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School Boards Are Failing Our Students, and Absenteeism Is Just the Symptom

In Loudoun County and across Virginia, public...

Google, Virginia policy makers discuss growing data center demand

Leading tech firm Google, which has invested over $4 billion in Virginia and owns three data center campuses in the northern region of the state, co-hosted a private meeting in Richmond Tuesday alongside the state’s energy department to talk about how electric grid investments can meet data centers’ rising energy needs. 

Senate Republicans intend to introduce a law to enshrine the ‘right to work’ in Virginia constitution

Senate intend to introduce a law to enshrine the ‘‘ in constitution

Senate Republicans announced Tuesday that they are attempting to amend the Virginia constitution in order to codify Virginia’s “right-towork” law.

Virginia passed the law in 1947, which says that workers ‘t have to pay dues for simply because they work in a unionized workplace.

Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle Sears, who was present at the press conference with Republicans, argued against the characterization that the law is anti-union, but instead said it is against “forced unionization”. Earle Sears is currently running for against former U.S. Rep. . Spanberger decided not to run for re-election in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District 2024, instead running for the governorship.

of Rockingham County said that there have been many attempts to repeal this law over the last 78 years. In 2016, voters rejected a -sponsored amendment to the state constitution that would have enshrined the law.

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