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In brief

Scandal marred It was the most eventful—and scandal-plagued— session of the General Assembly in recent memory. Over...

Punishing

Things were looking good for opponents of Virginia’s automatic suspension of driver’s licenses for nonpayment of...

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...

The work goes on

With Richmond in turmoil over Governor Ralph Northam’s blackface past and assault allegations against Lieutenant...

In brief

Dead or alive Virginia’s General Assembly has been hard at it for three weeks now, tackling the 2,000 or so bills...

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...

‘Big deal’

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

Dominion’s win

It was a bill that had its own meme. “When Dominion writes the law: We pay twice. They get richer,” said a post that...

In brief

August 12 bills killed After white supremacists invaded Charlottesville with violent clashes that left activist...

DOA

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