Four Northern Virginia school systems are taking a stand in support of Gavin Grimm, a transgender teen who sued the Gloucester County School Board after he was barred from using the boys’ restroom in his school. The school boards in Alexandria, Falls Church,...
This is the first of a multi-part series exploring the minimum wage in Virginia. Earlier this year, Virginia’s Republican-controlled General Assembly failed to raise the state’s minimum wage, which sits at $7.25 per hour. Indeed, while 20 other states raised their...
After a week of chaos that saw the Richmond City Council threaten to take legal action against Mayor Levar Stoney’s administration, the two sides finally came to an agreement, balancing the city’s $757 million budget without cutting education funding or raising...
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke was clear when laying out the stakes of Virginia’s 2019 General Assembly election: “Everything that people want in their lives, for themselves, for the future, is dependent on this 2019 election.” O’Rourke spoke at a...
Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all the Virginia news that’s been happening coming right up. But First... Amazon posted the first job listings for its new Arlington County location on Monday, while fellow big tech...
James Madison University and the College of William & Mary are the latest public universities in Virginia to freeze their tuition rates for in-state undergraduate students. Earlier this year, the Virginia General Assembly passed an education incentive package,...
Almost two years have passed since the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, but President Trump continues to stand by his controversial comments regarding the rally. It was August 2017 when a group of white supremacists converged on Charlottesville for...
From Virginia Beach to Charlottesville to Fairfax County, immigrants helped grow the economies of dozens of Virginia localities and cut population loss by at least 10%, according to a new analysis by Stateline, a project of the Pew Charitable Trust. This comes on...
Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all the Virginia news that’s been happening coming right up. But First… Despite a chaotic, rain-plagued opening day, Pharell’s Something in the Water festival was largely successful...
Virginia’s teachers are the third most underpaid in the nation when compared to other college-educated workers, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal-leaning think tank. In the last four years, the weekly pay of Virginia teachers has...
