Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security asked a simple question yesterday during a congressional hearing: which domestic organizations does the FBI consider the top threats to the country right now? Michael Glasheen, who...
Tomorrow's Democratic primary, pitting incumbent Rosalyn Dance against notorious Richmond political figure Joe Morrissey, will likely decide the 16th District's next State Senator. In the past decade, Joe Morrissey has brandished an AK-47 on the floor of the House of Delegates, spent three months in jail after being convicted of sex crimes, and...
As graduation season approaches, over 720 high school seniors enrolled in the city’s public schools this year hope to change the declining trend that is Richmond’s on-time graduation rate. Richmond Public Schools have been under the spotlight after coming in last in on-time graduation rates in the state in 2018 and second to last in 2017. Of the...
This report was commissioned by Northam's alma mater, not the state of Virginia, and we shouldn't be surprised when it serves its client's aims, writes Rich Meagher. Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS), Ralph Northam’s alma mater, was not able to figure out if Governor Ralph Northam wore blackface in an old yearbook photo. That’s the...
The Virginia Energy Reform Coalition has brought together groups of various political affiliations to push for free-market alternatives to Dominion. With the current divisions between political ideologies in America, the advent of a group like the Virginia Energy Reform Coalition (VERC) can be like a breath of fresh air. VERC is composed of...
Vandals spray-painted 19 swastikas on the walls of the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia last October. A young woman leaving a mosque with her friends in Sterling, Virginia, after nightly prayers in the summer of 2017 was raped and killed. Someone scrawled “F*** God & Allah” across a Farmville mosque in October 2017. Later that...
Virginia has become the first state to ensure that patients will be the ones to see benefit from prescription drug coupons -- not their insurance companies. Last month, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed two bills that will require health insurers to count drug and medicine coupons toward a patient’s deductible. This bill, which will take...
About 7,000 women in Virginia are expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. Certain women — including African Americans and rural residents — are more likely than others to die from the disease. “Oh my God, I’m going to die.” On March 19, 2018, Margrietta Nickens was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. Over the next five months,...
One year after the death of Marcus-David Peters, Chelsea Higgs Wise says that if Richmond wants to talk about equity in matters involving the budget, the city must also talk about equity in matters of law enforcement. It's been one year since Marcus-David Peters became the first Richmonder turned into a hashtag after he was shot to death by a...
For black women, childbirth can be a death sentence. African American women are three to four times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related causes. Last fall, Tanaca McCargo, a Chesterfield native, found out she was expecting her second child. McCargo, who already had a 3-year-old boy, discovered early on that her second...
