Virginia sits at the crossroads of the American project. One path leads towards preserving our democratic progress; the other, towards grievance, division, and spectacle. We believe the governor’s election on November 4, at its core, is a referendum on that choice....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
“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...
