Loudon County

Wednesday

Amber Duke

Youngkin brings justice to Loudoun sexual assault case

Today we’re following some good news out of Virginia, which will be holding elections for the state legislature this fall. Republicans are trying to retain control of the General Assembly and flip the State Senate in hopes of getting a “trifecta” — control of both chambers of the state legislature and the governorship — for the first time in a decade. Governor Glenn Youngkin has been incredibly hands-on with the GOP’s efforts and has raised a record amount of money through his associated political action committee, Spirit of Virginia PAC. I recently traveled down to Virginia Beach to attend one of the governor’s “Parents Matter” listening sessions.

Monday

Teresa Mull

The school choice moment is now

There’s been a lot of professed outrage lately over woke school boards. According to Republican candidates for office, they're infiltrating children’s curricula with critical race theory, recruiting drag queens to read at story hour for pre-schoolers, and engaging in other forms of — shall we say — “incompetence.” But the real heroes pushing back against left-wing ideologies in government schools are the parents, when it ought to be lawmakers. Outspoken parents in New Jersey made headlines when they protested their school district removing holiday names from the school calendar. Voters in San Francisco — yes! — recalled school board members who thought renaming schools “with a connection to colonialism” was more important than educating kids.