Sen. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax County, says if Democrats win the fall elections, they could install a new majority on UVa’s governing board.
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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Trump administration forces out the UVa president; 7 things to know (or wonder about)
To some, this is part of the Trump administration’s aggressive push to bring academia to heel. To others, this is simply a sign that he’s serious about fulfilling a campaign promise to do away with DEI. Here are some other important aspects that might deserve some attention.
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We almost ran out of power this week. Meanwhile, Congress is trying to make it harder to get new power onto the grid.
Like it or not, there’s only one form of energy we can get onto the grid quickly. The Big Beautiful Bill would shut that down in favor of energy that takes longer to develop.
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Earle-Sears and Spanberger ditch a Virginia tradition. Will they even debate at all?
Statewide candidates have typically debated before the Virginia Bar Association. This year, neither campaign agreed. It’s unclear whether we’ll see any debates this year.
Posted inCulture
Botetourt County once stretched to the Mississippi. The Google deal opens the way for a new museum to tell that story.
The state appropriated $6 million in 2022 for a museum in Botetourt, but it’s taken until now to find the local match — and a place to put the facility.
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Why Google’s data center project in Botetourt gets applause while others don’t and how the planning for it began long before the web even existed
Eight lessons that can be drawn from the announcement that Google is buying land in Botetourt County for a data center campus.
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A rewrite of the Clean Economy Act seems increasingly likely. This may pose hard questions on all sides.
The law mandates a carbon-free electric grid in Virginia by 2050. Republicans never liked the bill, but now even some Democrats are saying it should be tweaked.
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25 more places on the western side of the state that Spanberger and Earle-Sears should visit for policy lessons
Each of these places illustrates issues that the next governor, and other statewide officeholders, will have to deal with.
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Both parties face challenges this year in Virginia. Here are some of the big ones.
Here are four challenges unique to each party and two that both of them will have to grapple with.
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9 more things to know about the statewide primary results
Here are some reasons the results in the Democrats’ statewide primaries for lieutenant governor and attorney general turned out the way they did.
