Miyares Sets up Group to Investigate Organized Retail Crime

Virginia’s Attorney General is taking firm action against organized retail crime in Virginia, a problem he says is harming businesses across the Commonwealth. Miyares’s office has convened a working group pursuant to a legislative request to address organized retail crime in the Commonwealth. Membership of the working group includes representatives from the Office of the […]

Virginia Budget Deal Cuts School Choice Program by More than Half

by Tyler Arnold   The Virginia budget deal, which passed both chambers of the General Assembly, would cut funding for a school choice tax credit program by more than half of its current funding. The Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits Program provides a 65% tax credit for individuals or businesses who make donations for scholarships […]

Longtime Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Criminally Charged

The Justice Department has charged Peter Navarro, White House trade adviser to former President Trump, with two counts of contempt of Congress. The indictment carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison and a $200,000 fine. It follows Navarro’s decision to ignore subpoenas from the Jan. 6 committee. As The New York Times reports: Prosecutors say that […]

Youngkin Signs Bipartisan Legislation To Expand Health Care Coverage Options For Small Businesses

Small businesses in Virginia are about to have a lot more options for healthcare, courtesy of some new legislation Governor Glenn Youngkin has signed. Governor Glenn Youngkin ceremonially signed HB 884, sponsored by Delegate Kathy Byron, R-Bedford, and SB 195, sponsored by Senator Montgomery “Monty” Mason, D-Williamsburg, which will permit the creation of benefits consortiums for small businesses […]

Polls: Youngkin Has Positive Job Approval, Biden Approval Declining

Governor Glenn Youngkin has net positive job approval in two polls released Friday. A Roanoke College poll has the governor at 53 percent approval and 35 percent disapproval while a Public Policy Polling survey has him at 43 percent approval, 34 percent disapproval. The Roanoke results are up from 50 percent approval in February, although the PPP results are […]

VA-07 GOP Race: Reeves’ New Ad, Green Beret PAC Backs Anderson, Vega Says No on Ukraine Aid Packages

In the race for the GOP nomination for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, Derrick Anderson received an endorsement from a new PAC; Yesli Vega called for spending on the U.S. border, criticizing a recent Ukraine spending package; and State Senator Bryce Reeves (R-Spotsylvania) launched his second television ad, highlighting his “anti-woke” stance. “I don’t mean to […]

Discredited Democrat ‘Intelligence Experts’ Now Shilling for Partisan Big Tech

ANALYSIS – Some of the same group of Democrat intelligence experts (aka partisan hacks) that spewed disinformation about the Hunter Biden laptop being a Russian intelligence operation, are now paid shills for the leftist Democrat disinformation industry known as Big Tech. As I wrote about then, by falsely claiming the Hunter laptop was Russian disinformation, “over 50 former senior former U.S. intelligence […]

City of Richmond Officials, Casino Developers Threaten Legal Action After General Assembly Blocks 2022 Casino Referendum

The recently-passed Fiscal Year 2023-2024 budget includes language blocking the City of Richmond from holding another casino referendum until November 2023. Richmond officials have called for a 2022 referendum after voters rejected a casino in 2021, but State Senator Joe Morrissey (D-Richmond) is instead pushing for Petersburg to be granted a casino license, and on Thursday afternoon, […]

Newt Gingrich Commentary: Punishing Pennsylvania, Liberating Virginia

by Newt Gingrich   Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolfe and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin are moving their states in opposite directions. Gov. Youngkin is focused on lowering the cost of living and improving Virginia’s appeal as a place to do business. Boeing’s recent announcement that it is moving from Illinois to Virginia is an example of […]