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.
Apart from telling people he’s actually seen murder videos that only the CIA has, and that he would arrest the leader of a Middle Eastern nation and throw him in jail, former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe says he’s “seriously considering” challenging President Donald Trump in 2020.
As a leader in Washington, one that put action and effort above rhetoric, out-going Republican Congressman Scott Taylor (VA-2) said his primary goals upon becoming an elected representative were to expand the military, help veterans through post-active duty care and other areas, and to help improve the Virginia Beach and Eastern Shore economies. Perhaps this list of accomplishments teamed with a renewed sense of Republican values and a strong will can lead Taylor to victory again down the road as he keeps his options open.
Richmond-based Dominion Energy forecasts that the renewable natural gas project using manure from Smithfield Foods hog farms will prevent “10 billion cubic feet of methane from entering the atmosphere, the equivalent of removing 120,000 vehicles from the road.”
One described last night’s Loudoun County School Board meeting as if it were staged in Portland, Oregon, as jazz hands complemented public comments dedicated as an opposition to the potential weakening of the religious exemption of homeschoolers.
Solar energy is coming back to revive places that were left in the past when coal became a little wanted energy resource, with Virginia near the forefront of the national trend. If completed, the projects would add 1.5 megawatts of solar energy production to the burgeoning industry in the Commonwealth, with more expected to come in the near future.
Delegate Dave LaRock (R-Loudoun) said recently on his campaign website, “[The LCSB] took advantage of the resignation of a conservative member, the absence of another conservative member due to a family health emergency, and some sly language to sneak through some policy positions that should concern all of us.”
Although President Donald Trump has commonly remarked that “tariffs are the greatest,” it seems that rural America bailouts are not helping stave off farming bankruptcies in the heartland.
Members of the Northam Administration claim that these fiscal overruns have nothing to do with the expansion of the healthcare program under the Obama-era federal Affordable Care Act, which has led the state to extend coverage to over 300,000 low-income Virginians. They explained that it will help save the state money, but that will continue until the federal government rescinds the plan, leaving Virginia to pick up the bill somewhere down the road.
On Monday morning, President Donald Trump took to Twitter criticizing the special counsel’s handling of the investigation. The commander-in-chief is demanding that Mueller interview the “hundreds” of other campaign employees and associates involved in the 2016 election who had no contact with Russia.
