Michael is an award-winning journalist who started covering Virginia news in 2013 with reporting stints at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Virginia Business, and Richmond BizSense. A graduate of William & Mary and Northern Virginia Community College, he also covered financial news for S&P Global Market Intelligence.
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Virginia Dems blast Trump’s interest in deporting US citizens
Virginia Democrats are calling out the Trump administration for its brazen immigration policies after President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday the possibility of deporting American citizens.
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‘Ideas are not illegal’: Arlington academic fights back against Trump administration’s deportation efforts
New details have emerged around the March arrest of Arlington resident Badar Khan Suri by immigration officials, which Suri’s lawyers argue prove that his arrest was politically motivated and violates the First Amendment.
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Virginia health care advocates join Capitol Hill rally against Republican spending cuts
Virginians joined hundreds of people to rally outside the US Capitol in Washington on Thursday to protest congressional Republicans’ plan to cut off access to health care and groceries for millions of low-income Americans.
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Spanberger says she’ll sign bill to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour
The Democratic nominee for governor, former congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, has pledged to raise Virginia’s minimum wage to $15 an hour if she is elected this fall.
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Richmond TSA workers picket to get union rights back from Trump administration
About a dozen Transportation Security Administration workers and union supporters picketed outside the Richmond International Airport on Wednesday to call on the Trump administration to reverse course on canceling their collective bargaining agreement.
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‘Worse than COVID’: Local Virginia leaders urge action in response to federal funding cuts
As news broke Tuesday that the US Supreme Court halted an order requiring the Trump administration to rehire fired probationary workers, a Virginia House of Delegates emergency committee met in Alexandria with researchers and local officials from Northern Virginia in search of solutions to the economic crisis unfolding across the region.
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Spanberger, Earle-Sears officially declared nominees for Virginia governor’s race
Former Democratic congresswoman Abigail Spanberger and the current Lieutenant Governor, Republican Winsome Earle-Sears, are the official nominees to become Virginia’s 75th governor.
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Ex-State Sen. Amanda Chase says she’s eligible to challenge Earle-Sears in a primary
Regardless of whether Chase makes the primary ballot, it appears Virginia is on track to elect a woman governor for the first time.
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Winsome Earle-Sears appears to downplay federal worker firings in leaked audio
The leading candidate in Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial primary apparently downplayed the pain of tens of thousands of federal workers who have lost their jobs as a result of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency.
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Trump pushes to end union rights for many federal workers
President Donald Trump continued his attack on federal workers on Thursday with an executive order to end collective bargaining with unions representing federal workers involved with national security work.
