Michael Pope
Virginia Public Radio ReporterMichael Pope is an author and journalist who lives in Old Town Alexandria. He has reported for NPR, the New York Times and the Alexandria Gazette Packet. He has a master's degree in American Studies from Florida State University, and he is a former adjunct professor at Tallahassee Community College. He is the author of five books.
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Budget standoffs are nothing new in Virginia politics, and recent years have seen a number of disagreements that extend all the way to, and sometimes even past, the deadline of the new fiscal year – beginning on July 1st.
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Lawmakers were unable to overturn a veto from the governor on a bill that might have helped school construction.
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Governor Glenn Youngkin is now facing a decision about what happens with slot-machine style machines in convenience stores and truck stops.
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All 140 members of the Virginia House of Delegates and the state Senate will be back in Richmond Wednesday. They'll take action on all the governor's amendments, including a historic number of budget amendments.
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All 140 members of the Virginia General Assembly will return to Richmond this week for a brief session to consider the governor's amendments and vetoes. One of the amendments they'll be considering involves bullying in schools.
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They're called zombie mortgages because critics say they were dead but then came back to life when predatory lenders bought them for pennies on the dollar and then tried to collect huge interest rates.
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Glenn Youngkin got the nomination to run as the Republican candidate for governor in a ranked-choice vote at a party convention. But now, he's vetoing a bill that would have clarified how the process is supposed to work in local elections.
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Last year, Governor Glenn Youngkin signed a bill that created a new Department of Workforce Development and Advancement. Now, he's signing legislation to give the new department a commissioner and collect data about jobs.
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Lawmakers are weighing the odds about how to handle the governor's amendment to their legislation allowing skill games at convenience stores and truck stops.
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Senator Tim Kaine is out with a new book this week. As Michael Pope tells us, it's not the standard Washington memoir.