Northam Touts Bills on Voting Rights and Campaign Financing
Local legislators sponsoring election-oriented bills.
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Education Issues Take Center Stage
Constituents tell lawmakers to increase teacher pay; ERA, $15 minimum wage and more.
Teachers deserve a pay raise, and Virginia desperately needs to hire more school counselors. These were two of the most prevalent concerns voiced by constituents to members of the Fairfax County legislative delegation, the largest in the Virginia General Assembly.
Democratic Insurgent Versus Republican Moderate
January special election to fill seat vacated by Jennifer Wexton features two familiar faces.
The first election of 2019 might end up being a harbinger of things to come for Republicans, who have seen their presence all but evaporate in Northern Virginia. It could also test the limits of the blue wave that washed over Virginia since Donald Trump was elected president.
From Amazon to Shutdown
Kaine and Warner comment on the topics of the day at Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce roundtable.
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Richmond Priorities: Education and Transit
Fairfax County Supervisors host session with Fairfax General Assembly delegation.
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Sharon Bulova Reflects on Getting Started
Chairman looks forward to ‘more time with family and grandchildren, time for travel, to entertain, to smell the roses.’ In her own words:
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Senate Election is Blast from the Past
Kaine and Stewart both played key roles in 2016; now they’re at the top of the ballot this year.
Elections rarely get do-overs. Winners make victory speeches, and losers slink away to become consultants. But this year’s election for U.S. Senate features two key players in the 2016 presidential election that upended American politics.
$182 Million Sought for Public Safety in Fairfax County
Voters to decide bond referendum to fund improvements to fire stations, criminal justice academy, and courthouse.
Virginia Voters Choose Firebrand
Corey Stewart to lead Republican ticket this fall.
Conservative firebrand Corey Stewart was denied an opportunity to be the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in 2013. And then he came within striking distance of being the party’s standard-bearer in the gubernatorial campaign last year. Now, finally, the chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors has secured a spot at the top of the ticket, bringing his brand of anti-immigrant, pro-Confederate Trumpism to the race against incumbent U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine.