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Governor Ralph Northam’s treatment of Democrats who work with Republicans shows that the “Virginia Way,” may be too partisan political principle to embody in the legislature.
“The facts were not the point after all, we get that now,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY said during a speech Friday morning. McConnell wants Republicans, after this debacle of a bitterly divided confirmation hearing process to, “send a message to the American people…facts matter, fairness matters, the presumption of innocence is sacrosanct.”
The Virginia Democrat believes that not making the FBI’s the findings of Judge Kavanaugh’s personal life public is an “insult to Americans.”
What if tariffs are harming the costs of production and increasing the prices of producers?
#MeToo and the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh have the nation asking some very important questions about our sexual ethics. Are they too ambiguous or too clear-cut? Too prudish or too loose?
“As a deeply religious person…[abortion] is unchristian to me,” Chelsea Clinton concluded when asked about Roe v. Wade, also claiming the “legalization of abortion” in the 1970s created an economic boom of $3.5 trillion dollars in growth.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta forecasts GDP growth at 4.1 percent in Q3 as chairman of the U.S. central bank Jerome Powell said at a conference that more economic growth is in store after half century-low jobless claims and a target goal of two percent inflation.
The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP) that applied to approximately 500 streams and wetlands to be crossed by the Mountain Valley Pipeline in southern West Virginia. The court wrote, “If any part of a project requires an individual permit, then the NWP does not apply and all portions of the project must be evaluated as part of the individual permit process.” The sites must now be stabilized.
As Virginia’s $25 billion tourism industry is now the fifth largest employer, big production companies like Netflix and looking to make the Commonwealth their next home for their expansive production plans.
Following Governor Ralph Northam’s call to veto the GOP plan for legislative redistricting, Speaker of the House of Delegates Kirk Cox (R-Colonial Heights) said, “After weeks of feigning interest, the governor has admitted at last that he wants federal judges appointed by President Obama to draw a redistricting map to deliver a Democratic majority in the House of Delegates.”
