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...
President Donald Trump has had a complex history with Virginia... Over the years, he has made campaign contributions to Virginia politicians, including Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, and bought a golf course and vineyard in the state. But Virginia voters favored Hillary Clinton over Trump in last fall's presidential election, and Virginia...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
