Politics

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.

The Republican-controlled board will meet Thursday to appoint a new registrar. The current registrar had figured in a 2020 court case over some ballots being processed without a Republican representative present.

Jody Pyles, a country musician, associate pastor, martial arts instructor, and body armor sales rep , takes on the incumbent in a Republican mass meeting on June 3.

Virginia senators and House members weigh in on the negotiations as the June 1 deadline to raise the debt limit approaches.

The directive to track the presence of illicit drugs marks an evolution in wastewater monitoring. This would be the first time Virginia has moved from infectious disease monitoring to drug surveillance.

He won a second-ballot, come-from-behind victory. The district runs from Appomattox County to Goochland County. The heavily Republican district has no incumbent and, so far, no Democratic candidate, which would make winning this Republican convention tantamount to election.

The judge wrote that the defamation claim against Bridgette Craighead and Black Lives Matter Franklin County lacks “foundation in fact or law,” and he ordered that their attorney fees be paid by the plaintiffs.