Some localities are winning in the marketplace — more people are moving in than moving out — but they’re still losing population because deaths outnumber births.
Dwayne Yancey
Yancey is editor of Cardinal News. His opinions are his own. You can reach him at dwayne@cardinalnews.org.
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Blacksburg, Charlottesville and Lynchburg could be potential tech hubs, studies say
The federal government will designate at least 20 “regional technology hubs” for funding. There’s a good chance one will be in Virginia. Here’s why.
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Here’s what our legislators are asking for in the state budget
Virginia has already passed a two-year state budget, but legislators have filed amendments with additional requests. Here are some of the requests coming out of Southwest and Southside Virginia.
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UVA Wise wants to be a research university. Is that practical? Here’s a comparison to other schools.
There are 187 other schools in the research classification that UVA Wise aspires to. Many are smaller than the Wise County school.
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New population figures show Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads losing population, parts of rural Virginia gaining
The fastest-growing part of the state is now the Richmond area. There’s also some evidence that young adults are moving into many rural areas.
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Public notices are increasingly less public. Two legislators want to change that.
Technology has changed but the law hasn’t. Senator Obenshain and Delegate Hope are pushing legislation that would allow government legal notices to be posted online.
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Del. Walker wants to make it easier for Lynchburg (or any other place) to elect its school board
Virginia was the last state to allow localities to switch to elected school boards. Twelve localities still don’t have them. Here’s the history.
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Youngkin is worried about people moving out of Virginia. Here’s how big that out-migration is.
Only nine other states are seeing more net out-migration than we are. Numerically, the problem is entirely because of people moving out of Northern Virginia.
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Youngkin was worried about a Ford – China deal in Pittsylvania County. Would China’s involvement really have mattered?
Gov. Youngkin nixed Virginia’s bid for a Ford electric vehicle battery plant that might have employed 2,500 people in Southern Virginia over concerns that Ford is partnering with a Chinese company that he called a “Trojan Horse” for the Chinese Communist Party.
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Life after the legislature: Former Salem Del. Habeeb now helps shape policy in other ways
Former Republican legislator Greg Habeeb is now a top lobbyist for solar and cannabis interests in Richmond.