Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, virtually joins a discussion panel with criminal justice experts in Richmond on May 14, 2025 to discuss a forthcoming record-sealing law. (Charlotte Rene Woods/Virginia Mercury)
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Democrat and Henrico County School Board member Alicia Atkins will contest longtime Virginia Delegate Delores McQuinn in a party primary election June 17 for the right to seek Virginia’s 81st
“We should not have to pay a for-profit company in order to file our taxes easily,” said Del. Kathy Tran, D-Fairfax, who sponsored a bill this year that would have the state develop a free individual state income tax filing program
Meanwhile in Newport News, a separate task force is working to address the displacement of a once-thriving Black neighborhood that was usurped to make way for Christopher Newport University