Masks are no longer required to travel at airports or other forms of public transportation nationwide, including the DC/Virginia metro. Following a lawsuit, a federal judge in Florida has voided President Biden’s national mask mandate, saying that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention failed to justify the mask order, and also did not follow […]
A federal lawsuit in Norfolk has accused a towing company of illegally seizing and selling vehicles belonging to service members deployed overseas. In the lawsuit filed on Friday, federal officials accuse Steve’s Towing of Virginia Beach of illegally seizing and selling vehicles belonging to seven service members, including a SEAL Team member while he was […]
Jonathan George Skocik, a staff member at John Jenkins Elementary School in Woodbridge was arrested Friday after an investigation by police and Child Protective Services found him to be suspected of sexually assaulting several children at the school. According to a report from Fox News, Skocik was removed last month during the investigation, where it was […]
Virginia’s economic outlook has continued its precipitous drop and now barely ranks in the top half among the American states.
A marquee issue for the Youngkin administration is getting some much-needed attention, as plans are being drawn up to streamline the complicated regulatory and permitting processes for environmental projects. According to The Virginia Mercury, the Chief environmental officials in Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration say that one of their primary priorities during the next four years […]
When schools pivoted to remote learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the first casualty was kids’ mental health. A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analyzed teenagers’ mental health from January 2021 to June 2021. Compared with 2019, the study found that the proportion of mental health–related emergency department visits in 2020 increased […]
One side effect of the Virginia-wide vaccine mandates for healthcare workers seems to be stories like this one, which may prompt Bedford County’s Board of Supervisors to sell the Bedford County Nursing Home. Established as the County Poor Farm in 1831, it is one of the few county-owned nursing facilities in Virginia. It even traces […]
A Virginia-based church group had lines around the block this weekend as drivers receive $50 worth of free gas from the group. Located in Alexandria, Virginia, the Alfred Street Baptist Church gave away gas to 300 cars at three different locations — Royal Farms on Forestville Road in District Heights, Exxon on Little River Turnpike in […]
In preliminary results of a mental health survey of first responders released by the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police (VACP), 21 percent of those who completed the survey indicated problems with alcohol, 20 percent had clinically significant scores for anxiety, and 19 percent had clinically significant scores for depression. VACP officials think that understates […]
After facing a round of protests from some of the students, Former Vice-President Mike Pence spoke at an event at the University of Virginia to a sold out crowd of roughly 850 people. The event was hosted by the Young America’s Foundation at UVA and allowed Pence the chance to speak about the ‘woke left.’ […]
