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The Creigh Deeds campaign is reading something. That I think is clear with the slight shift in strategy signaled in the closing statement that Deeds delivered in Sunday’s Democratic Party gubernatorial debate in Williamsburg. “Our party will no longer be the party of the middle class if our nominee for governor is beholden to Donald…
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General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline If the Virginia General Assembly is a 60-day legislative battle, this week was filled with several skirmishes between those of us fighting to reform the state bureaucracy and the bureaucracy fighting back. I generally introduce several government-reform bills each year because I continue to believe that government…
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The NBA Finals are here, and fans of basketball can’t wait to watch the likes of Jalen Brunson and Victor Wembanyama go to war in the best-of-seven series.
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It’s already the settled law of the land, marriage equality, but Virginia still has embedded in its state constitution, thanks to the politics of 2006, a provision narrowly defining marriage as being between one man and one woman.
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If Jones, Scott et al in the Virginia Democratic Party leadership really want the 10-1 map that 1,604,276 voters approved last month, there’s this scenario laid out by Quinn Yeargain, a constitutional law professor at Michigan State.
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Ben Cline set up a well-funded entity he called Stop the Gerrymander to save his job in Congress, which pays him a mere $174,000 a year. Consider the money of the oligarchs that went toward the effort well spent.
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AFP, yet again, was shut out in the annual Pulitzer award season, which isn’t necessarily for the lack of impactful journalism from us. Yeah, I’m having to say so myself.
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We are being asked — no, told — to believe that the greatest threat to America today is not government overreach, endless war, corruption, surveillance, or the steady erosion of constitutional rights.
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Louisiana is using a U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing it to gerrymander Black-majority districts out of existence, putting the Supreme Court of Virginia on notice.
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It has always been something of an unwritten rule that technology gets cheaper over time as modern alternatives replace it.
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