Dwayne Yancey

The attorney general’s office said a preliminary report has ruled out stress from the move as a cause of death; toxicology report is pending with a focus on a drug that the zoo administered before the animal was moved.

Spanberger has no record in state government but has released policy positions. Earle-Sears has only a thin record in state government and has been mum on details.

Talking about doing away with the tax is easy and popular; actually doing so is not. For one thing, it’s not a state tax, it’s a local tax.

The State Board of Elections has released the list of who has made this year’s ballot. In western Virginia, 71% of school board seats are uncontested.

Democrats hold strong campaign finance leads in many races across Virginia this year, according to the most recent campaign finance reports.

The poll shows Democrats leading all three statewide races, two of them by double-digit margins.

The faculty want “shared governance.” There’s nothing in state law that mandates that, though. What we have is a culture clash between a liberal faculty and a conservative governing board.

A state report lists which books were removed from school library shelves and how many each school system pulled. Most schools didn’t remove any.

The economy of the state’s biggest economic engine is changing. What happens in Northern Virginia will reach all the way to Southwest Virginia.