A Bon Secours Health System employee is in hot water. The employee is an X-ray technician and was guest speaker at a Midlothian High School Assembly. At the start of the guest speaker’s presentation an inappropriate image appeared on a large screen. The image was on a thumb drive provided by the speaker, who was […]

The Virginia 2014 General Assembly Session has adjourned and lawmakers in the House and Senate have not passed the two-year 95-million state budget. Members of the General Assembly in both House and Senate left Richmond afternoon still at odds over Medicaid expansion. However, the final hours of the General Assembly session did bring agreement on […]

Several Virginia lawmakers in the Senate and House of Delegates support year-round schools. The lawmakers will unveil their support today during a press conference at the State Capitol. Year-round schooling according to the JLARC Review has been demonstrated to improve student performance. Senator A. Donald McEachin (D-Henrico) joined Miss Community Clovia on the Tom Joyner Morning […]

From the Virginia State Conference NAACP: The Virginia State Conference NAACP will hold its 2014 Legislative Day at Virginia’s General Assembly on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the 4th Floor Conference Room West in the Virginia General Assembly Building in Richmond, Virginia.  The NAACP expects members, Presidents of local […]

  Virginia legislators will hear hot issues at this year’s General Assembly session which opens on Wednesday. Lawmakers will introduce reforms to the Standards of Learning Test (SOL), ethics and disclosure, restoration of rights for felons, no-excuse absentee voting for citizens 65 or older, mental health services and a vote on the state’s 9 and […]

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    Legislators from around the Commonwealth of Virginia are in Richmond for the 2013 session of the General Assembly. Senators and Delegates will represent you so check in on them by taking an active role in the legislative process.  Some frequently asked questions “Who is my legislator?” “What bills are being introduced?” Could I attend and speak […]

Conspiracy, Manufacturing or Simple possession of marijuana that is the question: The Charlottesville City Council is supporting a resolution calling on the state to take another look at its policies concerning marijuana. Some members on council are concerned if a broader resolution which defined marijuana possession as a low priority for police would give the wrong […]

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s proposed $85 billion budget plan introduced during the opening session of the 2012 Virginia General Assembly finally passed after the fourth try. The General Assembly ended the 2012 session in early March with no budget. Lawmakers reconvened weeks later to work on budget negotiations but still no agreement.  The senate democrats […]

  UPDATE: It’s official the amended “ultrasound probe” bill has passed in the House of Delegates and will had to Governor Bob McDonnell’s desk to be signed into law.  The “ultrasound probe” law will take effect on July 1, 2012. The House passed the bill by a 64-35 margin.  Delegate Joe Morrissey, District 74, Virginia […]

Virginia General Assembly: House members voted last week by a 66-32 margin that life begins at conception. On Thursday, members in the Senate voted on the bill by a 24-12 margin.  The bill has been sent back to committee for more study.  The “personhood” bill has been tabled until the 2013 General Assembly session. The […]

Virginia Legislators wanted to strengthen the state’s ban on “texting while driving” instead, a House panel killed the last of several measures aimed at bolstering the ban. The House Militia, Police and Public Safety Subcommittee Thursday killed a Senate measure allowing police officers to pull over drivers for the sole offense of texting while behind […]

The Virginia House of the Delegates passed the “the personhood” bill by a 66-32 margin. The bill has arrived to the Virginia Senate for a vote. The bill is in the Senate Committee. Senator Donald McEachin ways in on the “personhood” bill and wants to change some language in the bill. Rights of unborn children.  […]