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cardinalnews.org | Elizabeth Beyer
A former Pulaski town councilman charged with four misdemeanors received a deferred disposition on Friday on all charges. Michael Reis, a former member of the Pulaski Town Council, was charged with three class 1 misdemeanors and one class 3 misdemeanor in 2024 relating to alleged ethics and conflict of interest law violations in his role as a public official between January 2021 and April of that year. He received a deferred disposition on all four charges on Friday without an admission or plea.
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ourcommunitynow.com | Elizabeth Beyer
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued $900 million in line-item vetoes Friday to the budget amendments package passed by the General Assembly in February. Those cuts are primarily to higher education capital projects, including expansions of the Virginia Tech-Carilion School of Medicine and Fralin Biomedical Research Institute in Roanoke and the Institute for Advancing Learning and Research in Danville.
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2 weeks ago | 
cardinalnews.org | Elizabeth Beyer
Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued $900 million in line item vetoes Friday to the budget amendments package passed by the General Assembly in February. Those cuts are primarily to higher education capital projects, Youngkin said. Youngkin attributed the cuts, higher than previously anticipated, to what he called “short term risks” due to cuts, shake ups and uncertainty at the federal level, though he did not use those terms, and the need to create more of a cushion to account for unknowns.
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2 weeks ago | 
cardinalnews.org | Elizabeth Beyer
Early voting in the June 17 primary begins May 2. For information on who’s running and election deadlines, see our Voter Guide. The singular Republican incumbent to see a primary challenger in this year’s House of Delegates races is an unexpected one, according to one lawmaker. Sen. Todd Pillion, R-Washington County, said that Del. Terry Austin, R-Botetourt County, was the last person that he and other members of the General Assembly expected to see a primary challenge in June.
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2 weeks ago | 
cardinalnews.org | Elizabeth Beyer
Dirk Padgett, candidate for Botetourt County Board of Supervisors, received a public reprimand dated April 22 from the Virginia State Bar Association for violating rules that govern fees, safekeeping property and misconduct between a lawyer and a client.
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3 weeks ago | 
cardinalnews.org | Elizabeth Beyer
Early voting begins May 2 for the June 17 primary elections. See who’s running and find other voter information in our Voter Guide. We’ve sent questionnaires to all the candidates and will publish those responses in the Voter Guide shortly before early voting begins. Candidates who have questions should contact [email protected].
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1 month ago | 
cardinalnews.org | Elizabeth Beyer
New, additional “manual review processes” handed down by the Federal Emergency Management Agency have led to a delay in funding for Hurricane Helene-related response and recovery in Southwest Virginia, according to a memo sent by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management to localities. That memo, sent Friday and obtained by Cardinal News, added that the state agency does not know when localities will begin to see financial relief for the cost of rebuilding that public infrastructure.
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1 month ago | 
cardinalnews.org | Elizabeth Beyer
For more on the June 17 primaries, see our Voter Guide. The candidates for the House of Delegates elections have, for the most part, been set as the race to determine power in the state house gets underway. Downballot, a handful of primary elections are expected for House seats held by Republicans in the Southwest and Southside regions. Over the weekend, Republican officials confirmed that enough candidates have filed to force three primaries in the region.
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1 month ago | 
cardinalnews.org | Elizabeth Beyer
Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, have submitted the paperwork necessary to face off in the race to be Virginia’s next governor, and the first woman to hold the seat. There may be a Republican primary for the executive office in June, however. Earle-Sears’ campaign filed paperwork to appear on the ballot, and the number of signatures her campaign submitted was verified by the Republican Party of Virginia on March 19.
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1 month ago | 
cozen.com | Michael Martz |Elizabeth Beyer |Olivia Diaz |Julia Hammond
Virginia Viewpoint: Reconvened Session Update
As the dogwoods bloom, so did debate in the Capitol — where Governor Glenn Youngkin’s amendments and vetoes took center stage.
On Wednesday, the Virginia General Assembly reconvened in Richmond to consider the Governor’s changes to legislation and the state budget. Legislators worked into the evening, reviewing 205 budget recommendations, 8 line-item vetoes, 157 legislative vetoes, and 159 bill amendments.
