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On Feb. 18, 2022, current Attorney General Jason Miyares made moves to withdraw the Commonwealth as a party in a lawsuit to get the Equal Rights Amendment adopted into the US Constitution.

The list in Executive Order Two is long and comprehensive, one big problem persists: the concerns raised by the EO do not appear to be consistent with scientific evidence.

According to the latest “State of the Commonwealth” poll from the Wason Center for Civic Leadership at Christopher Newport University, Virginia’s voters have more negative things to say about his first month in office.

School divisions across Virginia will have to redo their COVID-19 mitigation strategies to comply with the newly-signed state law.

A local organization seeks to tell the Black history of Charlottesville—one community member at a time.

One piece of legislation that passed through both the House and Senate in the Virginia General Assembly could permanently change a school-based COVID mitigation strategy going forward. 

Gov. Glenn Youngkin has said he’s always been a “strong advocate” of the COVID-19 vaccine, but rescinded a Northam-era mandate that required state employees to be vaccinated.

Rep. Abigail Spanberger introduced bipartisan legislation through the Keeping School Meals Flexible Act, which would give schools increased flexibility to continue serving meals to students safely and efficiently.

Across Virginia, there are at least nine school divisions that have either tried to enact book bans and failed, have successfully banned books from their schools’ libraries.

Senate Bill (SB) 20, which would’ve put transgender student protections under attack, didn’t make it very far.