Politics

The case of Jasmine Lipscomb has drawn social media attention across the country.

An Opioid Abatement Authority committee recommended a total of $23 million in grants to 76 cities and counties. The funds come from Virginia’s share of settlement payments from the manufacturers and distributors of opioids.

Registrars are concerned about the expense of holding a primary, but the state says there’s no mechanism to cancel the election after early voting has taken place.

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.