Spanberger launches new advisory council on jail, prison reforms
The office of Gov. Abigail Spanberger is taking applications from people interested in serving on a new advisory council dedicated to advancing jail and prison reform.
The office of Gov. Abigail Spanberger is taking applications from people interested in serving on a new advisory council dedicated to advancing jail and prison reform.
The governor’s office reported in a release today that the Spanberger administration has restored the right to vote for 66,085 Virginians who were formerly incarcerated after being convicted of felonies.
A pair of state legislators has asked Gov. Abigail Spanberger to call a special session to consider extending the timeframe for reviewing the proposed $67 billion merger of NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger has appointed rising Waynesboro High School senior Aidan Rodriguez to the Student Advisory Board.

Abigail Spanberger might wish she could hit the reset button on the first few months of her gubernatorial term, after getting a look at the numbers from a new poll conducted by L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at VCU.
CNBC moved Virginia back into the third spot in its Top States for Business rankings for 2026, after the state had dropped to fourth last year.
I wasn’t going to write about the recent Abigail Spanberger interview with Politico in which she did a victory lap on data centers, largely because, it’s settled, she won, we’re not going to do anything.
The Virginia Drought Monitoring Task Force is using the bully pulpit of Gov. Abigail Spanberger to encourage us to conserve water use, for obvious reasons – we can’t seem to get it to friggin’ rain.

Gov. Abigail Spanberger said in an interview with VPM posted online on Wednesday that “no one single person should hold up the budget and potentially risk the entire economic stability of the Commonwealth of Virginia.”
Gov. Abigail Spanberger announced a legislative deal to create a retail weed market in Virginia, going back on a May veto after getting intense blowback.
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