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Tim Kaine

Feb 11, 2025

Kaine, Warner want answers from FAA about possible Musk intervention

In the wake of the fatal Washington, D.C., collision between a U.S. Army helicopter and an airplane, U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, along with other Democratic lawmakers from Maryland and Virginia, want assurance that leaders at the Federal Aviation Administration will notify Congress if billionaire Elon Musk directs the agency to take any […]

The post office at 1801 Brook Road in Richmond. Photo by Brodie Greene/VCU Capital News Service
Nov 22, 2024

Virginia mail service improves; second Trump push to privatize USPS ‘unlikely’

U.S. Postal Service operations have continued to improve, but a bipartisan coalition of state leaders say more work is needed to get the service to a level Virginians deserve. Virginia was ranked at the bottom for on-time mail delivery in October 2023, at the start of the federal government‘s fiscal year. Just over 66% of […]

Sep 29, 2024

The bottom of the ballot

Congressional races don’t get the big spotlight in presidential election years, but the bottom of the ballot is still important, as presidents need some legislative cooperation to get things done. In Virginia, two-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine is seeking reelection against Republican challenger Hung Cao, a retired U.S. Navy captain. All 11 of Virginia’s […]

Aug 30, 2023

Government | Politics 2023: TIM KAINE

A Democratic leader who has served as Richmond’s mayor and Virginia’s lieutenant governor and governor, Kaine has been the state’s junior U.S. senator since 2013 and is running for a third term in 2024. He came to national prominence in 2016 as Hillary Clinton’s running mate in her unsuccessful presidential campaign. Kaine grew up in […]

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine made the case for the FBI headquarters to move to Virginia in a March 9 meeting with U.S. General Services Administration officials. Photo courtesy office of U.S. Sen. Mark Warner
May 30, 2023

Poll: Nation thinks NoVa should get FBI HQ

Nearly two-thirds of surveyed voters think a new FBI headquarters to replace the agency’s crumbling Washington, D.C., home should be built in Virginia. That’s according to a national survey released in late April by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce. More than a decade in the works, the move is being handled by the U.S. General […]

L to R: Petersburg Mayor Samuel Parham, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine and Stan Benson, site head of Civica Petersburg, tour the nonprofit drugmaker’s new facility. Photo by Kate Andrews
Apr 28, 2022

Civica to produce lower-cost insulin

Civica Rx, a nonprofit generic drug-maker with a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant under construction in Petersburg, plans to produce three forms of insulin priced at $30 per vial beginning in early 2024, a project that dovetails with a bill in Congress that would cap consumers’ out-of-pocket insulin costs. Civica’s 140,000-square-foot, $124.5 million Petersburg production facility wi[...]

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