
Analysis: Who will have the advantage heading into next week’s opening presidential debate?
We weren’t even sure we were going to have actual presidential debates in 2020. Now that we are, beginning next week in Cleveland, basically, who ya got?

We weren’t even sure we were going to have actual presidential debates in 2020. Now that we are, beginning next week in Cleveland, basically, who ya got?

The Cook Political Report has changed its rating for the Fifth District congressional race from “Lean Republican” to “Toss Up,” citing a possible “perfect storm” in the making in the sprawling district, which spans from Northern Virginia through Charlottesville to the North Carolina border.

Remember when Virginia was a battleground state? It actually hasn’t been that long since the Commonwealth hadn’t voted blue in a presidential election since LBJ. Not even purple anymore, the Old Dominion is just short of deep blue these days.

Nearly seven weeks after the $600-per-week enhanced federal unemployment benefit enacted under the CARES Act expired, 34 states still have not initiated the $300 payments under the Lost Wages Assistance program.

Climate Action Alliance of the Valley, a non-profit, grassroots group of volunteers in the Central Shenandoah Valley, produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News to inform legislators and the public.

Have you noticed that the government’s answer to every problem is more government—at taxpayer expense—and less individual liberty?

Attorney General Mark R. Herring has joined a coalition of 17 attorneys general in continuing the fight against the Trump administration’s efforts to threaten DREAMers with deportation.

Sen. Mark Warner had an unexpectedly tight battle for re-election in 2014, defeating Republican Ed Gillespie by less than one point despite having strong approval from Virginia voters. It’s not looking like his 2020 re-election will be anywhere near as dramatic.

Billionaire wealth has grown by $792 billion, or 27 percent, since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown on March 18. This from Forbes’ real-time data monitored by Americans for Tax Fairness & the Institute for Policy Studies – Program on Inequality.

U.S. Reps. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-NJ-09), Don Beyer (D-VA-08) and Katie Porter (D-CA-45) have written to FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn again calling on the agency to protect the American people from unproven treatments for COVID-19.
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