House Versus Senate
Conservative upper chamber undermines progressive House of Delegates.
Democrats and Republicans in the General Assembly like to see themselves as adversaries. The real enemy, they like to say, is down the hall.
Inflicting Pain to Gain Relief
Self-Injury Awareness Month is a time to learn about the condition and erase the stigma.
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Fairfax County Neighbors Question ‘Country Inn,’ Agritourism Proposals
Residential preservation and urbanization standoff in the latest Springfield District Town Hall Meeting.
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South Fairfax County Stalker Caught on Doorbell Camera
Technology around the Newington neighborhood is valuable in this case.
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Mapmaking Politics
Legislative Black Caucus leads effort to undermine redistricting amendment.
Virginia has a horrible history with racial gerrymandering. It started with the ratification of the Constitution, an effort led by Virginians who wanted to count slaves as three-fifths of a person so representation in the south wouldn’t suffer because so many of its inhabitants were non-voting enslaved people. It continued all the way to 2011, when the Republican leaders engaged in a scheme of packing black voters into House districts to dilute their influence elsewhere, a plan the United States Supreme Court later determined was unconstitutional. Now members of the Legislative Black Caucus are worried a proposed amendment might enshrine racial gerrymandering into the Virginia Constitution.