Category: Virginia Mercury

“It started November 5th, 1910. My great-great-grandparents purchased this property for $722.50,” Michael Carter Jr. said at a picnic table outside the Orange County home where generations of his family have been born and died.   As insects chirp in the grass and cows mull around the pasture, Carter points to

It’s not just that the administration of President Donald Trump, who’s proved repeatedly that he’s racist, wants to remove the name of Pearl Harbor hero Doris “Dorie” Miller from an aircraft carrier under construction at Newport News Shipbuilding – and name it for Trump, according to a published report.  The

U.S. Rep. Don Beyer, D-Alexandria, joined a recent call with small business owners from around the country to discuss economic challenges Americans are facing due to rising healthcare, food and fuel costs, which he said are the result of President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans not meeting their promise to

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The Virginia State University Board of Visitors will meet on Friday, roughly a week after the legal team representing six professors fired late last year filed discrimination complaints against the university with the Virginia Attorney General’s Office of Civil Rights. Faculty leaders have recommended the instructors, dubbed The Fired Six,

A U.S. Postal Service rule restricting mail-in voting, like the executive order from President Donald Trump that spurred it, is unconstitutional, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said in a Friday order extending a freeze on the policy. The Trump administration quickly appealed the order to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court

Virginia’s energy needs are changing quickly, and to address them we must respond even quicker. Data centers, new manufacturing, population growth and other economic development are driving electricity demand higher, putting additional pressure on an already strained grid.  At the same time, Virginia imports more power than any other state

Labor union membership continues to climb in the United States, though the increase remains sharply divided by the politics of individual states. Last year, the nation added more than 411,000 union members — the largest annual growth since 2008, according to a study published just ahead of the Labor Day

Rail passengers traveling through Virginia’s Northeast Corridor should expect cancellations, route changes and may need to rely on bus connections beginning Oct. 16, due to major track upgrades. This is part of Amtrak’s “Pause for Progress,” a critical infrastructure upgrade to replace aging track components at the A-interlocking control point

The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn a lower court and allow it to enforce a U.S. Postal Service rule restricting mail-in voting. The trial judge, Indira Talwani of the U.S. District of Massachusetts, prejudged the rule before it was final when she issued a