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Congressional Districts 5 and 10 The post Virginia GOP Decides on Congressional Candidates first appeared on Bearing Drift .

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The pandemic brought even more hikers and has caused the National Park Service to find a solution to overcrowding especially on weekends The post Permits to Hike Old Rag Begin March 1 first ap...

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Photo Credit // UNIAN One of the best things about Hitchen’s Razor is that claims asserted without evidence can indeed... The post War Crimes: Why Turning Ukraine Into Syria Is Terrible Forei...

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...and could we up our game just a little bit (please)? The post Kenney: Who Knew There Was This EU-Macron-Francis-Putin-Grandma Conspiracy Against Biden? first appeared on Bearing Drift .

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After more than 12 years as leader of the National Institutes of Health – one of the longest-serving in its history – this Virginian is stepping down to return to the human genome project lab...

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What we deserve in Virginia isn’t prohibition or Pollyanna — it is some hard nosed realism about what marijuana legalization... The post Kenney: Shifting The True Costs of Marijuana Legaliz...

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The COVID recession can no longer be an excuse for unnecessarily loose monetary policy. The post What is the Fed Waiting For? first appeared on Bearing Drift .

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Republican challenger Glenn Youngkin finally unveiled a six-point campaign for commonsense today, restoring flagging Republican confidence among the rank and... The post Kenney: Youngkin Opens ...

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All public and private in-person gatherings must be limited to 25 individuals The post Gov. Northam Announces New Statewide Measures to Contain Covid-19 first appeared on Bearing Drift .

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Punishing assaults that result in no harm as misdemeanors than with mandatory minumums an obvious step for criminal justice reform, but it's easier to lie than correct the wrongs of overcriminali...

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University of Virginia Center for Politics The post Sabato’s Crystal Ball: ‘America Votes’ Series first appeared on Bearing Drift .

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Northam is trying to find a way to make this happen with the powers at his disposal, but clearly those limits are creating burdens that are unsustainable or just irresponsible The post Virginia...

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The state isn’t even following its own guidelines for what needs to happen to reopen before reopening, so it doesn’t really matter, does it? The post But We’re Reopening Anyway first app...

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Leadership begins with the force of hope. The post Saxman: Kaine, Bush, and Giovanni first appeared on Bearing Drift .

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The new normal will dominate our public policy and political discourse for the next decade, and it will be anything but great The post What’s Next? You Probably Aren’t Going to Like It fir...

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