video panned over the line of VCU students outside their polling place near the campus, waiting in the dark, at 7:45 AM on Election Day....
OpEd: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the democratic Gubernatorial Primary
“Nothing hurts any more, until the consequences crash through the screen. Immersed almost permanently in virtual worlds, we cannot check what we are told against tangible reality. Is it any wonder that we live in a post-truth era, when we are bereft of experience? … The shrinking of our contact with the tangible world has taken place at a speed...
