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Virginia voters have more choices than ever. That is a good thing. Democracy has broken out in the Commonwealth.

Virginia voters have more choices than ever. That is a good thing. Democracy has broken out in the Commonwealth.

The University of Virginia is joining more than 200 campuses in 37 states and the District of Columbia to be designated as a “Voter Friendly Campus.”

Moses Wright, for some reason or the other, is the ACC Player of the Year. Maybe more vexing is that Jose Alvarado is the league’s Defensive Player of the Year. This is where I stop voting for awards.

Over the course of a few weeks, House Democrats have passed bill after bill aiming to fundamentally reshape the United States.

The House voted 220-210 Wednesday to pass the For the People Act, a sweeping package of election reforms that would crack down on voter suppression, protect elections, get money out of politics, strengthen ethics rules, and fight corruption.

The Virginia Department of Elections has completed the state’s risk-limiting audit, confirming that the original count of the votes accurately portrayed the winners of the election in Virginia for president and the U.S. Senate.

A discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has been selected as one of the year’s most significant biomedical discoveries.

The House of Representatives, by a razor-thin 219-212 margin, voted in the wee hours of Saturday morning to pass President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, setting up the next political battle in the U.S. Senate.

One of the meaningful traditions that has evolved in the Virginia House of Delegates over the last couple of decades has been the celebration of Black History Month.

Virginia senior forward Sam Hauser is one of the five finalists for the 2021 Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year Award.
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