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Friday, August 29, 2025

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

In Loudoun County and across Virginia, public...

Will Loudoun County’s transgender policies become Virginia’s problem?

Loudoun County Defies Title IX Directive Last week,...

Regulator approves electricity transmission line, towers in Alexandria to serve one data center

Bren Pointe residents in Fairfax County are closer to seeing steel transmission towers rise just outside their townhomes after Virginia’s regulators approved a new electricity line to serve a single planned commercial data center.

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Virginia doesn’t have statewide data center regulations. Localities are making their own rules.

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Virginia is home to over a third of the data centers worldwide. These energy hungry facilities have brought business to the commonwealth, but communities are seeing the impact of the electricity and water usage hit their utility bills. Now, many localities are debating how to balance the opportunities and challenges data centers present, and grappling with how to regulate them.

Response to “Trump’s Attack on Offshore Wind is Hurting Virginia. Why Aren’t Republican Leaders...

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The Virginia Mercury article (May 19, 2025) argues that President Donald Trump’s executive order halting offshore wind project approvals, permits, and funding is detrimental to Virginia’s economy, particularly the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, and criticizes Republican leaders like Governor Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares for not opposing it.

Virginia’s Energy Future

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According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics American manufacturing jobs have dropped from an all-time high in 1979 of 19.6 million to 12.8...

Duchess Dairy Expansion in Wythe County

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Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced today that Duchess Dairy will invest approximately $895,000 to expand its dairy processing operations in Wythe County. The family-owned and...

Shamrock Farms to Invest $59 Million in Augusta County Expansion

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Dairy product manufacturer to add 28 new jobs in conjunction with their 10th anniversary of operation in Virginia   RICHMOND, VA — Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced that...

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