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Libre Action, the Libre Initiative’s campaign arm of a major Hispanic advocacy group within megadonor and billionaire Charles Koch’s political network has endorsed Republican Yesli Vega for a House district in Virginia. Vega, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger in Virginia’s 7th district, has made a lot of headlines speaking out for the Hispanic community. After being chosen […]
“A one hour Critical Race Theory experience disguised as a tour.”
There’s a new three-digit lifeline that people in mental health crises can call or text to get immediate help: 988. Launched nationwide on Saturday, the program was created through bipartisan federal legislation signed in 2020 to address the growing need for suicide prevention. Suicide has been one of the leading causes of death in the […]
The Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association (VHHA) launched an online tool to direct consumers to price transparency documents, including estimates and services pricing for hospitals across Virginia. VHHA President and CEO Sean Connaughton said in a press release, “This new online tool continues a long tradition of Virginia hospitals promoting transparency about health care prices, the COVID-19 […]
Governor Glenn Youngkin ceremonially signed State Senator Siobhan Dunnavant’s (R-Henrico) SB 774 to allow the use of “bus boxes” underneath school buses to deliver packages – an invention of Clueless Robotics, a team of middle school students from Saint Bridget Catholic School. Two boxes per bus yield a 22-square foot capacity aimed at solving the […]
Attorney General Miyares has paid a visit to a pregnancy center that was vandalized and offered support to the center in the face of intimidation. As previously reported, police in Lynchburg Virginia are investigating an act of vandalism that took place at the Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center that was vandalized by four masked individuals. Police […]
Representative Don Beyer (D-VA-08) and Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) have introduced legislation to rename the “Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial” to “Arlington House National Historic Site.” “As our country and our Commonwealth grapple with the history of racism and slavery and engage in a long-overdue reexamination of public symbols, we have an opportunity […]
Governor Youngkin and the Virginia Department of Health have updated COVID-19 quarantine guidance for early childhood education. The updated guidance on quarantine procedures following exposure to COVID-19 in school, child care and camp settings outlines that quarantine is no longer routinely recommended after exposure to COVID-19 infected individuals in child care, K-12 schools, and camp […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Area Port of Norfolk-Newport News seized 118,566 pairs of “counterfeit cotton foot coverings” – diabetic socks worth about $1.9 million in retail if they were authentic. CBP officers “certainly do not suffer from cold feet when it comes to enforcing intellectual property rights laws,” a CBP press […]
A new lawsuit by a former student from the Fairfax County Public Schools alleges that the school district turned a blind eye to horrific sexual abuse in a middle school in 2012, with staff members showing more compassion for an alleged attacker than for the victim. As reported in the Daily Wire, the allegations have come […]
