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Dec 29, 2022

Crowded out

Election years are not the time to make waves in Virginia’s legislature, says Greg Habeeb, a former Roanoke delegate who now advises clients pursuing legislation in the General Assembly. Big changes — the kind the state saw during the Democrats’ two years of full legislative control in 2020 and 2021 — are expected to be […]

Nov 29, 2022

2022 Political Roundtable: Red wave? Maybe a puddle

On balance, Democrats came out winners in the 2022 midterm elections, having staved off a widely forecast “red wave” of Republican victories, according to panelists at Virginia Business’ annual Political Roundtable, held Nov. 9 in Richmond. The idea of a red wave or “red tsunami” was “perhaps … a bit of a myth … largely […]

Nov 10, 2022

2022 Political Roundtable: Red wave? Maybe a puddle

On balance, Democrats came out winners in the 2022 midterm elections, having staved off a widely forecast “red wave” of Republican victories, according to panelists at Virginia Business’ annual Political Roundtable, held Wednesday, Nov. 9, in Richmond. The idea of a red wave or “red tsunami” was “perhaps … a bit of a myth … […]

Oct 28, 2022

Vested interest

Eleven months into his first term in elected office, Gov. Glenn Youngkin can boast of several economic development successes and a few legislative wins, but one thing a lot of observers are discussing is his national profile and what it could mean in 2024. Youngkin — and his careful campaign to win over not only […]

Sep 29, 2022

On the cusp

Once again, Virginia is a significant factor in this year’s national electoral playing field, in which Democrats are jockeying to stay in power and Republicans are anticipated to make midterm gains. Three congressional districts in the commonwealth — all held by Democratic female incumbents — are considered vulnerable to the GOP by differing degrees. The competitive races […]

The Virginia House of Delegates reconvened for a June 1 special session to resolve a state budget impasse. Photo by AP Images/Daniel Sangjib Min
Jun 28, 2022

Balancing act

The Virginia General Assembly returned to a familiar configuration in 2022, legislating with a Republican-majority House of Delegates and Democratic-controlled Virginia Senate for the seventh time since 2000. But while the partisan split was old hat, much else about the session was new, taking place two years into the global COVID-19 pandemic and occurring after […]

Regent University was originally founded as Christian Broadcasting Network University in 1977 by media mogul and televangelist Pat Robertson, who sought the GOP nomination for president in 1988. Photo courtesy Regent University
Apr 28, 2022

The Royals of Regent

Although Lynchburg’s Liberty University has grabbed plenty of headlines in recent years, Virginia Beach-based Regent University can more than hold its own as a politically influential private Christian institution. Founded and still run by the 92-year-old televangelist and culture warrior M.G. “Pat” Robertson, Regent now has 11,000 students, 80% of whom are enrolled online. The […]

Republican Glenn Youngkin was sworn in as Virginia's 74th governor on Jan. 15, 2022. Photo by governor's office.
Jan 16, 2022

Youngkin sworn in as Virginia’s 74th governor

RICHMOND, Va. — Republican Glenn Youngkin was sworn in Saturday as Virginia’s 74th governor on the steps of the state Capitol. The political newcomer and former private equity executive is the commonwealth’s first Republican governor since Bob McDonnell, who took office in 2010. The commonwealth also made history in electing Republicans Winsome Sears as lieutenant […]

Jan 6, 2022

Youngkin names labor secretary

Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday that former U.S. Labor Department Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management George “Bryan” Slater is his pick for Virginia’s secretary of labor. “Workforce development will play a crucial part of jumpstarting our economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Bryan’s experience and leadership will be critical to the […]

(L to R, foreground) Virginia Attorney General-elect Jason Miyares, Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin and Lt. Gov.-elect Winsome Sears led a red wave in the November 2021 elections that saw the GOP regain control of the House of Delegates. Photo by Associated Press/Steve Helber
Dec 31, 2021

The great divide

Virginia’s business community faces a strangely familiar and yet uncertain state government headed into the 2022 General Assembly session, which begins Jan. 12. Republicans rolled to victories across the board in the November 2021 election as Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin led a GOP sweep of all three statewide offices, and Republicans also won a narrow 52-48 […]

Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin retired as co-CEO of Washington, D.C., private equity company The Carlyle Group in 2020, just months before launching his successful gubernatorial campaign — his first run for public office. Photo by Stephen Gosling
Dec 31, 2021

The outsider

A former CEO who has never held political office, Glenn Youngkin will take the reins as Virginia’s next governor, having harnessed political tailwinds to a Republican sweep of statewide offices and GOP control of the House of Delegates. The electoral success ended eight years of Democratic victories, but Virginia’s 74th governor will have to contend […]

Virginia Gov. Linwood Holton made national news in 1970 for enrolling his daughter Tayloe at a majority-Black Richmond high school. Photo by Librado Romero/The New York Times/Redux
Nov 29, 2021

In memoriam: Va. Gov. Linwood Holton

The iconic fall 1970 photo of Virginia Gov. Linwood Holton escorting his daughter Tayloe to majority-Black John F. Kennedy High School is the enduring image of the Republican governor’s term. “He was fiercely independent,” says A.E. Dick Howard, the University of Virginia law professor who led the 1970 campaign to ratify a new state Constitution […]

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