“Concern over immigrant welfare use is justified, as households headed by non-citizens use means-tested welfare at high rates,” says the Center for Immigration Studies as President Trump looks to the DHS proposal that will enforce “public charge[s]” to non-citizen immigrants that use public assistance programs.
Martinsville’s Opioid Problem To Be Looked At With New Eyes By Virginia Tech
Patients in the City of Martinsville are prescribed more opioids than anywhere else in the country. In fact, doctors and clinicians in the area, which is home to just under 14,000 residents, prescribed almost 4,090 morphine milligram equivalents per person, with the national average being 640 milligram equivalents per person.
Chevrolet’s Volt: A Car For The Future That Never Was
General Motors is cutting jobs in the restructuring of their company as cars that were subsidizing by the Obama-era White House have lost their hyped appeal and are not selling anymore in a future world that never came. With cheap oil and a deregulatory state, look for the SUV, crossover, and light-duty truck market to be dominated by the big-three American automakers.
Democrats Grill Virginia’s Former Chief Election Official In Senate Hearing
Donald Palmer, Trump’s nominee for the Election Assistance Committee (EAC), told the Senate committee – on which Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) sits but was not in attendance – that he is committed to expelling voter fraud. However, that has not stopped Democrats from criticizing the President’s appointment.
House Speaker Kirk Cox Proposes Moving 2019 Primary Elections Ahead Of SCOTUS Decision On Redistricting
“Moving the date of the primary elections for the House of Delegates, and all of the deadlines and requirements that stem from that date, is fair and reasonable for all parties — especially the voters,” Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Kirk Cox (R-Colonial Heights) said in his 33-page request to the Eastern District Court as a decision on redistricting in the Commonwealth from the U.S. Supreme Court is set to come in 2019.
FACTCHECK: Clean Virginia Gives Misguided Claims About ‘Rigged’ Electric Company Bills
The driver of large electric bills is Virginia’s high consumption of the resource in a majority of households, which are in the top ten of consumers in the U.S., behind seven others. The Commonwealth also has the 17th-lowest residential rates, showing that the corruption claims from Clean Virginia against Dominion Energy, Appalachian Power, and other electric utilities colluding with state lawmakers are inaccurate.