Matt Fariss

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Out of office

Keeping tabs on local legislators as assembly session wraps

In brief

But today I am still just a bill Virginia’s 2022 legislative session kicks off Wednesday, January 12, in Richmond....

On the agenda

County, state representatives discuss legislative priorities

Fighting for life (without par

In August 2006, 24-year-old William Charles Morva made national headlines when he sent the Montgomery County Police...

Raising the vaping age

By Shrey Dua Daniel Devlin is a 20-year-old UVA student who’s been vaping since he was 18. If Virginia lawmakers get...

In brief

Dead or alive The General Assembly has been in session two weeks, and it is whittling down the more than 2,000 bills...

In brief

Awkward moments: Fields trial edition When we crammed more than two weeks of trial proceedings into a 4,000-word...

‘Big deal’

Mary Linn Bergstrom was in Boston over Memorial Day when she got a really bad, eyes-swollen-shut case of poison ivy....

DOA

Andy Goddard has been going to the General Assembly since 2008, the year after his son was shot four times in the...

Shifting ground

If you thought 2017 was a year like no other, well, 2018 will likely continue to ride the tide of the unprecedented,...