Politics

The year-old Adult Detention Center was built with the idea that it would make money by housing inmates from other localities and from the federal government. Those inmates have been slow to materialize.

The Farmville attorney said that he “cannot in good conscience serve alongside certain individuals” who have won Republican nominations elsewhere.

Update, June 7: Marsden has now dropped out of the race.

These numbers mark the lowest ratings that Youngkin received in this poll during the first 15 months of his four-year term as Virginia’s top executive.  That’s because more people in the poll identified as Democrats than before. 

The June 20 primary for District 39, which also encompasses part of Roanoke County, may be tantamount to election. So far there is no Democratic candidate.

Democrats have nominated Renie Gates of Floyd County to run for the District 7 Senate seat. Gates’ mother, Patty Quesenberry is the Democratic candidate for a House seat in District 47.

The newly signed deal to raise the nation’s debt limit paves the way for construction on the controversial project to resume, but opponents say they aren’t ready to surrender.

The incumbent took 91.7% of the votes at a mass meeting. So far, there’s no Democrat on the ballot for this Republican-leaning district in the New River Valley.

Democrats claimed the current registrar was unfairly ousted. This isn’t the first time that Lynchburg has faced controversy over a change in registrars.

The U.S. senator from Virginia had said the expediting of permits to build and operate the 303-mile gas pipeline was completely unrelated to the nation’s debt ceiling. His effort failed on a vote of 30-69.