Virginia Can Help Make History, Kaine Says
At a late-night rally Monday, the U.S. senator and former Richmond mayor says, 'The time is now' to elect a woman as president.
View ArticleField Notes: Stoney Votes
Richmond mayoral hopeful Levar Stoney stood in line for an hour at the Richmond Public Library’s main branch to cast his ballot on Tuesday morning.
View ArticleField Notes: Berry Votes
Richmond mayoral hopeful Jack Berry says he’s confident the mayoral race will be settled today. Voters at a 2nd District precinct were split between Berry and Stoney.
View ArticleField Notes: Watch Parties
After a whirlwind day at the polls, the three leading candidates in the Richmond mayoral race will gather with supporters and celebrate as they await election returns.
View ArticleField Notes: Teflon Joe
Several voters at two precincts in the battleground 5th district said Morrissey's personal troubles and bad publicity — recent or otherwise — didn’t lead them to reconsider their decision to support him.
View ArticleField Notes: Your Next City Council and School Board
Richmond City Council incumbents swept their races, but a School Board shakeup left only one incumbent safe.
View ArticleField Notes: Stoney's Night
Richmond’s two top mayoral candidates are in a holding pattern Wednesday morning after an election night that did not render an official outcome and little went as expected.
View ArticleField Notes: Berry Concedes
Former Venture Richmond executive Jack Berry on Wednesday evening conceded the Richmond mayoral election to Levar Stoney in a statement from his campaign.
View ArticleField Notes: Mayor-Elect
The political ascent of Levar Stoney was made official late Wednesday, when Virginia’s former secretary of the commonwealth was declared Richmond’s mayor-elect.
View ArticleField Notes: From ‘Levar who?’ to Mayor-elect
In six and a half months, Stoney's campaign transformed him from a virtual unknown into Richmond's mayor-elect, delivering an improbable outright win that few, if any, outside of his team predicted....
View ArticleNew Leadership
Richmond's City Council and School Board swore in a fresh crop of representatives and elected new leadership on Monday at City Hall.
View ArticleReplacing McEachin
A special election is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 10, to choose a new representative for the 9th Virginia Senate District, which includes part of Richmond, Henrico and Hanover counties, as well as...
View ArticleBills to Watch
The 10 bills we're tracking at the beginning of the 2017 Virginia General Assembly session
View ArticleMcClellan Wins
Longtime Democratic Del. Jennifer McClellan cruised to victory in a special election held Tuesday, securing the open Senate seat in Virginia’s 9th District.
View ArticlePrivacy or Discrimination?
Del. Bob Marshall (R-Manassas) on Thursday urged fellow Republican lawmakers to back his controversial “Physical Privacy Act,” more commonly referred to as the “bathroom bill.”
View Article'Day of Tears'
Several Republican delegates want Virginians to lower their flags in remembrance of abortions that have occurred since the U.S. Supreme Court made its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade back in 1973.
View ArticleNew Mayor 'Energized and Excited for Change'
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney delivered his inaugural address Saturday, promising as he did on the campaign trail to begin restoring confidence in government, repairing schools and ushering in a new era...
View ArticleMoney Trail
The anti-Joe Morrissey political action committee formed during Richmond’s mayoral contest this past fall was fueled by cash from individuals or organizations that also donated to Mayor Levar Stoney or...
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