The following is a guest blog by Lori Haas. It was a beautiful spring morning ten years ago when I got the phone call from my daughter, Emily. “Hi Mom, I’ve been shot,” she said. I immediately dropped what I had been doing and raced towards Blacksburg with my husband, breaking every traffic law as […]
Dr. Siobhan Dunnavant is an OB-GYN. She’s also a state senator. That seems awesome, right? It would be great to have a doctor with women’s interests in mind as a State Senator. Dunnavant Doesn’t Care About Women Turns out, Senator Dunnavant hasn’t exactly prioritized women’s health in the State Senate. She put a conservative political […]
The vote is on and we have a front row seat to The Resistance. Both of Virginia’s Senators–Tim Kaine and Mark Warner–-are voting for the people. That is, they’re voting against Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court. They’re also voting against cloture (we’ll get to that in a minute). These votes are good […]
Equal Pay Day is happening on April 4th this year. The day marks how long into 2017 a woman must work to earn as much as the average man in 2016. As the flowers bloom and the weather warms, it’s crazy to realize how much of the year has passed. We’re well into 2017; women […]
TrumpCare is dead (!) so you might be wondering right now what exactly Medicaid is and why we’re talking about expanding it in Virginia. Good question! Let’s get some answers. Why are we having this conversation? The Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, gives states the option to expand eligibility for their Medicaid programs to […]
A recent event in Richmond looked like a Trump rally with people wildly cheering on the political candidate as he hammered away on immigration. “This issue of illegal immigration is not a racial issue, it’s about public safety,” said Corey Stewart, a Virginia gubernatorial hopeful. “If someone is in our country illegally, and they commit […]
When Republicans announced the American Health Care Act, we knew it would be bad, but no one expected the bill to be quite this terrible. After eight years of whining and complaining about the very successful Affordable Care Act (ACA), the best alternative Republicans could come up with is, as our new president would say, […]
When the Supreme Court tells you to reconsider your decisions, it might be an indication you’ve completely disregarded the Constitution. That’s the case in Virginia, which was directed to reexamine some (very) suspicious redistricting that might have been (was definitely) politically motivated and probably (yes definitely) racist. BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?! Let’s talk about […]
We compiled the five most important things every person should know about Jeff Sessions. 1. Jeff Sessions lied under oath during his confirmation hearing. During Sessions’ Attorney General confirmation hearing, Senator Al Franken asked Sessions a question about investigating the Trump campaign’s possible communications with Russia. Sessions answered, “I’m not aware of any of those […]
Last week, Speaker of the House of Delegates Bill Howell announced his retirement, setting off speculation over who would take over the dias. Well, speculate no more. The House Republican Caucus voted to name Delegate Kirk Cox as the Speaker-designate. Here’s five things you need to know about the presumptive next Speaker of the House […]