With this year’s state elections behind us, we can now turn our attention to next year’s races. Here are some of the lessons we need to take with us.
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.
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Virginia’s solar trends have changed: Approvals are up, denials are down.
In 2024, Virginia localities rejected more megawatts than they approved. So far in 2025, that trend has reversed.
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How President Grant helped create modern Virginia by stopping a plan to move the nation’s capital to St. Louis
If the move-to-St. Louis effort had succeeded in 1870, Northern Virginia would not be what it is today — and the fallout from federal job cuts and data center growth would be playing out in Missouri and Illinois, not here.
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Here’s how you can put together an all-Virginia menu for Thanksgiving
You can find most of the ingredients for a classic Thanksgiving feast grown in Virginia. Here’s what that tells us about the state of Virginia agriculture.
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Should colleges sell their football teams to private investors? That day may be coming.
College football is big business, but it looks to students to subsidize it. What if it were even bigger business? Private equity funds are looking to take a stake in the action.
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Behind Virginia Democrats’ blue wave of votes was a green wave of money. Some challengers outspent Republican incumbents 14-1 on television.
House Democrats outraised 2.5 times more money than Republicans and wound up outspending them 14 times over on broadcast television in some key races.
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Spanberger and senators get a dour economic forecast: Virginia is trading high-wage jobs for lower-wage ones
The governor-elect and Senate Finance Committee also heard about how artificial intelligence is eliminating many entry-level jobs and making it harder for young adults to enter the workforce.
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5 ways to measure whether the Spanberger administration succeeds
Here are five things the incoming governor could do that would constitute “winning.”
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Macy rips Cline as she enters congressional race. There’s no guarantee that’s who she’ll be running against, though.
Across Virginia there are 11 incumbents and more than 30 challengers. None of them know what districts next year will look like, so how do they know where to campaign or who to run against?
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A frontier doctor had a plan to seize Pittsburgh for Virginia and led an Augusta County militia to arrest Pennsylvania officials.
While much of Virginia was angry with Britain, John Connolly was busy using force against Pennsylvania’s land claims. When war came, he sided with the British and wound up in custody.
