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Republicans tout voucher proposal; Surovell says it’s unconstitutional

January 17, 2025 / 7 minutes of reading

Gov. Glenn Youngkin emphasized on Thursday that the $50 million proposal would come from the state’s general fund, not from existing education funding. --- Gov. Glenn Youngkin touted his private school voucher proposal on Thursday, pushing back on Democrats’ claims that [...]

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Perdue Farms agrees to $4M settlement in child labor probe

January 16, 2025 / 5 minutes of reading

Perdue Farms has agreed to pay $4 million in restitution to settle a federal investigation into alleged child labor violations at the company’s poultry processing plant on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. In October 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage [...]

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State revenues up $900 million in first six months of fiscal year

January 16, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading

Gov. Glenn Youngkin told the General Assembly budget committees that state tax collections are running almost $900 million ahead in the first six months of this fiscal year. --- With state tax revenues already flush, Gov. Glenn Youngkin delivered more good [...]

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Senators urge Biden to extend Temporary Protective Status

January 16, 2025 / 3 minutes of reading

(The Center Square) – President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportation may encounter some significant hurdles if two Virginia senators succeed in asking President Joe Biden to extend Temporary Protected Status “for all eligible countries.” --- (The Center Square) – President-elect [...]

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Virginia Democrats Push To Enshrine Abortion After The Sixth Month

January 16, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading

Democrats in Virginia have learned nothing from the outcome of the November elections. Even though voters overwhelmingly rejected the radical abortion ideology of Kamala Harris and other Democrats last fall, legislators in the Commonwealth continue to double down on [...]

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Spanberger and Earle-Sears neck-and-neck in fundraising battle

January 16, 2025 / 5 minutes of reading

The Virginia governor’s race is heating up as the latest fundraising reports reveal an early financial showdown between former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who is seeking the Democratic nomination, and Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the likely Republican nominee. Both [...]

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Supreme Court seems open to age checks for online porn; Virginia has similar law

January 16, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading

Other states with similar laws include Tennessee, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Utah and Virginia. --- LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed open to a Texas law aimed at blocking kids from seeing online pornography, though [...]

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Youngkin, GOP lawmakers push for transgender sports ban

January 16, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading

Republican lawmakers, joined by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, Attorney General Jason Miyares and student athletes, gathered on Wednesday to support legislation that would bar transgender students from participating in school sport teams inconsistent with their biological [...]

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GOP leaders call for ban on trans women in women’s sports

January 15, 2025 / 7 minutes of reading

Virginia’s top Republicans joined hands to call on the General Assembly to keep transgender women – who they called “biological males” – out of women’s sports. --- Virginia’s top Republicans joined Wednesday to call on the General Assembly to keep transgender [...]

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Workers at a California senior home race to evacuate residents in wildfire

January 15, 2025 / 7 minutes of reading

About 850 patients and residents of nursing, assisted living and group homes were evacuated, the state Department of Public Health says. --- Dinner service at the Terraces at Park Marino in Pasadena, California, was about half over, and residents gathered in [...]

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