Glenn Youngkin hammered home his commitment to listen to Virginia’s parents on the campaign trail. Now, the governor-elect is showing he doesn’t just talk the talk. On Thursday, Youngkin announced the appointment of two conservative outsiders to the leading positions at the Virginia Department of Education: superintendent and assistant superintendent of public instruction. Bacon’s Rebellion […]
Democrats in the General Assembly are gritting their teeth in anticipation of a rare confirmation fight. Their target? Secretary of natural resources nominee Andrew Wheeler. Wheeler previously served as the head of the EPA during the Trump administration. As The Hill reports: Although Republicans regained control of the state House of Delegates in November’s elections, […]
The then-high school freshman who raped a girl in a Loudoun County high school’s girls’ restroom has received his sentence. The boy, now 15, was spared prison time after one of the victims’ mothers, Jessica Smith, asked that the convicted sex offender receive leniency. Jessica is married to Scott Smith. You may remember Scott as […]
Following two significant bouts of snow to start the new year and a traffic jam that left hundreds stranded, Virginia is bracing for what could be the biggest snow of the season. Parts of the Commonwealth are expecting up to 20″ of the white stuff this weekend. Though who gets what will come down to […]
A Giles County grand jury has indicted a former Virginia state legislator with four counts of embezzlement from his former employer, the county historical society. Joseph Ryan Yost represented the 12th District in the House of Delegates as a Republican from 2012 to 2018. Yost lost reelection in the 2017 House of Delegates elections to […]
Although outgoing Gov. Ralph Northam profusely apologized for being identified as the man in blackface in a now infamous picture, he soon insisted it was a case of mistaken identity. Now, with hours left in his term, Northam says he’s “99% sure” who wore blackface in the photograph on his page of the 1984 Eastern […]
A new report from The Washington Free Beacon details how a Virginia-based political action committee reportedly paid Clinton confidant Marc Elias a small fortune to lower the expectedly high turnout for the Republican ticket in Virginia’s 2021 elections. The effort was reportedly conceived as a last-ditch attempt to push Terry McAuliffe over the finish line. […]
As the state of Virginia continues to see a rise in misguided COVID policies and CRT lessons, more and more concerned parents are opting to keep their children homeschooled rather than sending them back to school. The Washington Examiner reports: In Virginia, the number of homeschoolers varies among the commonwealth’s counties, with more than 15% […]
A new report today courtesy of Bacon’s Rebellion explains how officials at Virginia’s largest school system felt about imposing race-based admissions at the nation’s best high school. Disclosed text messages between Fairfax school board members Abrar Omeish and Stella Pekarsky show the pair admitting that the controversial admission changes to make Thomas Jefferson High School […]
The Washington Post is marking the last hours of Ralph Northam’s governorship with a puff piece that would make most ideologues blush. The article, penned by reporter Gregory Schneider, called Northam a “wounded healer” who found a “new political footing” after a blackface scandal and became Virginia’s “most consequential” governor in modern times. “A wounded […]
