Democratic candidates across Virginia are pushing back against early involvement by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in competitive congressional primaries, arguing that national party leaders are shaping races before voters have weighed in. “I'm...
2018 saw the highest number of pedestrian deaths on Virginia roads in ten years. Two major Richmond-area roads were among the deadliest in the state. On a Friday night in October, Katelyn Tilts was walking to a convenience store with a group of friends when she saw headlights coming at her. “A car came around the corner really quickly and was...
The requirement that Medicaid recipients work was a Republican condition of the program's expansion. But with the new Democrat-controlled General Assembly soon to be seated, Governor Northam no longer plans to enforce it. Virginia residents with Medicaid will not be required to work in order to keep their policies since Gov. Ralph Northam halted...
As we approach the start of the 2020 General Assembly session, here's an up-to-date look into an ongoing fight over guns that has the whole Commonwealth concerned. It has been a truly tumultuous month since Virginia’s November elections. Specifically, the conversation around the Second Amendment, gun ownership and potential gun control...
More Americans are working from home, and that’s especially true in Virginia and in the Washington, D.C., metro area, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Nationally, the proportion of workers who work from home rose from 4.3 percent in 2010 to 5.3 percent last year, the data show. Virginia is slightly above the national average,...
A group led by family members of murder victims is petitioning the General Assembly to abolish Virginia's death penalty, arguing that capital punishment "fails victims' families." Christiansburg resident Rachel Sutphin mourns the loss of two men’s lives every day: her father, Cpl. Eric Sutphin, and his killer, William Morva. Morva murdered...
Solar United Neighbors is helping Virginians who care about the environment band together and convert their homes and businesses to solar energy. Joy Loving bought a Prius in 2012. The purchase was the first of two investments she said she made in a personal effort to save money and reduce her carbon footprint. The second: go solar. After...
For Ghazala Hashmi, the first Muslim to serve in Virginia's state Senate, her victory in this month's election is a fortuitous opportunity to make progress for Virginia's more vulnerable communities. “It was back in 2017 that I had a moment of personal crisis,” said Ghazala Hashmi, who defeated incumbent Republican Glen Sturtevant in the race for...
Virginia state Senator-elect Ghazala Hashmi will be the first Muslim to serve in Virginia's legislature, and a lot of racists on social media just can't stop crying about it. Days after Virginia’s legislative elections, racist comments continued to flood news stories about Ghazala Hashmi becoming the first Muslim American to serve in the state...
Nearly 100,000 Virginia children live in high-poverty neighborhoods; that figure includes 15 percent of Virginia's African American children, but only 2 percent of the commonwealth's white children. African American children are more than seven times as likely as white children in Virginia to live in “concentrated poverty” — neighborhoods where...
