Brad Kutner
Richmond Bureau Chief at WVTF-FM (Roanoke, VA)
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1 week ago |
wvtf.org | Brad Kutner
Ever since Virginia expanded early voting in 2021, more people have been using absentee mail-in and early in-person voting options. But if current numbers hold, Virginia Democrats could blow previous primary early voting records out of the water. According to the Virginia Public Access Project, by the end of the June primary in 2021, with five gubernatorial candidates on the ballot, Virginia Democrats had cast about 125,000 primary votes.
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1 week ago |
wvtf.org | Brad Kutner
After the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back abortion protections nationally, Virginia became a destination for abortion access as states to the south limited the procedure. And while many though the fight over same-sex marriage was over, some in the Commonwealth hope to block the practice. Both issues are playing out in Virginia’s 2025 Gubernatorial election.
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2 weeks ago |
wvtf.org | Brad Kutner
Over 1.2 million Virginians will hit the road this Memorial Day weekend according to AAA, and Virginia State Police want every one of them wearing a seat belt in line with a new state law. Last Memorial Day weekend state troopers wrote over 530 summonses for seat belt violations, and they plan to be back on the road in full force this year.
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2 weeks ago |
wvtf.org | Brad Kutner
Passed during a Democratic trifecta in 2020, the was viewed as a monumental step toward modernizing the state’s dirty power generation. But in the face of President Donald Trump’s alternative energy funding cuts and data center-fueled power demand, the most powerful Democrats in Virginia’s legislature appear open to reviewing the law. “We went a long while with more supply than we had demand, now it's flipped upside down.
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2 weeks ago |
wvtf.org | Brad Kutner
Near the Hanover County line sits the locally owned Mechanicsville Drug Store. It’s the kind of place that still has a breakfast counter alongside greeting cards, a pharmacy and other odds-and-ends. And Wednesday morning, in between its narrow aisles, it hosted Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger. The former congresswoman was there to talk about her plans to address healthcare costs.
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