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Social media is loosely defined as a group of new kinds of online media. Social media allows participation, openness, conversation, community and connectedness. This is through its structure which is based on networks.
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Only one state program area — public safety— is thought of as efficient or very efficient by a majority of Virginians, according to a new poll by the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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I remember, as a child, accompanying my parents to vote. In the auditorium of a Nashville elementary school, I waited with them in line, then accompanied them to a big steel machine with an oversized, red-handled lever.
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House Democratic Leader David J. Toscano, Senate Democratic Leader Dick Saslaw, House Democratic Caucus Chair Charniele Herring and Senate Democratic Caucus Chair Mamie Locke today issued the following statement calling for equal representation between Republicans and Democrats on the joint subcommittee to study the 2017 election, announced today by House and Senate Republicans.
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner, a member of the Senate Finance and Budget Committees, and Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services and Budget Committees, comment after voting for a bill that will end the shutdown and fund the government through February 8.
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Two things preoccupy me these days: the need for the truth to defeat the lie, rather than vice versa; and the need to bring the good, decent conservatives of America back from the dark place to which the powers on the right have led them.
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The General Assembly is convening for its annual session today. Hopes that the historic election results of November brought forth have dimmed somewhat as the drawing of lots to settle the results of the final district race gave the Republicans a one-member advantage to control the House of Delegates.
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The Virginia House Democratic Caucus today achieved two significant victories for the people of Virginia by negotiating an agreement with Republicans that resulted in recorded subcommittee votes and proportional representation on committees.
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Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Gov.-elect Ralph Northam today proposed their joint legislative agenda for the 2018 General Assembly session. The legislative package includes proposals to expand Medicaid and implement universal background checks in order to purchase a gun.
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A 1919 Paris Peace Parade Conference Flag in the collection of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum (WWPL) has been selected for the Virginia Association of Museum’s (VAM) program, Virginia’s Top 10 Endangered Artifacts, for 2017-2018.
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