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The 2020 session led by the new Democratic majority was “the worst ... for business in the history of the commonwealth,” says Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah, the house minority leader.
Dec 30, 2020

Representing the underdogs

Although it’s hard to think way back to January 2020, a time before a year of social unrest, pandemic and economic peril, that’s when Virginia’s legislature and executive branch became majority-Democrat for the first time since 1993. However, even if some Virginians forgot about this significant shift, Republican lawmakers have not. Just before Thanksgiving, Virginia […]

Virginia State Capitol. Courtesy Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
Jan 28, 2020

Could Democratic General Assembly repeal Va.’s right-to-work laws?

Buoyed by the Virginia legislature’s new Democratic majority, bills to repeal Virginia’s right-to-work laws have the greatest chance of making it to the governor‘s desk in a generation, predict political scientists. “I think it absolutely will [get repealed], but it will be a big fight,” says Elsie Harper-Anderson, director of the Ph.D. program in public […]

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