In 2020, parents in Loudoun County began speaking out against a variety of issues involving their public schools, including school closures, Critical Race Theory (CRT), transgender bathroom and locker room policies, and the politicization of the Loudoun County School Board as it related to those issues.
In 2020, parents in Loudoun County began speaking out against a variety of issues involving their public schools, including school closures, Critical Race Theory (CRT), transgender bathroom and locker room policies, and the politicization of the Loudoun County School Board as it related to those issues.
The typical high school gridiron rivalry was replaced by a dramatic showdown on a cold Thursday night at Luther Jackson Middle School. This time, however, parents, students, and coaches from competing schools came together to demand accountability, transparency, and an apology from Fairfax County Public Schools superintendent Michelle Reid
Democratic School Board member Anne Donohue (At-Large) has allegedly broken a state law when she served as an election official on Nov. 5 at Independence High School in Ashburn.
After the book was removed quietly from the school library, a Virginia mother who spoke out publicly against the inclusion in Fairfax County Public Schools of a "adult-themed", LGBTQ graphic novel has declared "victory".
School board members across the nation have the important responsibilities of ensuring that public school students receive a quality education, managing the district’s senior staff, and approving the budget. Too often, these elected officials neglect their duties in favor of a heavily politicized agenda. Fairfax County, Virginia, is no exception.
RICHMOND, Va. – To settle a lawsuit brought by Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a former Virginia high school teacher who was fired for avoiding...
April Chandler and Anne Donohue Conflict of Interest, Being Paid over $28,000 to Pass Resolutions in Donor Favors.
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Melinda Marie Mansfield is a member of the Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia, representing Dulles District. She assumed office on January 1, 2024....
Democrats in Virginia's General Assembly are aware that their extreme bills have no chance of escaping the Republican Governor. Glenn Youngkin has the veto pen. But Democrats insist on introducing as many extreme left-wing bills as possible in the 2025 session.
The Chief Equity Office is headed by a Chief Equity Officer (salary: $258,641). She directly supervises an Executive Director for Equity & Student Relations ($191,634), a Chief Administrative Hearings Officer ($189,569), and a Thomas Jefferson High School Admissions Director ($122,717).
Today, Governor Glenn Youngkin, who is not known for political pugilism retaliated against Senate Democrats for rejecting six of his nominees to the board of George Mason University and the Virginia Military Institute, as well as the state School Board.
Two days before Christmas, in the waning days of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 out of 40 federal prisoners to a life sentence. Only by hearing what they had done can we begin to grapple with their offense. Many of them were responsible for gruesome murders of multiple persons:
Jorge Avila-Torrez “sexually assaulted and stabbed to death two girls — Laura Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9 — who had been riding their bicycles in their neighborhood in a suburb north of Chicago in 2005. Four years later, he strangled naval officer Amanda Snell, 20, inside her barrack in Arlington, Virginia.” He subsequently admitted to these crimes. A year after that, he kidnapped, raped, and strangled a woman in a secluded area of northern Virginia, leaving her for dead by the side of a road. She survived and reported the crime to police, finally leading to his arrest and conviction.
Anthony Battle “murdered an Atlanta prison guard with a hammer in 1994 while serving a life sentence for murdering his wife, a US Marine, in 1987.” Battle confessed that he killed the guard because he was “tired of being bossed around” and wanted to kill the first guard he saw. He showed no remorse. At Battle’s trial, three prison guards from the facility testified that Battle’s actions emboldened other prisoners to threaten staff because “without the death penalty, all prisoners … believe there is nothing that can happen to them.”
Marvin Gabrion murdered 19-year-old Rachel Timmerman before she could testify in a 1997 rape case against him. He handcuffed her, covered her eyes and mouth with duct tape, wrapped her in chains, weighted her down with concrete blocks, and threw her into a lake alive. He also murdered Rachel’s 11-month-old daughter, whose body has never been found (Gabrion denies that he murdered her). The authorities were willing to take the death penalty off the table if Gabrion would only reveal where the 11-month-old’s body was. “Prosecutors say Gabrion is also responsible for the deaths of three men who have been missing since about the time of Timmerman’s murder: Robert Allen, a mentally disabled man from Kent County; Wayne Davis, who allegedly witnessed the sexual assault on Timmerman; and John Weeks, who allegedly lured Timmerman and her daughter to Gabrion before Timmerman’s murder.”
Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks in 2002 carjacked, kidnapped, and killed two women, 44-year-old Alice Donovan of South Carolina and 19-year-old Samantha Burns of West Virginia, in the midst of a 17-day crime spree after they escaped a county jail in western Kentucky.
Iouri Mikhel and Jurijus Kadamovas, Soviet-born immigrants, kidnapped five Russian and Georgian immigrants (four men, one woman, all but one between the ages of 29 and 39, the other 58) over a four-month period starting in 2001. They lured their victims with offers of business deals. They received more than $1 million in ransom but killed their victims by strangulation anyway and dumped their bodies in a reservoir near Yosemite National Park. Since being imprisoned, Mikhel and Kadamovas have hatched several escape plans.
Thomas Sanders in 2010 killed a woman and her 12-year-old daughter. Sanders (53) was dating Suellen Roberts, 31. He invited her and her daughter Lexis to go on a three-day trip to a wildlife park near the Grand Canyon. “As they were returning to Nevada, Sanders pulled off Interstate 40 … and shot Suellen Roberts in the head” and kidnapped Lexis Roberts. “Sanders drove several days across the country before he murdered Lexis Roberts in a wooded area in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. … Sanders shot Lexis four times, cut her throat, and left her body in the woods. … At trial, the jury heard a recorded confession in which Sanders admitted killing the mother and daughter.”
Alejandro Umaña in 2007 fatally shot two brothers, Ruben Garcia Salinas and Manuel Garcia Salinas, in a North Carolina restaurant. “Umana, a member of a gang, was having dinner at a Greensboro restaurant when he and two other patrons who did not belong to the gang ‘exchanged words.’ Prosecutors said Umana then pulled a semi-automatic pistol and shot the two men in the restaurant.”
Daniel Troya and Ricardo Sanchez in 2006 stopped a car on the Florida Turnpike and shot to death an entire family: Jose Luis Escobedo and his wife Yessica along with their sons, Luis Julian, 4, and Luis Damian, 3, both of whom died in their mother’s arms. Their bodies were found in the grass alongside Florida’s Turnpike. The murders were motivated by a drug-debt involving Jose.
Edward Fields, a former Oklahoma state prison guard, in 2003 killed a married couple, Charles and Shirley Chick, at a campground in Ouachita National Forest simply for the sport of it. “He scouted the couple at the campground in a homemade sniper suit and shot them with a rifle.”
Kaboni Savage, a Philadelphia drug dealer, was convicted of killing or ordering the deaths of 12 people, including four children.
Two gang members in Richmond, Virginia, were involved in a series of 11 drug-related murders that happened in a span of 45 days in 1992. James Roane was convicted in three of those murders; Richard Tipton of six murders.
Julius Robinson, a wholesale drug dealer operating in five states, in 1998-99 murdered two men, Johnny Lee Shelton and Juan Reyes, and was also implicated in the death of a third person, Rudolfo Resendez. Robinson killed Shelton in a case of mistaken identity. Juan Reyes, “not the intended target,” “was shot to death at close range on the driveway in front of his home.”
Aquilia Marcivicci Barnette in 1998 murdered two people, his ex-girlfriend and another man, in a carjacking.
Brandon Council in 2017 murdered two bank employees, a teller and a bank manager, during the course of a bank robbery in South Carolina.
Prisoners Murder Other Prisoners
Nine persons whose death sentences were commuted to life by Biden were prisoners who had murdered other prisoners (add these to the one cited above who murdered a prison guard). In addition to satisfying moral justice, the threat of execution for prisoners who murder in prison provides some deterrence against committing murder in prison. Otherwise, prisoners who are already incarcerated for life have nothing further to fear. Some of those who murdered in prison were in prison for prior murders:
Shannon Agofsky already had a life sentence for a murder he committed in 1989. He had kidnapped a bank president, Dan Short, forced him to open his Missouri bank, stole $71,000, drove him to Oklahoma, tied him “to a cement-weighted chair, and threw him in a lake” alive. While in prison in 2001, he beat to death 37-year-old Luther Plant, an inmate at a federal penitentiary in Texas.
Joseph Ebron, who was in prison for two prior murders, in 2005 helped “in the stabbing death of fellow inmate Keith Davis at a federal prison in Beaumont, Texas. Ebron held Davis while another inmate stabbed him 106 times. That inmate later killed himself in prison.”
Other prisoners committed their first murder in prison:
Mark Snarr and Edgar Garcia “were being transported to their cells in a federal Texas prison when the duo slipped from their hand restraints, pulled out homemade knives, and stabbed two correction officers. They took the cell keys from a guard’s belt and unlocked the cell of fellow inmate Gabriel Rhone.” They stabbed Rhone over 50 times, killing him.
Charles Hall and Wesley Coonce in 2010 murdered fellow inmate Victor Castro-Rodriguez. “The duo targeted Castro-Rodriguez because he previously intervened to help a Bureau of Prisons Employee being attacked by another inmate. Coonce was already serving a life sentence for a kidnapping and carjacking that involved the rape of a woman. Hall was serving his sentence for making threats against a federal judge and federal prosecutor.”
Christopher Cramer and Ricky Fackrell stabbed to death fellow inmate Leo Johns. All three were members of a pagan white supremacy group called “Soldiers of the Aryan Culture.” Cramer and Fackrell claimed that their aim was to punish Johns for violating their group’s rules against drinking and gambling, but matters got out of hand. Both men had prior convictions for robbery and violence and in prison had assaulted other inmates (Fackrell was charged with murdering another inmate a few months later).
Carlos Caro, in prison on a 30-year sentence for drug dealing, in 2003 strangled his cellmate, Robert Sandoval, to death with a wet bath towel. Caro, a member of the Texas Syndicate prison gang, said that his reason for murdering Sandoval was that Sandoval ate Caro’s breakfast. Caro had previously stabbed a rival gang member 29 times.
Heinous Single Murders Outside Prison
Others who had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment were involved in heinous single murders:
Richard Jackson in 1994 kidnapped, raped, and murdered 22-year-old Karen Styles when she was going for a jog in Asheville, North Carolina. A hunter found her partially naked body duct-taped to a tree, with a gunshot wound to the head. Jackson later confessed to the crime.
Daryl Lawrence in 2005 “shot and killed Columbus [Ohio] police officer Bryan Hurst during an attempted bank robbery.” This was his fourth bank robbery in little over a year. Hurst, 33, “was working special duty at the Fifth Third Bank … when Lawrence entered with a handgun and killed the officer during an exchange of gunfire.” Lawrence confessed to his crimes.
Thomas Hager in 1993 was one of three men who entered the apartment of 19-year-old single mom, Barbara White, and “stabbed her 82 times. Hager’s accomplices said they worked for Hager, a crack cocaine dealer at the time, and received life sentences after testifying against him.”
Meier Brown, in the course of attempting to steal three money orders totaling $1175 at a post office in Fleming, Georgia, in 2002, fatally stabbed postmistress Sallie Gaglia ten times so that she couldn’t identify him, then stole her wallet. Brown confessed to his crime.
Billie Jerome Allen and Norris Holder were sentenced in 1998 for armed robbery of a St. Louis bank that resulted in the death of security guard Richard Heflin. What convinced the jury to vote for a death sentence was that “after [Heflin] had already been shot and wounded, Allen stood over Mr. Heflin with an assault rifle and shot him again, execution-style.” There appears to be no doubt about Holder’s involvement in the crime. However, some have argued that Allen’s conviction is a case of mistaken identity (see Amnesty International, Prisons and Justice Initiative, www.freebillieallen.com, a Jan. 14 op-ed in The Nation, and a Jan. 16 op-ed by Allen himself in Newsweek). But the evidence for Allen’s involvement appears strong.
David Runyon, an army veteran, in 2007 shot five times and killed Cory Voss, a naval ensign, in a murder-for-hire plot staged by Voss’ wife Catherina and her boyfriend (both of whom got life sentences).
Murdering Witnesses
Several were on death row for involvement in murdering a witness against them.
Ronaldo Mikos, a Chicago foot doctor who had defrauded Medicare of $1.8 million for foot surgeries that he never performed, shot six times and killed the one patient he could not dissuade from testifying against him, Joyce Brannon, a 53-year-old former nurse who was living in the basement of the church where she served as a secretary. Mikos confessed to the fraud but denied the killing. The circumstantial evidence of his guilt was compelling.
Len Davis, a corrupt New Orleans police officer, in 1994 arranged with a drug dealer, Paul Hardy, to have Kim Groves killed for filing a complaint of police brutality against him. Davis had beaten a young man whom he mistook for a suspect in the shooting of a police officer, and Groves had witnessed the beating (both Davis and Groves were black). Unbeknownst to Davis, the FBI was wiretapping Davis’s phone as part of a sting operation against Davis and other cops for extorting money from cocaine dealers in exchange for protection. The phone surveillance disclosed Davis’s instructions to Hardy. Less than a day after filing her complaint against Davis, Groves was killed by a single bullet to the head fired by Hardy.
Rejon Taylor with the help of two accomplices in 2003 robbed, carjacked, kidnapped, and murdered Atlanta restaurant owner Guy Luck. From 2001 to 2003 they engineered a scheme of robbing the mailboxes of rich Atlanta homeowners, including Luck. They decided to return to Luck’s home to ransack it for valuables. While doing so, Taylor uncovered a document indicating that Luck was planning on being a witness against Taylor. So they forced Luck into his own van, with Taylor driving from Atlanta to rural Tennessee. A confrontation developed in the car and Taylor fired three times at Luck, including once in the mouth, killing him.
The Three Whose Death Sentences Biden Did Not Commute and Why
Biden can’t claim complete opposition to the death penalty, for there were three persons whose death sentences he did not commute. The White House press release stated that Biden “believes that America must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level, except in cases of terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.” Hence, he did not commute the death sentences of:
Robert Bowers, the anti-Semitic murderer of 11 Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018.
Dylann Roof, the white-supremacist murderer of nine persons at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Islamic terrorist who planted bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring 264 others, then killed one police officer and critically injured another.
The debate then is not over whether the death penalty is justified over heinous murders but over what constitutes “heinous.”
Conclusion
Biden’s action in commuting nearly all federal death sentences to life sentences for heinous murderers should generate a sense of moral outrage. This moral outrage emanates not from a bloodthirsty desire for vengeance but from a sense of justice regarding the value and dignity of innocent life. Taking the innocent life of one made in God’s image, especially in particularly heinous murders such as the above, requires the forfeiture of the murderer’s life (see Genesis 9:6).
Attempts to argue against the imposition of the death penalty for particularly heinous murders fail. Yes, sometimes the innocent may be sentenced to death, but that concern appears not to apply to any of the above cases. Yes, sometimes racial bias may still rear its ugly head; but a justly applied capital sentence remains just even if another person in similar circumstances gets only a life sentence. Some question whether the threat of a death penalty has any deterrent effect. Yet such a threat does appear to deter some from prison violence among those who have nothing else to lose. It can also be used to coax offenders to divulge where a body has been hidden. Ultimately, though, deterrence and recovery of the deceased are secondary benefits. The chief benefit to society is the conveyance of justice and the value of innocent human life.
Robert A. J. Gagnon is a visiting scholar at Wesley Biblical Seminary and the author of "The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics."
The executive order signed by President Donald Trump to stop future offshore wind farms on federal ocean leases does not appear to target the Virginia project currently underway.
According to the Fauquier Times, Council is embroiled in litigation from a citizen lawsuit to block the Amazon project as well as a FOIA request for thousands of emails and documents. According to the Fauquier Times, the council is embroiled in litigation due to a citizen suit to block the Amazon Project as well as FOIA requests to release thousands emails and documents.
Governor Glenn Youngkin today released the following statement after President Joe Biden announced the clemency of violent criminals Ferrone Claiborne and Terence Richardson, two men who admitted to being responsible for the brutal killing of Officer Allen Gibson, a Sussex County police officer.
Virginia Democrats, inspired by the wave of misleading abortion-until birth ballot measures in other red states sparked the House of Delegates session 2025 in Virginia by voting for an amendment to enshrine the right to abortion up until birth in state constitution.
I’m proud that the Commonwealth is taking the steps to provide Virginians with developmental disabilities and their families the support and services they need to thrive in their communities
This month, Virginia State Sen. Stella Pekarsky, D-Fairfax, introduced a bill to the Virginia Senate to restrict families’ access to homeschool options.
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed Representative Greg Steube’s (R-Fla.) bill, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, by a bipartisan vote of 218-206-1.
On Jan. 8, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed into law the “Parents’ Bill of Rights.” This law requires public school districts to craft policies that encourage parental involvement in their children’s education, particularly areas related to sexuality and religion.
The U.S. District Court has ruled that the Biden Administration's proposed revisions to Title IX of Education Amendments of 1971 are invalid on a national basis.
Today, the Virginia House of Delegates voted 51 to 48 to advance HJ1, the unlimited abortion amendment. This devastating decision sets Virginia on a path toward the most extreme abortion policy in the United States—and perhaps the world.
Governor Glenn Youngkin today visited the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) to recognize the agency’s remarkable transformation and significant accomplishments in improving services for Virginians.
Virginia Democrats want to transform Virginia into California. Democrats have filed radical California-style bills in the 2025 session of the legislature, which began on January 8, . Democrats want to ban gas-powered vehicles, prohibit gun carrying in public spaces, fund universal preschools with taxpayer money, ban plastic bags and have abortion without restrictions enshrined into the Constitution.
On January 4th 2024, the House of Representatives had a vote to deport any illegal immigrant who committed a crime against women. A majority of democrats decided that illegal immigrant lives are more important than women. Including 4 representatives from Virginia!
A U.S. district court struck down President Joe Biden’s queer theory rewrite of Title IX nationwide on Thursday, blocking his administration from attempting to change the definition of “sex” to include claimed “gender identities.”
Virginia Democrats are wasting no time proposing a huge tax increase on Virginians by slapping a 5 percent tax on virtually every service in the commonwealth
Financial records show that public school teachers and other professionals in education who are more concerned with their profession than politics get a poor return from their union dues.
Since February 1, the Reston developer has spent $271,128 more on lobbying and political contributions. Comstock has spent a total of $1.519.121 so far, according to the financial reports filed with the state.
“I think absolutely I would be a boost to that ticket,” said Herrity. “I’m a known quantity in Northern Virginia and in Fairfax County, specifically. I think I [would] help the ticket across the finish line.
Fairfax County, located just west of Washington, D.C., unveiled the latest concept of its "COVID Memorial" which honors those who have died from respiratory flu, as well as the medical professionals who treated them.
Though her existing contract was set to run through June 2026, the Fairfax County School Board voted yesterday (Thursday) to give Reid a new four-year contract that could bring her annual salary close to a half-million dollars by its conclusion.
A joint session of Congress officially certified President-elect Donald Trump’s election win on Jan. 6, and for the first time since 1988, no Democrat challenged the legitimacy of a Republican being elected president.
Teachers in New Jersey who disagree with the politics of their union are likely to revolt during the months before the 2025 state gubernatorial election.
America is a nation of immigrants predicated upon the rule of law. As a first-generation American and attorney general for the Commonwealth of Virginia, I am grateful and mindful of both on a daily basis.
This proposal will return an estimated $70 million annually to the pockets of hardworking Virginians to further deliver on Governor Youngkin’s commitment to lower the cost of living for working families across the Commonwealth.
In 2020, parents in Loudoun County began speaking out against a variety of issues involving their public schools, including school closures, Critical Race Theory (CRT), transgender bathroom and locker room policies, and the politicization of the Loudoun County School Board as it related to those issues.
These new revelations are part of an ongoing inquiry that was launched by Virginia Attorney-General Jason Miyares in October, along with a alliance consisting of attorneys generals over ActBlue's purported money-laundering scheme.
One top official claims that even if a funding plan is implemented, it will not solve the county's financial problems. There is a gap of $292.7 millions between the expected revenues and expenditures, which must be closed in the next year.
He said, "I am worried about the future of our region under a Trump administration. I believe it is important that we stick together in times like these."
Governor Glenn Youngkin has announced an additional $290 million budget investment to further support school construction and modernization across the Commonwealth, bringing the total amount invested in the current biennium to $700 million
You can forget about any humility you might have expected after the Virginia education media falsely claimed for months that 70+ Virginia schools would fall into the bottom two summative categories of the new accountability systems
The typical high school gridiron rivalry was replaced by a dramatic showdown on a cold Thursday night at Luther Jackson Middle School. This time, however, parents, students, and coaches from competing schools came together to demand accountability, transparency, and an apology from Fairfax County Public Schools superintendent Michelle Reid
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., introduced legislation on Wednesday that would federally ban mutilating transgender procedures for children and punish so-called “physicians” who perform such procedures.
Increase in Recreation Center Fees for Families: 32%
Camping, pavilions and picnic areas: an increase of 30%+
Golf Fees: Increase of up to 20%
Increase in Golf and Room Rentals: 25% (effective 2025).
With a difficult FY 2026 budget forecast on the horizon, the Board voted 9 to 1 to purchase a former hotel property as a potential shelter for 20 percent ($2.5M) over its appraised value and 300 percent ($9.5M) over its assessed value.
This funding program is designed to leverage local marketing dollars with matching state funds to increase visitation and traveler spending in the off-season.
Executive Order 43 (also known as Empowering and supporting parents to protect their children from addictive social media and Establishing the Reclaiming Childhood Task Force) aims to address the mental health crisis among Virginia youth by providing resources for parents, educators, and healthcare providers.
Fairfax County’s budget forecast for FY2026 shows a shortfall of $292.7 millions due to falling office property values and rising employee compensation.
Democratic School Board member Anne Donohue (At-Large) has allegedly broken a state law when she served as an election official on Nov. 5 at Independence High School in Ashburn.
Tumay Harding dominated a crowded field of six candidates to win the Republican primary for the Virginia Senate District 32 seat. Tumay, with endorsements from Sheriff Mike Chapman, former Virginia congressman Dick Black, and former state delegate Bob Marshall, won 64% of the votes.
On Monday, November 18, Ram Venkatachalam won a close election for the Republican nomination for House of Delegates District 26. The election took place at a Republican Mass Meeting of the 26th District called by Chairman of the Loudoun County Republican Committee, Scott Pio.
The memo said that the arrival of Tren de Aragua in the nation's capitol and in nearby Virginia coincided "with an increase in migrant population" in those areas.
The Center for Immigration Studies, an immigration policy think tank, released on Thursday its updated map of American refuge locations. It revealed a surge of localities in Virginia adopting sanctuary status.
Planned Parenthood has been providing “viable nonanomalous” babies killed in “elective abortions” to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) for experimentation, according to a new report.
After the book was removed quietly from the school library, a Virginia mother who spoke out publicly against the inclusion in Fairfax County Public Schools of a "adult-themed", LGBTQ graphic novel has declared "victory".
Governor Glenn Youngkin today issued Executive Order 43, Empowering and Supporting Parents to Protect Their Children from Addictive Social Media & Establishment of the Reclaiming Childhood Task Force, to tackle a critical aspect of Virginia’s youth mental health crisis, the unrestricted use of cell phones and addictive social media platforms.
Governor Glenn Youngkin announced the ten honorees in the 2024 Governor’s Volunteerism & Community Service Awards during a ceremony at the Executive Mansion. The annual awards program spotlights the outstanding volunteer efforts of individuals, organizations, and businesses, on behalf of Virginians across the Commonwealth.
Kannan Srinivasan, a Democratic candidate for Senate District 32, has drawn sharp criticism for his pattern of relocating to position himself for political office. Within the last year, Srinivasan has made two residential moves to align himself with districts where he believes he has the best chance of winning—a strategy opponents argue raises questions about his commitment to representing the interests of local constituents.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has officially declared his intention to run for re-election in 2025, reaffirming his commitment to serving the Commonwealth[1][4]. In a statement released on Monday, November 18, Miyares emphasized his dedication to public safety and his track record of keeping Virginians safe[1].
Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced that according to BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics (“LAUS”, or “the household survey”), the labor force increased by 3,649 to 4,575,255 and Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in October remained unchanged at 2.9 percent, which is 0.1 percentage points below the rate from a year ago. Job growth for the month was mixed, with BLS reporting a slight increase of 1,404 more employed residents, and nonfarm payroll a slight decrease of 3,000.
Democrat lawmakers employ fear tactics claiming school choice will bankrupt their states. It’s a massive lie, and they know it. As a recent Wall Street Journal report notes, school choice programs provide enormous savings for a state’s budget — savings to the tune of millions of dollars each year.
Under current Virginia law, third-trimester abortions require approval from three doctors. The new amendment would reduce this requirement to just one doctor when a late-term abortion is deemed necessary to protect the life of the pregnant individual, or their physical or mental health, or when a physician determines the fetus is not viable.
Sen. Tim Kaine’s wife, Anne Holton, admits the purpose of her “We The People” tax-exempt non-partisan organization is to help get like-minded candidates elected. Is that unlawful?
The Tysons casino referendum bill that was held over to the 2025 session of the Virginia General Assembly will die on Monday, but that doesn’t mean the bill in some form or other won’t reappear in January.
Last month, Ann Bonitatibus announced that she was resigning from her position as principal of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ), a magnet school located in Fairfax County, Virginia, the state’s largest school district.
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Tim Kaine, a failed vice-presidential candidate and Virginia Democrat Senator, was also given time by SNL. SNL had to give Hung Cao equal time as well, because of the Equal Time clause. Cao, in a Statement posted on X, said he does not agree with the calls to sue NBC over alleged Equal Time violations.
In a statement released today, Indian American community leaders emphasized their shared values with Clancy. “Our values include respect for families, religious freedoms, and the rights of parents to guide their children’s education. Mike Clancy stands with us, supporting parental rights and freedom of faith, and he stands firmly against hate groups and divisive agendas,” the statement read.
The Biden-Harris administration and Democrat litigators appear to be jointly executing a lawfare assault against the integrity of our elections. In the face of this onslaught, will Americans’ voting rights be sustained?
The Biden-Harris administration is conducting an election interference campaign in Virginia by filing a lawsuit to ensure noncitizens remain on the voter rolls, but the commonwealth’s own Department of Elections (ELECT) has been complicit in registering ineligible voters for over a decade, according to one county Republican Party.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares took Virginia's noncitizen voter case to the Supreme Court on Monday after a lower-court blocked officials from purging noncitizens aliens from their voter lists.
"Let’s be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election, a federal judge ordered Virginia to reinstate over 1,500 individuals–who self-identified themselves as noncitizens–back onto the voter rolls. Almost all these individuals had previously presented immigration documents confirming their noncitizen status, a fact recently verified by federal authorities.
Last weekend, Michelle Obama, the former first lady, stood on a stage with Vice President Kamala Harris in Kalamazoo Michigan and scolded the public about safety issues for women and children.
“Virginia has played a pivotal role in the history of our nation and it is incumbent upon us to ensure that we preserve that history,” said Governor Glenn Youngkin
