At least four political events in the coming month will prove consequential. Three of them come in the same week. Here’s a preview.
Dwayne Yancey
Yancey is founding editor of Cardinal News. His opinions are his own. You can reach him at dwayne@cardinalnews.org or 540-529-1136.
Posted inOpinion
Perriello hires Del. Lily Franklin as his campaign manager
The Montgomery County legislator says her job as a state delegate will come first.
Posted inOpinion
Proposed redistricting map splits Christiansburg between two congressional districts. Here are some other splits.
The current congressional map minimizes the number of localities divided between congressional districts. The proposed map increases them. Here are some of the ways localities in the western part of Virginia would be divided.
Posted inOpinion
Roanoke is not alone in trying to figure out how to generate more concerts for its facilities
We have more entertainment options than we did when the Berglund Center opened in 1971 as the Roanoke Civic Center, but those acts also have an increasing number of other places where they can play.
Posted inOpinion
Readers posed questions about redistricting. Here are the answers.
Early voting is now underway in the April 21 special election on redistricting. We asked readers what questions they had.
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U.S. Supreme Court may nix counting mail ballots after Election Day. The Virginia math says it doesn’t matter.
The number of mail ballots that arrive and get counted after Election Day is less than 1% of the total number of votes cast. While those could matter in a close election, in practice, they haven’t.
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Legislators ponder a different way to tax data centers. Should that new way also be based on a locality’s economic status?
The proposal, which Gov. Abigail Spanberger recently talked about, is to tax data centers based on how much electricity they use. Del. Wren Williams, R-Patrick County, says this should be a tiered system with lower tax rates in rural areas to encourage data centers to locate in rural areas that want them.
Posted inOpinion
Report says 35% of the jobs in Virginia may be at risk to artificial intelligence. Southside the least impacted, Northern Virginia the most.
The report, commissioned by the Virginia Chamber Foundation, identifies which jobs are most at risk and which ones are immune.
Posted inOpinion
Current congressional map follows mountains. The proposed one doesn’t. Should that matter?
Before we discard the current congressional map, let’s take a look at how it was drawn, an exercise that takes us to the question of “what constitutes a community of interest?”
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Roanoke’s Berglund Center was built for the entertainment landscape of 1971. That world doesn’t exist today.
The lack of big shows or big games is not a failure of management or marketing, it’s simply a fundamental change in the entertainment market. Roanoke needs to keep that in mind as it contemplates an “entertainment district.”
