Virginia's Public Square
Virginia's Public Square
Patients in the City of Martinsville are prescribed more opioids than anywhere else in the country. In fact, doctors and clinicians in the area, which is home to just under 14,000 residents, prescribed almost 4,090 morphine milligram equivalents per person, with the national average being 640 milligram equivalents per person.
With the lucky first draw among freshman legislators picking offices in downtown Washington, D.C., Virginia’s Congressman-elect Ben Cline chose room 1009 in the Longworth House Office Building, adding that his pick would house “lots of room for visiting constituents.”
Donald Palmer, Trump’s nominee for the Election Assistance Committee (EAC), told the Senate committee – on which Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) sits but was not in attendance – that he is committed to expelling voter fraud. However, that has not stopped Democrats from criticizing the President’s appointment.
The proposal from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would decrease deployment numbers from 5,600 to 4,000, with the extension of the remaining personnel expiring in January.
The driver of large electric bills is Virginia’s high consumption of the resource in a majority of households, which are in the top ten of consumers in the U.S., behind seven others. The Commonwealth also has the 17th-lowest residential rates, showing that the corruption claims from Clean Virginia against Dominion Energy, Appalachian Power, and other electric utilities colluding with state lawmakers are inaccurate.
Apart from telling people he’s actually seen murder videos that only the CIA has, and that he would arrest the leader of a Middle Eastern nation and throw him in jail, former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe says he’s “seriously considering” challenging President Donald Trump in 2020.
Richmond-based Dominion Energy forecasts that the renewable natural gas project using manure from Smithfield Foods hog farms will prevent “10 billion cubic feet of methane from entering the atmosphere, the equivalent of removing 120,000 vehicles from the road.”
One described last night’s Loudoun County School Board meeting as if it were staged in Portland, Oregon, as jazz hands complemented public comments dedicated as an opposition to the potential weakening of the religious exemption of homeschoolers.
Solar energy is coming back to revive places that were left in the past when coal became a little wanted energy resource, with Virginia near the forefront of the national trend. If completed, the projects would add 1.5 megawatts of solar energy production to the burgeoning industry in the Commonwealth, with more expected to come in the near future.
Delegate Dave LaRock (R-Loudoun) said recently on his campaign website, “[The LCSB] took advantage of the resignation of a conservative member, the absence of another conservative member due to a family health emergency, and some sly language to sneak through some policy positions that should concern all of us.”