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Freelancers and a few of their fluffy friends from across Northern Virginia gathered over pints at Barnhouse Brewing in Leesburg on Saturday afternoon. At Freelance “Pawlooza” – hosted by the Virginia chapter of Americans for Prosperity – freelancers spent several hours discussing the benefits, trials, and tribulations of choosing non-traditional employment arrangements – and how […]
The International Economic Development Council gave the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development excellence awards for three of the department’s economic development programs: the Community Business Launch, Industrial Revitalization Fund and Growth and Opportunity for Virginia (GO Virginia). “Virginia’s IEDC awards are well-deserved recognition for the ongoing and innovative programs that are supporting our economic […]
The Virginia Department of the Treasury has launched a new program and web-based search to help Virginians access unclaimed money owed to them by businesses. “One in four Virginians has unclaimed property so we encourage all Virginians to search our free website for their unclaimed property,” Virginia Treasurer David Richardson said in a press release. […]
The success of Youngkin’s plan will rise or fall on which elements of it are now translated into successful legislation.
A group of conservative organizations and think tanks announced that they’re exploring litigation related to Virginia’s Offshore Wind Project over concerns that the project could harm endangered North Atlantic right whales. “Unless BOEM [Bureau of Ocean Energy Management] requires extensive, effective, unprecedented protection measures for the North Atlantic right whale immediately, this species is almost […]
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Representative Ben Cline (R-VA-06) said guidelines for funding from the bipartisan infrastructure bill will “hamstring funding for traditional infrastructure such as roads and highways” by favoring public transit, renewable energy, climate resilience, electric vehicle infrastructure, and other projects. “During a time of 40-year high inflation, a crippling […]
Republican challengers in Virginia’s three most flippable congressional districts have released their third-quarter fundraising numbers as just over a month remains before Election Day and early voting has officially started in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Hung Cao – Republican nominee for Virginia’s 10th Congressional District, as well as Jen Kiggans – Republican nominee for Virginia’s […]
The third annual National Conservatism Conference in the US, or NatCon 3, recently took place in Miami, FL. The conference, featuring keynote speakers Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Republican Senators Rick Scott (FL), Marco Rubio (FL), and Josh Hawley (MO), was not at all what I expected as someone who has attended numerous political conferences in […]
Democrats are turning on each other with less than six weeks until the midterm elections. On Friday, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) harshly criticized Democrat leaders House Democrats scrapped plans to vote on legislation banning lawmaker stock trading. In the shocking rebuke, the Virginia Democrat called for new leadership in Congress. “This moment marks a failure of House leadership — […]
There’s nothing more confusing to average folks than military acronyms. The U.S. Army has a lot of them. One that is important for taxpayers to understand is DOTMLPF, pronounced in military parlance “Dot-Mil-P-F.” What in the world does that mean? In short, it stands for Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership (including Education), Personnel, and Facilities. […]
