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Nivar, Schear compete for Democratic nomination in 57th Virginia House District
Democrats Andrew Schear and May Nivar are campaigning to win their party’s nomination in Virginia’s 57th House of Delegates District in a race that will be decided June 17. Schear plans to tackle childcare and housing affordability if ultimately elected, while Nivar is focusing her campaign on public safety and improving public school education and infrastructure. The seat currently is held by first-term Republican David Owen, who is seeking re-election.
Virginia attorney general, top Democrat spar over fate of Youngkin university picks
A dispute over Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s picks for eight university board seats escalated Wednesday as the Virginia attorney general and the Senate majority leader sent dueling letters over whether the appointees can still serve. Senate Majority Leader Scott A. Surovell (D-Fairfax) told university rectors on Monday that the members could no longer be on the boards, effective immediately, after a Senate committee rejected the eight appointments. But in a letter Wednesday to the rectors, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) claimed that Senate Democrats had misled them.
Pa. reaches reciprocity agreement with Virginia for concealed carry permit holders
Virginians who hold a permit to carry a concealed handgun will be able to keep it on their persons or in their cars when visiting Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced a reciprocity agreement with Virginia that allows people with Licenses to Carry Firearms to do so in both states.
ICE agents detain people outside Va. immigration court, strong-arm activists filming
Agents with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained as many as 11 men outside an immigration court in Sterling, Virginia, Wednesday. News4 witnessed eight of the men being taken out of the court in handcuffs and shackles, then loaded into a van. Activists with New Virginia Majority say three others were already detained before News4 arrived. ICE agents on the scene did not say why the men were being detained or where they were taking the men.
Reports of imminent ICE raids in Northern Virginia amid military parade, nationwide protests
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to deploy "special response teams" to five Democratic-led cities and regions across the country, including Northern Virginia, MSNBC reported Wednesday. Sources told the cable news channel that teams have also been ordered to Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York.
Virginia campaign finance laws take first step beyond honor system
In a bitter 2009 Democratic primary, Roanoke Del. Onzlee Ware’s opponent accused him of dipping into his campaign funds for personal use. The complaint reached the state elections agency in Richmond, which fired off a letter demanding Ware provide receipts for the expenses in question. That’s when all hell broke loose. Candidates from both parties quietly reminded the state Department of Elections that it lacked investigative powers. The agency could only check to see if campaign finance disclosures were filled out completely and the math added up. The Ware incident was a sobering reminder that Virginia’s campaign finance laws operated entirely on the honor system.
Miyares files lawsuit against 23andMe’s plan to sell personal data following bankruptcy
Attorney General Jason Miyares is taking legal action against 23andMe’s plan to sell people’s data, with the aim of protecting Virginians, just a couple of months after the company filed for bankruptcy. Miyares has filed a lawsuit and separate objection to 23andMe’s plan to sell 15 million customers’ data without their consent or knowledge, according to a release from June 10. This news comes two months after 23andMe, a genetic testing company that collects and analyzes customers’ genetic information, announced that it filed for bankruptcy on March 23.
Virginia Vulnerable to Trump’s Proposed Cuts in Emergency Management and Disaster Relief
Virginia was one of several states in the Appalachian region slammed by Hurricane Helene’s rainfall last September. The storm caused the New River to crest at 31 feet a day after it battered the region. In one area of Damascus, homes were lifted up and washed away. A separate storm besieged southwest Virginia in February, knocking out power to 203,000 homes and closing 270 roads. Last month, a 1.5-mile stretch of U.S. Route 58, a major thoroughfare in the road-constrained mountainous region, reopened after getting washed out.
Democrats, Republicans fight after Cuccinelli’s UVa appointment blocked in committee vote
Ken Cuccinelli, class of 1991 alumnus and former Virginia Attorney General, will not be confirmed as a member of the University's Board of Visitors — at least according to a Virginia Senate committee, run by Democrats. The Virginia Senate Privileges and Elections Committee voted not to confirm Cuccinelli’s appointment Tuesday on a party line vote, eight to four, with three Republicans absent. The Committee also blocked appointees to the Board of Visitors at other Virginia schools. The Cavalier Daily reached out to Cuccinelli, but he declined to comment. Republicans say that this is not the end of the road for Cuccinelli’s appointment.
Supervisors mull regional water strategies in joint Hanover-Henrico board meeting
If solutions to this year’s water service problems are going to come through regional collaboration, two of the localities that rely on Richmond’s aging water treatment plant say they need their neighbors to join them at the table. That was one of the messages that came out of a joint meeting of the Hanover and Henrico boards of supervisors, which spent two hours Wednesday discussing potential paths to work with Richmond and Chesterfield on regional solutions to their shared water challenges.