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Among the bills signed into law by Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin Friday, one will end the practice of preferential treatment of prospective students who have ties to alumni or donors to Virginia’s top colleges. NBC News reported: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed a bill banning the consideration of legacy to public universities, making the commonwealth […]
Waste, fraud, abuse…budget cutters of old used these three words to describe the federal government’s poor stewardship of taxpayer dollars. Such charges were frequently derided as the rumblings of anti-government know-nothings. However, the evidence continues to mount that waste, fraud, and abuse are standard features of federal spending. And according to the Government Accountability Office, […]
Governor Glenn Youngkin has included two anti-gun bills on the list of legislation he vetoed Friday. The Virginia Mercury reported: Youngkin didn’t look so favorably on two bills dealing with gun safety. He vetoed legislation that would have tightened rules requiring people credibly accused or convicted of domestic abuse to give up any firearms. The […]
The last time the General Assembly made a similar mistake with the Virginia tax code was 20 years ago. It was 2004, and the complaints that business was not “paying its fair share” came from Republicans in the House. They introduced and quickly pushed through a bill that stripped sales tax exemptions from multiple categories of business. Sound familiar? Twenty […]
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin finally endorses former President Donald J. Trump.
Virginia AG Jason Miyares becomes the first statewide Virginia elected official to do so.
America’s 45th President Donald Trump has won the presidential preference primary which took place in the Commonwealth of Virginia on Tuesday, March 5th. 14 other states and American Samoa also held primary elections today. As of 9:30 PM EST on Tuesday, March 5th, Donald Trump has one every single race called thus far. Trump was […]
Saturday, March 2nd, is the last day to vote early in Virginia’s Presidential Preference Primary. The final and official day of the Presidential Primary Election is Tuesday, March 5th. Both Democrats and Republicans have a chance to cast their ballots for their preferred Presidential candidate. The Republican candidates for President who qualified to be on the […]
A group of Congressional Republicans introduced a resolution Friday in support of “continued access to fertility care & assisted reproductive technology, such as IVF.” The group of members – led by South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace – cosponsoring the resolution skews younger and hails from more vulnerable electoral districts than the predominant majority of GOP […]
Earlier this month, three Washington, D.C., police officers were shot after an hours-long stand-off with a man who has now been confirmed to be in the country illegally. Stephen Claude Rattigan, 48, has been held without bond since mid-February and is facing a slew of charges. Per the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia, Rattigan […]
