The group, which will be announced in Richmond on Wednesday, is modeled after the Virginia Higher Education Business Council.
Dwayne Yancey
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Dispatch from 1776: Virginia declares itself for independence, hauls down the British flag
In some ways, Virginia has been independent since the night last June when our royal governor, Lord Dunmore, slipped out of Williamsburg and boarded a British naval vessel.
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Democrats have missed a key point in Supreme Court ruling: It lays out how early voting is an American tradition
Legal circumstances forced Democrats to argue that early voting wasn’t part of the election. The court, in a conservative ruling, details how the roots of early voting go back to Colonial times. This should help buttress early voting against attempts to restrict it.
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Should Democrats fire the Virginia Supreme Court that ruled against them? 8 things to know about an idea making the rounds
The New York Times reports that the idea came up in a conversation that U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries had with some Virginia Democrats.
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Who wins, who loses: 10 things to know about the Supreme Court ruling on redistricting
Republicans won the legal case, but not all the political winners and losers fall so neatly along partisan lines.
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The Roanoke Valley uses less water today than it did 20 years ago. What that means for Google.
Many localities have more water customers but use less water than they did two decades ago. They attribute this to replacing leaky pipes and the introduction of more water-efficient appliances.
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6 things to know about the FBI raid on Louise Lucas’s office
Lucas isn’t just any politician. She’s our most powerful state legislator and was the driving force behind redistricting, which gave her a national profile.
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Black voters were the most enthusiastic for the redistricting amendment. Southwest Democrats were the least.
The Democratic vote was down across Virginia, but it was down inconsistently. The highest retention rate from last November was generally in localities with high Black populations.
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The curious silence of Jay Jones and the Lynchburg Republican firehouse primary
Lynchburg Republicans want to test state law and create a mechanism to nominate candidates without using a state-run primary. Will the attorney general let that go forward?
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More than 3/4s of the signatures that led to mayor’s suspension came from just one part of Martinsville. It’s a neighborhood unlike the rest of the city.
Virginia’s removal law has created a situation where petition-signers have alleged a felony, but there’s no criminal indictment. What does this tell us about the law?