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SERWAN ZANGANA: Political Failures Led To Recent Murder of Corrections Officer In Grayson County

Correctional Officer Jeremy Hall was killed on November 17, 2025, by an inmate at River North Correctional Center in Grayson County, Virginia, while he was conducting a meal service...

Sen. Suetterlein Files 2026 Legislation Expanding Tax Relief & Education

Virginia legislators started filing bills for the 2026 General Assembly this week, and Senator David...

Progressives Urge Assembly to Soak the Rich, But Likely Tax Increases Will Reach Everyone

As a new Democratic Party trifecta looms in Virginia, a progressive policy group has floated...

Dissecting the Blue Wave: Turnout

Gov. Glenn Youngkin yesterday blamed Tuesday’s shellacking of the Republican Party in Virginia on the...

We Lost More Than an Election — Here’s What Comes Next

We lost all three statewide races. We lost 13 House seats. No Republican won outside...

The Spirit of VMI Speaks: VMI ’74 Leads The Way

Members of VMI’s Class of 1974 released a letter to its Brother Rats last Monday (http://thecadetfoundation.org/vmi74/), challenging its 50th Reunion Committee’s efforts to raise...

What Happened to All Those Promises to Defend Virginia’s Heritage?

By Donald Smith. This was first published in Bacon's Rebellion and is shared here by permission.  Many Bacon’s Rebellion readers — me included — worry that Virginia’s...

The Alumni Rebellion Spreads to JMU

By James A. Bacon and originally published on Bacon's Rebellion. Published here by permission.  A group of James Madison University alumni has organized a new...

Youngkin Wants to Jump-Start Economic Growth

By James A. Bacon and originally published on Bacon's Rebellion. Shared here by agreement.  Governor Glenn Youngkin addressed many topics in his State of the...

AEP Raised Rates for Customers Again. Why?

This winter, heating bills across the country are expected to increase by 17% – the highest cost in more than a decade. According to...

Lt. Gov. Sears Calls For School Choice–“Hope And Future For Every Child”

Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears (R), the first Black woman to hold that office, recently issued this press release calling on the General Assembly to...