by Lowell (three weeks after open-heart surgery; feeling a lot better, although I still need to take it easy so this will be a Virginia-only news clips for the time being. The cover image, by the way, is from FiveThirtyEight.com)
- Court experts’ proposed congressional map would draw Spanberger out of 7th District (“New maps proposed in Virginia’s redistricting process published Wednesday could deliver more compact districts and slightly more political opportunity for voters of color, but result in a scramble of incumbents across the state.”)
- Proposed map slices Albemarle in three, puts Spanberger outside 7th
- Spanberger stranded as Virginia nears new congressional map (“Spanberger is the only incumbent left without a home. She currently represents the 7th District but was grouped with GOP Rep. Rob Wittman in the new, red-leaning 1st District. The new 7th District, meanwhile, heavily favors Democrats but is nestled in the suburbs of northern Virginia, roughly an hour or so north of Spanberger’s home in Glen Allen.”)
- Proposed Virginia redistricting maps leave Spanberger miles away from her congressional seat (“Congressional candidates don’t have to live in the district they represent, but Spanberger would be left nearly 50 miles away from the proposed 7th District boundary unless she chose to move.”)
- Youngkin says he will remove Virginia from Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (Massive mistake, totally brain-dead, but not surprising given that Youngkin’s a climate science denier and has some horrendous economic and environmental advisors, such as Stephen “Trumponomics” Moore and Trump’s disastrous EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler. Yes, this is going to be a loooong four years, sad to say.)
- Will Youngkin’s rigid regulation-slashing pledge clash with common sense?
- Youngkin pledges to pull Virginia from carbon market by executive order
- Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin announces he will back Virginia out of RGGI
- Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin wants Virginia out of carbon-reduction initiative
- Potential congressional candidates throw their names into the mix after legislative map proposals were released
- With judges’ ruling in recount, GOP cements two-seat majority in Virginia House of Delegates
- Recount confirms Republican challenger A.C. Cordoza’s election to House in Peninsula’s 91st District
- Schapiro: Possible special session maybe not that special after all
- Editorial: One Virginia, two budgets (“The commonwealth’s quirky budget protocol does an incoming governor no favors as the outgoing governor constructs his own spending plan.”)
- Miyares names Mitch McConnell’s former counsel as Virginia’s solicitor general (The Virginia AG’s office is going to go in a few weeks from superb, under AG Mark Herring, to horrendously bad, under soon-to-be AG Jason Miyares. Yes, elections have consequences – in this case, very VERY bad ones.)
- Miyares picks ex-McConnell counsel as solicitor general
- Congressman Beyer: NASA should be able to lease out some of its facilities
- Editorial: Ideas from Virginia’s bipartisan school construction commission deserve bipartisan support
- DEQ is still failing to protect state waters from MVP
- COVID cases are rising again in Virginia, thanks to colder weather and Thanksgiving gatherings
- How A Push To Reopen Schools Activated Parents In Northern Virginia
- Northam pitches $245 million for state nature trails, including new one in the Richmond area
- Yorktown Foundation to require new rules for lighted boat parade after “Let’s go, Brandon” controversy (Just bizarre.)
- Coal makes a comeback in Virginia
- A brighter future for rural airports? (“Southwest and Southside to benefit from $400 million in federal funding for Virginia airports.” Note that Virginia’s Republican members of Congress all voted NO on this funding.)
- Loudoun County renames John Mosby and Harry Byrd highways (“Highways named after a Confederate army commander and a segregationist ex-governor will become Little River Turnpike and Leesburg Pike once again.”)
- Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue will be melted down by city’s African American history museum
- D.C.-area forecast: Cool today, but record warmth is likely Saturday (“Highs in the low 40s today leap to the low 70s on Saturday”)
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