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One year later: A look at the Mountain Valley Pipeline
One year after the Mountain Valley Pipeline was completed, scars on the landscape along parts of its route through Southwest Virginia remain fresh. From the top of Poor Mountain in Roanoke County, a strip of bare earth can be seen cutting a swath up and down a wooded slope — marking the path of a buried pipeline that began transporting natural gas to East Coast markets on June 14, 2024. ... In its most recent construction status report, filed May 13 with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Mountain Valley said final restoration has been completed on the approximately 100 miles of pipeline that run through the New River and Roanoke valleys. But as the view from Poor Mountain attests, the restoration is far from final.
Hundreds Protest At ‘No Kings’ Rallies Across Fairfax
Large crowds of protesters gathered at street corners and along roads across Fairfax County on Saturday to exercise their First Amendment right to peacefully demonstrate against the policies of President Donald Trump. The protests were part of the “No Kings” rallies nationwide organized by volunteer networks affiliated with Indivisible, WoFA and Third Act. The demonstrations were timed to coincide with a military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary that falls on President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday. It was also Flag Day.
As Trump’s military parade takes to the street, so do thousands of ‘No Kings’ protesters in Hampton Roads
To Heidi Dragneff, the “No Kings” protests across Hampton Roads and the nation on Saturday weren’t really about politics. “It’s about honor,” the Navy veteran said as she was about to march through Norfolk. “It’s about what we still believe in that oath, in that flag, in that promise we made to each other and future generations.” For Angela Taylor, it was about patriotism. The 66-year-old cancer patient was one of many holding American flags at the protest in Chesapeake — she said she bought the last one in stock at a nearby Walgreens. “Because I live here and I’m going to be here,” Taylor said of why she was holding the flag. “And if anybody needs to leave, it’s him.”
Roanoke rallygoers say no to Trump, kings
Roanoke joined the nationwide “No Kings” movement with two separate rallies Saturday protesting President Donald Trump’s policies. Roanoke Indivisible rallied in the morning at McCadden Park in northwest Roanoke, and a second protest organized by Roanoke resident Steve Davidson was held at Elmwood Park downtown in the afternoon. Speakers at both events urged attendees to take a stand against what they saw as overreach by Trump and his administration.
No Chesterfield, no Richmond, no water authority
Kudos to Henrico and Hanover counties, whose boards met on Wednesday to discuss a path forward after recent meltdowns at the Richmond Water Treatment Plant left residents in parts of both counties — not to mention all of Richmond — without potable water for six days in January, and then again in late May. That two of RVA’s largest jurisdictions are on board with some kind of regional approach to address the root causes — city mismanagement of a century-old water treatment plant that’s in desperate need of modernization and repair — is significant. ... The problem? Richmond, which owns and controls the asset Henrico and Hanover want to oversee, wasn’t part of the meeting. And central Virginia’s largest jurisdiction, Chesterfield County, which has actual experience with a regional authority and more water capacity than either Henrico or Hanover, was MIA.
Williams: Heavy on country, light on Black artists: Richmond’s new venue needs DEI
Sly Stone modeled a brand of diversity, equity and inclusion that would serve well as a template for Richmond’s new musical venue, Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront. Sly and the Family Stone as a band was an early model of integration — Black, white, male and female — when it arrived on the music scene in the late 1960s. One of its biggest hits, “Everyday People,” celebrated difference at a time of intense racial strife, urban unrest and political polarization ... But looking at the lineup of artists, I detected the harsh note of exclusion, and the sense that this $30 million venue was not built for folks like me.
Democrats running for lieutenant governor make final arguments before primary
With few major policy differences separating them — save for a sharp split over a proposed casino in Tysons Corner — the leading Democratic candidates for lieutenant governor are emphasizing their life stories and political résumés, hoping personal experience will help them earn votes in what is expected to be a low-turnout primary on Tuesday. Democratic contests to pick nominees for lieutenant governor and attorney general are the only two statewide races on the ballot Tuesday.
Suing Trump is key issue in Va.’s Democratic AG primary
President Donald Trump’s massive cuts to the federal workforce have become the backdrop to the Democratic primary for attorney general in Virginia, with both candidates in the race criticizing Attorney General Jason S. Miyares (R) for not challenging the administration’s moves in a state that hosts much of the federal government’s infrastructure and nearly 200,000 of its employees. The two Democrats competing in Tuesday’s primary — Jerrauld C. “Jay” Jones, a former state lawmaker from Norfolk who unsuccessfully sought the party’s nomination four years ago, and Shannon Taylor, the longtime elected prosecutor in the Richmond suburb of Henrico County — both say they would immediately shift course and join several ongoing lawsuits filed by a coalition of Democratic attorneys general across the country.
Tuesday primary features five House contests in Richmond area
Richmond-area voters will pick Democratic nominees in five contests for the House of Delegates on Tuesday, in addition to Democratic nominees for lieutenant governor and attorney general. Democrats now hold a 51-49 edge in the House. All 100 House seats are up for election in November. Three of the five Richmond-area contests will pick Democratic nominees in districts where the party is targeting Republican incumbents in November — Dels. David Owen, R-Goochland, Mark Earley, R-Chesterfield, and Carrie Coyner, R-Chesterfield.
Judge: Virginia registrar charged in failed elections case cannot sue Miyares
A former Northern Virginia elections registrar cannot sue state Attorney General Jason S. Miyares (R) and a top deputy over what she says were bogus charges related to her handling of 2020 presidential election results, according to a federal judge who found the prosecutors have legal immunity from such claims. The judge’s order allows former Prince William County registrar Michele White to continue suing two other defendants — a pair of investigators from Miyares’s office who White says fabricated evidence against her to build a felony case that cost the registrar her career but ultimately crumbled before it could go to trial.