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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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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.
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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.
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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.”
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New statue in, old state song out: 10 more things the General Assembly did this year
Democratic legislators named some Republicans to judgeships, created new commissions and studies but told the brown-belted bumblebee to buzz off as a potential state emblem.
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Cline, Warner, Kaine ask Rubio to designate former Salem man imprisoned in Russia as a political prisoner
In a letter, the three lawmakers ask that the U.S. Secretary of State designate Chuck Zimmerman as “wrongfully detained,” which triggers a higher level of diplomatic pressure to secure his release.
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Dispatch from 1776: Continental Navy sent to defend Virginia; it unexpectedly raids the Bahamas instead
The raid to seize British gunpowder and weapons partially avenges Lord Dunmore’s seizure of gunpowder from Williamsburg.
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From artificial intelligence to zoos, here’s what happened to some of the key bills in Richmond
Here’s the status of some of the main pieces of legislation.