Earlier this year, Virginia Republicans froze college tuition for the first time in 20 years. Now the highest ranking Republican in Richmond wants to see it happen again next year. “This is a good first step,” said said House Speaker Kirk Cox, R-Colonial Heights, speaking with WOQI’s Mari and Brian in Lynchburg Friday morning. “Next […]
For a rock aficionado, Democrat Del. Ibraheem Samriah seems to enjoy living in a glass house quite a bit. Samirah, the recently-elected Northern Virginia Democrat with a history of anti-Semitic rhetoric, took to Twitter this week to castigate Republican for having the audacity to accept money from political lobbyists. “Isn’t it a strange coincident hat […]
First came the report, which was inconclusive. Then came the reaction, which was anything but. To say the response to the Eastern Virginia Medical School report on Governor Ralph Northam’s racist photo debacle has been unkind is the understatement of the decade. Governor Northam told WHSV that the report vindicates him. “I think it was […]
NORFOLK — While report commissioned by Eastern Virginia Medical School didn’t break much new ground on who was in the Governor’s infamous photo, it did shed light on why the situation was handled so poorly — the crisis from his abortion comments on WTOP radio. “With respect to the photograph on Governor Northam’s personal page, […]
Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg might feel right at home with Virginia Democrats at their annual gala fundraiser next month. Tax hikes? Yes. Thomas Jefferson? No. Late term abortion? Yes. Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, Ind., staked out a series of controversial positions in the past few days: no restrictions on late-term abortion, higher taxes […]
For months now, Virginia Democrats have been looking for something to put out the political fire started in January by Kathy Tran and Ralph Northam.Now they think they’ve found it, in the form of an interview with Republican Del. Bob Thomas, R-Fredericksburg.Appearing on The John Fredericks Show last week, said he supported legislation such as a law in […]
There was a time not long ago when Virginia’s “right to work” law was sacrosanct, even for Democrats. That was then, this is now. At both the state and Federal level, a number of Virginia Democrats are ramping up their efforts to roll back the Right-to-Work law. Earlier this month Rep. Bobby Scott, D-3rd, introduced […]
Even Federal judges can have second thoughts, apparently. Days after issuing an order overturning a Virginia law holding that only licensed doctors can perform abortions, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson reversed himself, reinstating the rule. Hudson’s initial ruling came in response to pre-trial motions in a suit filed in 2018 that is just now headed […]
Bad apples in the towing industry are a menace to society, yet they largely operate with impunity, writes McCarty.
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 […]
