
Youngkin nominates Heritage Foundation president for Cabinet post
Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin announced Friday the nomination of Kay Coles James to serve as the next Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin announced Friday the nomination of Kay Coles James to serve as the next Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced additional appointments on Friday.

The Piedmont area of Virginia has seen the temperature rise at a rate of 0.53 degrees F per decade. Even if that doesn’t speed up, Virginia will be as hot as South Carolina by 2050 and as northern Florida by 2100.

Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin has chosen Craig Crenshaw as the next Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs of Virginia and Dan Gade as the commissioner of the Department of Veterans Services.

The State Corporation Commission has applied for a federal waiver to establish the Commonwealth Health Reinsurance Program.

The richest 10 percent of humanity was responsible for 52 percent of global emissions between 1990 and 2015, according to a 2020 Oxfam report.

The Commonwealth is launching a new statewide Mortgage Relief Program to help people stay in their homes and help ease mortgage delinquencies, defaults and foreclosures due to the pandemic.

Between the riots, lockdowns, political theater, and COVID-19 mandates, 2021 was one for the history books.

Here’s Climate Action Alliance of the Valley’s second December 2021 roundup.

Members of the National Guard are unable to access Veterans Affairs health benefits and ineligible for Department of Defense disability pensions if they can no longer serve due to injuries sustained while on state active duty.
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