POLITICS
Virginia House forms emergency committee over Musk’s attacks on federal workers
Published February 5, 2025
A bipartisan group of Virginia lawmakers will look into the impacts of the Trump Administration’s drastic and legally questionable shrinking of federal services and its workforce.
Virginia Senate Dems pass bill to protect health care workers from out-of-state attacks
Published February 3, 2025
Virginia Senate Democrats on Monday passed legislation aimed at protecting medical workers and patients from out-of-state prosecutions for legal activities in Virginia.
UVA, VCU end care for trans minors following Trump order, state guidance
Published January 31, 2025
Two of Virginia’s major health systems quietly stopped providing gender-affirming care to minors in response to directives from the Trump administration and Virginia’s Republican Attorney General.
Facing first tragedy of his presidency, Trump blames DEI, Obama for plane crash
Published January 30, 2025
Sixty-seven people are presumed to be dead after a passenger plane collided Wednesday night with a US Army helicopter midair while approaching Reagan National Airport. Rather than provide measured leadership, Trump blamed DEI and Democrats for the deadly accident.
Virginia leaders slam Trump’s immediate, baseless blame of DEI for crash
Published January 30, 2025
Some Virginia leaders criticized Trump’s choice to immediately blame DEI as the cause despite no evidence of the cause of the crash yet, something he admitted wasn’t known just minutes earlier in his remarks.
Way more Americans are getting sterilized since Roe was struck down, research finds
Published January 29, 2025
A new study has found that from May to August 2022, vasectomies surged by 95% and tubal sterilizations increased by 70% among adults ages 19 to 26. Health care professionals across the country have seen this in real time.
People are leaving states with abortion bans, according to study
Published January 27, 2025
A new analysis from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that since 2022, states with near-total abortion bans appear to have lost 36,000 people per quarter, with single people, who tend to skew younger, being more likely to leave. Tens of thousands of people, in particular single people, have left states with abortion bans […]
Coping with Trump 2.0-era repro rights: Finding power in your community
Published January 27, 2025
Recent events may leave you feeling uncertain about basic human rights. If the president wants to take away your reproductive freedoms, who can you turn to?
Virginia agency says Richmond water crisis was ‘completely avoidable’
Published January 24, 2025
Richmond may have broken state law related to public water, according to a notice from the Virginia Department of Health’s Office of Drinking Water.
ICYM: Virginia is becoming a leader in clean energy
Published January 23, 2025
Clean energy is taking over the commonwealth. Here’s what you need to know about Virginia’s newest renewable energy news.
Virginia Dems defeat effort to add anti-union, ‘right to work’ policy to the state constitution
Published January 22, 2025
Republicans wanted to add the policy to Virginia’s state constitution even after voters rejected doing so in 2016.
Virginia Senate advances constitutional amendments on reproductive rights, voting rights, and same-sex marriage
Published January 21, 2025
Three state constitutional amendments officially cleared a major hurdle today on the long road to becoming a reality.