Michael Pope
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Virginia's 1st Congressional District leading the way in early voting (opens the original)
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Early voting is underway across Virginia. But one part of Virginia is seeing more early ballots cast. The 1st Congressional District is first numerically, first in the history of the colonies and first on the leaderboard for early voting. More early votes have been cast here than any other congressional district in Virginia. Elections analyst Chris Piper says the early numbers are driven by exurban Richmond. "You've typically seen Henrico and Chesterfield with a consistently high turnout among e
Many Northern Virginia communities won't see a school construction referendum on the ballot (opens the original)
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Many voters across Virginia are seeing a school construction referendum on the ballot this year. But most residents in Northern Virginia will not be voting on this issue. Voters across Virginia are considering a new local sales tax to raise money for school construction, more than 40 localities have it on the ballot. But none of the big Northern Virginia jurisdictions are holding a local referendum on the topic – not Fairfax County, not Loudoun, not Alexandria and not in Arlington, where Maureen
The ongoing effort to end jury fees in Virginia (opens the original)
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The Constitution guarantees the right to a jury trial for those charged with a crime. And there’s also a guarantee of legal representation. But they’re not free, and the jury alone might cost you a minimum of one thousand dollars a day. People convicted of felonies are hit with fines as punishment, but they’re also hit with fees to shift the administrative burden. That's why the Commonwealth Institute is calling on the Virginia General Assembly to eliminate user fees for jury trials and court-ap
Democrats tout new data center tax to backfill health insurance subsidies (opens the original)
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Earlier this year, House and Senate leaders were deadlocked about ending a huge tax exemption for data centers. They ended up with a compromise: hit the data centers with a new consumption tax to charge them for energy use. Now that money is being invested— $150 million in the Virginia Premium Savings program. "In some cases, the Virginia Bureau of Insurance got the premiums down—for some people, pay only $15 a month towards the silver HMO plan. And I'm really hopeful that these reduced insuranc
New report shows rising traffic crash fatality rate, as state officials work to make roads safer (opens the original)
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Virginia roads are becoming increasingly dangerous, and state officials are hoping to make them safer. Over the last decade, traffic fatalities in Virginia have spiked 11%. That grim statistic is from a new report from the transportation research group TRIP, where Rocky Moretti is director of policy and research. "What the research showed is after the pandemic, that driver behavior worsened," Moretti says. "We saw in polling of drivers; they were driving at faster speeds and they were driving mo
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