Legislation sponsored by Sen. Mark Peake, R-Lynchburg, had been rushed through the legislature after a Virginia man was killed in a crash in Mecklenburg County. On Monday, Virginia became the second Southern state to ban the popular “Carolina Squat” modifications on pick-up trucks and SUVs, a modification that massively raises the front end of the […]
After 3 months in office, Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration says that it has wiped out a backlog of nearly 250,000 jobless claims it inherited and has reduced the number of unpaid claims pending adjudication to a few thousand. The Virginia Employment Commission, an agency whose performance during the height of the pandemic in 2020 and […]
President Biden unveiled his budget for 2023, totaling $5.8 trillion, with billions allocated to confront Russian aggression and a new tax on the wealthiest Americans. Biden’s proposal includes $32 billion in new spending for law enforcement. As Fox News reports: While progressives have pushed initiatives to defend or abolish police, information on the president’s budget proposal obtained […]
While 2020 and 2021 saw a dramatic shift in the way education was taught, with most schools resorting to remote or hybrid learning in response to the COVID pandemic, the end result appears to be a disaster for Virginia students. Based on reading- and math-assessment data published by Renaissance Learning Inc., Virginia is showing greater […]
A growing trend in Russia’s war in Ukraine, the seventh Russian general has been killed during the conflict. According to reports, Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev, commander of the 49th Combined Arms Army, perished in a strike on his command post at Chirobayevka airfield in Kherson. An advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the press that Gen. […]
Bird flu cases appear to be making a comeback in 2022, and Virginia farmers are worried about what it could mean for the industry. Virginia farmers and agriculture officials are bracing themselves after a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza known as the Eurasian H5 type was detected in a flock of chickens and turkeys […]
An update on the recent hospital visit of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Following a visit hospital visit, Thomas checked into Sibley Hospital last Sunday, where he was diagnosed with an infection and treated with intravenous antibiotics. A Court spokesperson clarified on Monday that Thomas did not have COVID-19. As Voice of America reports: Thomas’ release […]
Nearly 3000 people were incorrectly taxed by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles over the course of two years, as part of a state law that went into effect in July 2020. The “Highway Use Fee,” is a state tax that is intended to tax fuel-efficient and electronic vehicles to “ensure a more fair contribution […]
North Korea has sent a clear message to to president Biden, and that is it’s demand to be taken seriously and a threat. As part of its renewed missile testing under the Biden presidency, North Korea test-fired its largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to date for the first time on Thursday. The first full ICBM […]
Following meeting with the Chinese government in an effort to convince them not to support Russia following worldwide economic sanctions, Phelim Kine at Politico’s China Watch newsletters says that “The Biden administration’s efforts to enlist Chinese government support to isolate and punish Russia for its Ukraine invasion have hit a brick wall.” Kine notes that China is […]
