Increased gas taxes will pay for road improvements and passenger rail. The most significant transportation package in decades is progressing in the Virginia General Assembly. Companion bills that would change how the state collects transportation revenues and how much money it puts into modernizations, among other changes, have passed the Virginia House of Delegates and...
Protesters worried new laws in Virginia will lead to gun safety legislation throughout the country. Elle Meyers also contributed reporting. Thousands of protestors gathered in Richmond Monday to oppose new gun safety legislation proposed by Democrats, including improved background checks and restricting access to firearms for people found by a court to be a danger...
The descendant of an early settler that gets credit as the founder of the holiday, says Virginia, not Massachusetts, is the origin of the first English Thanksgiving. Pilgrims in Plymouth wearing black and white suits and funny hats. Shirtless American Indians dawning feather headdresses. Maybe a colonial soldier with plated armor. And of course —...
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ gun safety group will “clean up the literal mess” outside the NRA’s headquarters in Northern Virginia. Giffords, the gun safety organization co-founded by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, has announced plans to adopt a highway outside the NRA’s Northern Virginia headquarters. In its deal to adopt Virginia Highway 665 in Fairfax, known...
After taking the majority in the Virginia state legislature for the first time in over twenty years, Democrats make history with their leadership. “Two words have never been spoken in the 400-year history of the Virginia House of Burgesses and the House of Delegates: ‘Madam Speaker,’” Sen. Adam Ebbin (D-Alexandria), tweeted Saturday after Virginia House Democrats picked...
