This is Part 1 of a two-part series on how Virginia’s new redistricting system is impacting this year’s high-stakes General Assembly elections and the future of...
This story is an updated and expanded version of our General Assembly Tracker. In Virginia’s never-sleepy political calendar, April 6 was a red-letter day: the last...
Legislation to increase penalties for alerting police, fire, or emergency medical services personnel to false emergencies passed the General Assembly with bipartisan support and will take...
Gov. Glenn Youngkin is recommending changes to a pending state law that would require a parent to approve whether or not their child can set up...
A bill to help remove licensing requirements for eyebrow threading technicians failed to pass a House committee during the recent General Assembly session. Eyebrow threading is...
When Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin unveiled his energy plan this fall that pushed for the development of small modular nuclear reactors in the state within a...
As this legislative session comes to a close, I wish to extend my gratitude to each of you for sending my team to Richmond on your...
I was something of a young pup in the Virginia Capitol press corps, at least in terms of tenure on the beat, if not age, in...
This weekend, the General Assembly concluded its legislative business after a whirlwind 46-day session filled with spirited debate, productive negotiations, and diligent consideration of thousands of...
It’s been a long time since the biggest business in Virginia was tobacco. Or since people hunted rabbits where rail mass transit and office towers now...
On February 25, 2023, Attorney General Jason Miyares issued the following statement upon the adjournment of the General Assembly Sine Die. Twenty bills from the Attorney...
As the 2023 legislative session draws to a close, a mounting number of delegates and senators are announcing this one will be their last. Nine lawmakers...
The responsibility of meeting school construction costs has shifted out of reach for some localities in Virginia. Many schools, lawmakers say, have fallen into disrepair, while...
Hundreds of bills are filed for General Assembly consideration each year. In this occasional series, the Mercury looks at a few proposals that might not...
With drug overdoses now the leading cause of unnatural death in Virginia, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, lawmakers, and experts agree solutions are needed to address the devastation...
In this session, efforts to strengthen Virginia’s career and technical education mostly failed in the General Assembly, despite Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s goal of having every high...
With adjournment less than a week away, the 2023 General Assembly is a mixed bag for electricity consumers, with the Assembly seeming to release control to...
Lawmakers voted down two bills that aimed to provide child support payments for any child whose parent or guardian was killed by a drunk driver. Del....
Hundreds of bills are filed for General Assembly consideration each year. In this occasional series, the Mercury looks at a few of the proposals that might...
A proposal to create a state Prescription Drug Affordability Board that would have the power to review and, in some cases, set upper price limits on...
Virginia lawmakers aren’t agreeing on much these days, but 93 of 100 members of the House of Delegates could at least find common ground on which...
All four bills put forward by Republicans this year to let parents use state education funding to cover the costs of educational opportunities outside the public...
Elected officials serving in the Virginia General Assembly have a short amount of time to potentially discuss thousands of proposed measures that are either defeated or...
A proposal to make more information public when Virginia judges violate ethics rules passed the House of Delegates Friday on a bipartisan vote. Currently, almost all...
With the conclusion of the second week of the 2023 General Assembly Session, one thing is becoming increasingly clear – Republicans need to retake control of...
After a review found a Virginia college savings program has racked up more than a billion dollars in surplus funds, a lawmaker is proposing to put...
Legislative attempts to put a two-year moratorium on the menhaden reduction fishery in the Chesapeake Bay and expand the time period during which state officials can...
Every year I do a round-up of climate and energy bills at the start of the General Assembly session. This year, as expected, Republicans continue their...
Virginia Republicans’ push for parental rights, a term used to cover a range of policies from so-called school choice to oversight of public school library...
What do you have the right to know about what your state government is doing? In Virginia, not a lot. Virginia, like the federal government...
