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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, […]
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 […]
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-Utah) sent letters to the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and NewsGuard Inc. seeking additional information on the January 25th agreement that would put NewsGuard’s ‘anti-misinformation’ product in the classrooms of AFT’s more than 1.6 million members. The […]
GOP nominee for Virginia’s 10th Congressional District Hung Cao said his top priorities if he’s elected to Congress will be the economy and national security. “We have to stabilize this economy. This is spiraling out of control,” Cao told The Virginia Star. “We have to cut spending. This is not just about my kids and your […]
After decades in a mental hospital following a successful insanity defense, John Hinckley Jr. will be unconditionally released this month. U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman announced Wednesday that Hinckley’s release date is June 15. Hickley nearly killed President Ronald Reagan and severely wounded White House Press Secretary James Brady outside of the Washington Hilton in March 1981. He also shot […]
RICHMOND, Virginia — The Republican-controlled House of Delegates and the Democrat-controlled Senate finally sent a budget compromise for Fiscal Year 2023 beginning July 1 to Governor Glenn Youngkin on Wednesday, but while leaders from both parties praised the budget, individual Democrats and Republicans criticized the compromise for problems ranging from no gas tax holiday to cuts […]
On Tuesday in Virginia’s capitol, Governor Youngkin ceremonially signed five bills that deliver on the Governor’s commitment to enact common sense solutions to make government work better for Virginians and provide solutions for the Commonwealth’s business community. According to the official announcement, one of the bills is meant to help the struggling Virginia Employment Commission […]
RICHMOND, Virginia — Delegate Don Scott Jr. (D-Portsmouth) is the new Democratic leader/minority leader in the Virginia House of Delegates, elected on Wednesday morning. Scott had pushed to oust then-Minority Leader Eileen Filler-Corn, who was voted out at the end of April, but at that time the caucus opted to delay a vote on a new leader to […]
While transgender college athlete Lia Thomas is doing vanity interviews about their reasons for swimming, the doctors at the Mayo Clinic have confirmed what many already knew; the trans athlete has an unfair advantage over the biologically female competition, even after taking testosterone suppressants. In an interview with The New York Times on Monday, a Mayo Clinic […]
The General Assembly is expected to vote Wednesday on a budget compromise hammered out by top money legislators from House Republicans and Senate Democrats. The proposal includes tax and spending policy, but also includes legislation that would fund lab schools, block a Richmond casino for now, and create new marijuana misdemeanors for possession of more than four […]
