A new lawsuit filed against the city of Alexandria claims that the city has been polluting the Potomac River for decades. As reported by WTOP, the lawsuit has been filed by the Potomac Riverkeepers Network, a nonprofit organization that aims to keep water in the Potomac clean from pollution, and claims that claims the city’s […]
Virginia Attorney General proudly announced today that his office has reached a settlement with Ford Motor Company after it allegedly misrepresented certain aspects of its products. The investigation was led by Oregon, Texas, Illinois, Maryland, Vermont and Arizona, and joined by the Attorneys General of 35 other states and jurisdictions. According to ABC, the Commonwealth […]
In memory of those that were slain in the senseless attack in Texas on Tuesday, Governor Youngkin has ordered all flags be flown at half mast. Governor Glenn Youngkin issued the following statement on Tuesday evening: Pursuant to President Biden’s Presidential Proclamation to lower the United States flag, I do hereby order that the flags […]
The Virginia State budget is currently one of the most hotly contested pieces of Virginia legislation, and as the deadline looms closer, Lt. Governor Winsome Sears has taken a firm stance on any further delays. As of now, the General Assembly is set to reconvene its special session on June 1, ahead of a June […]
Governor Youngkin has announced on Tuesday that a peanut company is investing $25 million to automate its production line in Suffolk Birdsong Peanuts announced that its investments will help Birdsong “refurbish and automate its production lines” at the plant, which is one of the company’s five shelling plants across the U.S. “Birdsong Peanuts chose to […]
Governor Youngkin has signed a bill into law that will put a stop to nonprofits donating these funds with a political agenda. As reported by WTOP, the new law in Virginia means private grant money will be mostly off-limits for the state’s election offices and comes after the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a […]
After a grueling back and forth between state legislators, the end may be in sight, as state budget negotiators are telling fellow legislators to set aside June 1 as a possible date to return to the Capitol for a vote. The Virginia state budget has been hotly contested by both sides. Governor Glenn Youngkin and […]
In a recent report, Governor Glenn Youngkin announced that Virginia’s unemployment rate held steady at 3 percent in April, while total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 13,600 jobs. According to BLS household survey data, Virginia’s labor force expanded to over 4.3 million workers in April 2022. Since February of this year, the labor force grew […]
The Loudoun County School Board is seeking to halt the grand jury investigation, convened by Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, into its handling of sexual abuse cases that have taken place in its schools. As previously reported, the Loudoun County School Board is currently under investigation by a special grand jury, as per one of […]
After finally dropping the “Latinx” moniker that almost nobody wanted, Democrats are trying a new tactic in an attempt to reach Latino voters, who’ve been leaving the party en masse. Rather tellingly, they have chosen a rather unfortunate name for their new “signature outreach program.” The new program is called “Adelante,” which means forward or onward. The […]
