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Virginia budget with data center tax moves to Spanberger’s desk
Virginia legislators passed a compromise biennial budget Monday that includes an electricity consumption tax on data centers that will bring in $1.2 billion in revenue over the next two years.
Spanberger backs House budget, but data center tax fight divides Democrats
Gov. Abigail Spanberger said she supports the Virginia House of Delegates proposal of an "expansive" data center commission.
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Virginia House and Senate clash over data center tax breaks
A fight between the Virginia House and Senate over a tax break for data centers has brought budget negotiations to a standstill.
Bill to create independent gaming commission delayed to 2027
A Virginia Senate committee voted 11-3 to effectively kill a House bill that would create an independent agency to regulate state gambling.
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Youngkin vetoes cannabis, minimum wage legislation
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed legislation Thursday that would have put Virginia on the path to a $15 per hour minimum wage and set up a retail cannabis market, killing bills that were important to Democratic state legislators he blamed for torpedoing the $2 billion Alexandria sports arena deal he’d championed. Amid a deepening partisan […]
JBG Smith pledges 1,000 affordable housing units if arena passes
Developer JBG Smith pledged Friday to preserve 1,000 workforce-affordable housing units in Alexandria near the proposed sports arena and entertainment district, up from its previous promise of 500 units — upping the ante on the controversial project, which has one more chance to succeed this year. The $2 billion public-private project championed by Gov. Glenn […]
Lucas: Alexandria arena deal is dead as far as she’s concerned
A bill that would establish a state authority for the proposed Alexandria basketball and hockey arena is not on the Virginia State Senate‘s Finance and Appropriations Committee’s docket “because [Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s] proposal is not ready for prime time,” wrote Sen. Louise Lucas, the committee’s powerful chair. According to a video released by Senate Majority [...]
Government | Politics 2023: L. LOUISE LUCAS
The undisputed queen of snarky Virginia political tweets, with 90,400 Twitter/X followers, Lucas delights in poking at Gov. Glenn Youngkin. In June, she pulled off a nailbiter primary victory against longtime Democratic Sen. Lionel Spruill. Although she’s expected to win the general election, she has bigger fish to fry as Democrats aim this fall to […]
Chase apologizes to Va. Senate ‘if I offended any one of you’; censure still in play
Updated Jan. 24 In a bid to avoid becoming the first state senator censured since 1986, state Sen. Amanda Chase on Friday apologized to her Senate colleagues, saying she was sorry “if I offended any one of you.” Her words were not enough to avoid censure, the chief patron of the censure resolution said in […]
Facing her own censure, Chase plans resolution to censure Lucas
As state Democrats seek to censure her for participating in the Jan. 6 pro-Trump rally that preceded the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, state Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield County, said she planned to file a resolution Monday to censure Democratic colleague Sen. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, for taking part in a social justice protest last […]
