Politics

The General Assembly will convene in a special session Sept. 6 to approve amendments to the current two-year budget.

He will fill the remainder of former Del. Jeff Campbell’s term. He’s also running unopposed in November.

The full budget details must be released at least 48 hours before the session.

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden’s approval rating in Virginia is at 40%.

Scott Booth, who came to Danville in 2018, has been credited with leading the successful effort to turn around that city’s high crime rate.

Other details haven’t been released. A special session of the General Assembly will be needed to pass what budget negotiators have agreed on.

Tim Heaphy, the former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia who served as chief investigative counsel of the Jan. 6 committee, talks about his findings on former President Donald Trump’s alleged plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

The Democratic Party’s struggle to field candidates in Southwest and Southside not only leaves hundreds of thousands of rural voters without representation on the ballot, but it adds to the frustration that many Democrats in those areas have been feeling about being written off by the party’s leadership.

Members of the Appomattox County Board of Supervisors had indicated that they’d consider expanding the library board of trustees so they could reinstate Joetricia Humbles, who’d been ousted after a public debate over LGBTQ+-themed books. But the body took no action Monday night.

M.W. “Teedy” Thornhill Jr. became mayor in 1990 after more than a decade on the Lynchburg City Council. His statue will be unveiled Saturday.