The windy weather of spring has not come with much rain, which is causing brush fires to spread several acres across Central Virginia on Wednesday. Two bush fires have been reported yesterday. The first brush fire started in Amherst County. Bill Perry with the Department of Forestry says it has burned nearly 45 acres of […]
Governor Youngkin has amended a bill that puts all nine Loudoun County School Board members on the ballot during this year’s November election cycle, a year earlier than planned, alluding to his administration’s ongoing investigation into how the school system handled sexual assaults. “Having accountability and transparency with regards to who represents the parents on […]
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is heading the charge to the Supreme Court to fight against race based high school admissions policies, similar to the one found at Thomas Jefferson High School. The emergency application asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt what he describes as a “discriminatory” and “illegal” admissions process designed to dramatically […]
Alumni from Virginia’s colleges and universities are starting to push back hard.
In yet another update to the already ridicules number of bills signed by Governor Youngkin, the republican governor’s office has announced that he signed off on 700 bills and took action on 841 total pieces of legislation. (RELATED: Youngkin Signs Even More Bills Into Law, Now Over 100) “These bills are all bipartisan and we […]
One has to wonder whether we are truly facing market forces or something a touch more engineered.
A school in Fairfax County is taking steps to curb all time high cellphone use rates during classes. In an email to the Herndon High School community, Principal Liz Noto said that beginning this week, the school will “be implementing a schoolwide policy to stop cellphone and headphone use in all classes.” The announcement comes […]
Gov. Glenn Youngkin has appointed McKenzie Snow, a long-time advocate for school choice and top aide of the former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, as Virginia’s deputy secretary of education. She will join state Secretary of Education Aimee Guidera on the governor’s Cabinet, overseeing instruction in Virginia from pre-kindergarten to higher education. Previously, she served as […]
Hampton Electoral Board Chair David Dietrich has resigned from his position after Governor Youngkin called for his resignation following racist comments he posted on Facebook. In the post, Dietrich used racial slurs to describe then-recently appointed Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Army Lieutenant General Russel L. Honoré. He then proceeded to call for violence […]
On Monday, April 11, Johnny Depp’s long awaited lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard finally began, here in Virginia. Depp is suing Heard for defamation over an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post about being a survivor of domestic abuse. The case is likely to involve allegations from the couple’s troubled marriage, which ended in […]
