Davis Burroughs

Last year at Short Pump Middle School in Glen Allen, a “code blue” was called over the P.A. system. At first, students thought it was just a drill, but then the fire alarm went off and another voice came over the intercom to tell students to get down. Teachers began barricading doors. Some students cried and texted their…

Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all of today’s Virginia news coming right up. And if you’re a fan, please forward to three friends who need to know what’s going on in the Commonwealth and tell them to subscribe here.  But first … Richmond’s Ellen Fitzsimmons, SunTrust’s chief legal counsel, has been named…

In a new campaign ad, State Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant (R-Henrico) says she wants to ban bump stocks, devices used to fire ammunition cartridges in rapid succession. There’s just one problem — last year, as a member of the General Assembly, Dunnavant voted no on a bill that would have made it a misdemeanor under state…

Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all of today’s Virginia news coming right up. And if you’re a fan, please forward to three friends who need to know what’s going on in the Commonwealth and tell them to subscribe here.  But first … Wingardium leviosa! The magical sounds of ‘Harry Potter and the…

In the aftermath of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Karen Mallard took a grinder to her husband’s new AR-15. She sawed it in half to make a point about gun control in a campaign video that went viral. “Gun violence is real, but I don’t want it…

Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all of today’s Virginia news coming right up. And if you’re a fan, please forward to three friends who need to know what’s going on in the Commonwealth and tell them to subscribe here.  But first … Try a spooky spirit, if you dare. The Virginia ABC…

Just one month before the state legislature election, a Washington Post-Schar School poll finds gun policy is a top issue for Virginia voters. That may bode well for Democrats, who have seized on the issue in the aftermath of the May mass shooting in Virginia Beach. Three of four voters rank gun policy as a…

Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all of today’s Virginia news coming right up. And if you’re a fan, please forward to three friends who need to know what’s going on in the Commonwealth and tell them to subscribe here.  But first … Congratulations to Andrea Carson Johnson, a 12th-grade English teacher at…

Female Democratic candidates for the Virginia General Assembly who back full access to reproductive health care will get another $1.5 million to support their campaigns from Emily’s List, The Washington Post reports. The donation comes on top of another $600,000 the pro-Democratic political action committee made in partnership with Priorities USA earlier this year. Together,…

Virginia voters heavily favor having Democrats take control of the state legislature in the November elections over leaving Republicans in power, according to a poll released Monday by the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University. Powered by a 17-point advantage among independents, 53% of voters said they want Democrats to have majorities in the…