politics of Virginia

Third-year University of Virginia student Eric Xu and second-year student Eileen Ying started the nonpartisan publication shortly after the 2016 presidential ... “I wanted to be able to write articles that really delved into problems and encouraged students to think more creatively and innovatively about politics.

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McDougle said Tuesday that the budget the House of Delegates adopted April 17 and communicated to the Senate the next day is substantially the same as the one that ended in stalemate March 10 because of the political impasse over Medicaid expansion. “Clearly, we have to see what the revenue ...

RICHMOND, Virginia — So writes Chicago-based artist Deb Sokolow in her pamphlet, “A Living Organism at Broad and Belvidere” (2017), commissioned for Declaration, the inaugural exhibition at Virginia Commonwealth University's new Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) — located at the corner of ...

Barbara Bush made countless political trips to Virginia during her husband's campaigns for and service as vice president and president, in addition to his earlier stint as chairman of the ... Marvin Bush graduated from Woodberry Forest, a prep school in Madison County, and the University of Virginia. In 1981 ...

Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, D-Bath, and Del. David J. Toscano, D-Charlottesville, will hold a town hall meeting at Monticello High School on April 25 to discuss the 2018 General Assembly session and get feedback from constituents. The Virginia General Assembly is scheduled to convene for a special session ...

Joe Walton, 42, a Richmond native who has lived in Powhatan County since 2003, is an auditor at Virginia Commonwealth University and a former chair of the Powhatan Board ... Walton said he considers himself in the political middle and considered running as an independent or libertarian for Congress.

Upset with the lack of gun control consideration by Virginia Republicans, Democrats in the House of Delegates are launching their own group to investigate ... The caucus announced Tuesday the “Safe Virginia Initiative” task force, a group chaired by two Northern Virginia legislators that will focus on gun ...

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Emma Brown is hiring staff, managing a budget, building out a schedule and studying voter data, block by block, in a Northern Virginia congressional district that ... In contrast, Kelly Dittmar, a political scientist at Rutgers University's Center for American Women and Politics, recalled excising data on female ...

Gov. Ralph Northam and U.S. Sen. Mark Warner are urging the General Assembly to expand Medicaid, saying such a move would free up money to help schools. On Thursday, the two Democrats sat down with more than 20 teachers, faculty and parents from Richmond Public Schools and surrounding ...

I am proud to report our team came home with the award for Network Long-Form Newscast, for our Sunday public affairs program, “Inside West Virginia Politics.” It's a network show in that it airs on Nexstar Media's five TV stations serving West Virginia. Certainly, we have plenty of political news to “brunch” ...

4) It's part of a big political/cultural trend. ... Its politics are the politics of recognition and empathy. ... Virginia Postrel, former editor of Reason magazine and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the New York Times and Forbes, is a Bloomberg View columnist and author of “The Power of ...

In the seemingly endless political fight over gun laws in Virginia, those opposing new limits have had the upper hand for years with Republicans in .... has been relatively small for most lawmakers during the federal careers, according to records compiled by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics.

Disagreements on sanctuary cities and how to solve the opioid epidemic punctuated a debate Tuesday between candidates seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. Organized by the University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and held at Garrett Hall, the debate ...

WISE — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam returned to the campus of the University of Virginia's College at Wise on Monday to learn more about the college's efforts to expand — which he strongly supported during the campaign. Northam, who participated in a debate here last fall, was outspoken during the ...

The state lags behind Maryland, Pennsylvania and Kentucky, among others, with an average classroom teacher salary of about $51,000, according to data from the Virginia Education Association. Teachers in Virginia make 70 cents for every dollar non-teachers earn, according to The Commonwealth ...

... a panel of experts said at a town hall-style discussion of the issue at Virginia Commonwealth University. "Unfortunately, the U.S. Constitution doesn't come with an operating manual; there is no guide to how amendments should be interpreted," said John Aughenbaugh, a VCU political science professor.

The issue initially garnered incredulous eye rolls from those who say refs can take the heckling. Many said the bill seemed trivial and funny – even delegates on the dais asked whether this rule applies to bad refs who officiate University of Virginia basketball games. Del. Chris Collins, R-Frederick, a football ...

“Public polling in Virginia has a history of being terribly inaccurate,” he said in a statement. “Voters should disregard these polls as they are nearly always wrong, most notably in 2016 and 2017. These types of surveys have devolved into nothing more than a news story for the side that polls favorably.

The focus of the West Virginia teachers' strike has oscillated between teachers deserving better compensation and a more general anxiety about the .... Once it became obvious that the region was a center of the Trump phenomenon, arriving national political reporters saw things, at least partly, through ...

Yet primary elections in the state of Virginia incentivize polarization, and they will continue to sow political divisions if we don't take action. We, as taxpayers, pay for primary elections (over $16 million in 2016 alone), but unlike the general election, they are run by the Democrat and Republican parties.

Frank Wagner, R-Virginia Beach, went for Northam by 8.5 points. “Make no mistake about it — Medicaid expansion is closer to happening in Virginia in the first four months of Northam's governorship than during the four years of McAuliffe's time as governor,” said Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political ...

“Public polling in Virginia has a history of being terribly inaccurate,” he said in a statement. “Voters should disregard these polls as they are nearly always wrong, most notably in 2016 and 2017. These types of surveys have devolved into nothing more than a news story for the side that polls favorably.

This podcast is the newspaper's effort to make politics — often a heavy topic — a little more digestible for a wider audience. The first episode will go live by Tuesday, April 10, before state lawmakers convene in Richmond for a special session to figure out a plan for a two-year budget. It will focus on the ...

“In the struggle over Virginia's gun laws, gun control advocates are winning the money battle — big time,” reported The Virginian-Pilot a few days ago. The story noted that over the past couple of decades gun-control advocates have given $9.1 million to political candates — more than twice as much as the ...