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If you’re an in-state student at many of Virginia’s four-year colleges, we have good news — your wallet won’t be getting any lighter than last year. For the first time in over a decade, tuition at major Virginia college and universities will be held steady, stopping a trend of eye-popping tuition increases. Republican legislators included $52 million […]

Are there cracks forming in the blue wall of support for a controversial late-term abortion bill? Possibly. In comments posted to her campaign Facebook page last week, Democrat Martha Mugler said she would not have supported House Bill 2491, brought forward by Del. Kathy Tran in late January. “I would have not have supported Virginia […]

Customers of Virginia’s largest utility will see their bills lowered by $33 on average in June, thanks to Federal and state legislation. Dominion Energy customers will get a credit on their June bills, according to the company, as the utility passes on tax savings from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the Republican-sponsored tax cut […]

If the national conversation on abortion is changing, Democrats aren’t listening. Days after Governor Ralph Northam grudgingly signed a new restriction the use of state funding for abortion into law, Virginia Democrats show no sign of backing off from their controversial support for late term abortion. Vice President Mike Pence tweeted his opposition to Northam’s […]

It hasn’t made many headlines, but there’s a major change coming to abortion law in Virginia. Language in the newly-passed Virginia budget bill will for the first time prohibit the use of public funds for abortion except when required by Federal law. Governor Ralph Northam signed the 2019 budget bill containing the language into law […]

Farmers, Realtors, and other professional groups shouldn’t be allowed to form their own health plans, according to Governor Ralph Northam. The reason? Those folks might be too healthy. Northam, a Democrat, vetoed two bills late Thursday that would have allowed trade associations and other professional groups to go outside the current marketplace system set up under Obamacare […]

Governor Northam’s ‘Second Chance Week’ has claimed another legislative casualty. The Democratic governor announced Thursday that he had vetoed House Bill 2528, a bill that  would have made drug dealers who sell synthetic opioids like heroin laced with Fentanyl responsible for the deaths of their customers. The legislation passed both House and Senate with bipartisan majorities. […]

Mandatory minimum sentences have to go, even for crimes of violence, Governor Ralph Northam said Wednesday. Northam, a Democrat, vetoed two bills that would have established mandatory minimum sentences in two instances — a 60-day term for domestic abusers who commit a second act of abuse in 10 years, and six month term for anyone […]

Governor Ralph Northam has vetoed a bipartisan effort to take some of the partisan rancor out of the Virginia State Board of Elections. Northam, a Democrat, issued the veto on Monday, putting an end to this year’s effort to add some bipartisanship to a state department recently accused of political bias. “This was a good-faith […]