Win McNamee/Getty The childhood obesity rates are high in Virginia. A bill was introduced in the General Assembly to activate 150 minutes of physical education a week. Opponents to the bill said it would cost local districts millions of dollars and take away from other instructional programs. Governor Bob McDonnell is a proponent of exercise […]
Virginia Supreme Court Justice Leroy Roundtree Hassell, Sr. has died. Hassell was Virginia’s first black Supreme Court Justice, appointed by former Governor Timothy Kaine. He was 55 years old. State officials did confirm that Chief Justice Hassell had been ill for quite some time. They did not elaborate on the nature of his health problems. […]
Citizens of Virginia will not be allowed to use a federal employment authorization card as a form of identication to obtain a Virginia driver’s license. The potential change is following a deadly accident where Carlos Montano was driving drunk and slammed into a car with nuns, killing Sister Denise Mosier. Montano used a federal employment […]
U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson denied a motion on Monday to dismiss Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s lawsuit against the Obama administration on the healthcare reform bill. Judge Hudson, ask the question of, quote, ”whether or not Congress has the power to regulate and tax a citizen’s decision not to participate in interstate commerce.” Cuccinelli is […]
