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Mark Warner had said in the wake of the 2016 presidential election that he was not interested in mounting a run at the White House in 2020, preferring to focus on his work in the U.S. Senate.
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A saying often attributed to the late Senator Everett Dirksen (R-IL) goes, “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” It’s a warning about how easily government spending can spiral out of control.
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Working families are, as usual, getting the short end of the stick from the new Trump-GOP tax law. Huge tax cuts that mostly go to the wealthy and corporations are exploding the national debt, and threaten deep cuts to essential public services like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and education.
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What passes for public policy right now coming out of Washington comes down to a simple litmus test: what pisses off the libs?
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The Joint Democratic Committees of Staunton, Augusta County and Waynesboro will meet on May 8, at 7 p.m. at Staunton City Hall, 116 W. Beverly Street in the City Council Chamber.
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In advance of the Fifth Congressional District Democratic Convention on May 5th, Roger Dean Huffstetler released the following statement today.
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Sixth District Republicans are at odds with each other over how they’re going to nominate a candidate to run for Congress in November. Question of the day: will the discord have any impact on the GOP’s stranglehold on the Sixth District seat?
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The campaigns of Ben Cline, Chaz Haywood, Ed Justo, Kathryn Lewis and Doug Wright to unify behind a plan for the upcoming Sixth District Republican congressional convention.
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Nearly two-thirds of adult U.S. citizens will stay away from the polls during the coming midterm elections, and they say they have given up on the political parties and a system that they say is beyond reform and repair, according to a Suffolk University/USA Today nationwide survey of unregistered and unlikely voters.
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The General Assembly convened a special session on April 11 to resolve the budget impasse. In the meantime, on April 18, we held the annual reconvened, or veto, session to consider the Governor’s amendments to and vetoes of bills. More on that later.
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