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McAuliffe seeks second term vs. newcomer Youngkin

Retired Carlyle Group co-CEO Glenn Youngkin is running as a pro-business candidate, campaigning on jobs, education and public safety. Photos by AP

The candidates running for governor in November face the convergence of two Virginia political trends. The first is the commonwealth’s tendency to vote for governors of the opposing party from…

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The Virginia Senate held a socially distanced session at the Science Museum of Virginia this year, while the House of Delegates met virtually Photo by Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP.

Seismic session

Short legislative session brings big changes for businesses, society

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With short legislative sessions and state elections looming in the fall, odd-numbered years have developed an often-unfair reputation for being a slack time for the General Assembly. Observers of the…

“The existing constitution was antiquated and not suited for the time,” says A.E. Dick Howard, who directed the commission that rewrote Virginia’s constitution in the late 1960s. Photo by Caroline Martin

Virginia’s latest constitution turns 50

Voters replaced ‘racist document’ in 1971

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The latest Virginia Constitution went into effect 50 years ago this month, but in today’s world of polarized politics, it feels like it might as well have been 1787. Virginia’s…

Speaker of the House Eileen Filler-Corn gaveled into order the April veto session of the Virginia House of Delegates, held on the State Capitol grounds due to the need for social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic. Photo AP Images/Bob Brown

A session to remember

2020 General Assembly saw protests and pandemic

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In the six weeks between the Virginia General Assembly’s March 12 adjournment and its April 22 veto session, the world changed. The dramatic societal shifts brought on by the coronavirus…