TOMMY WRIGHT
Tommy Wright: Put down those phones
Virginia students might be in for a new adjustment when they attend schools. House Bill 882 came before the education committee and requires the Board ...
Virginia students might be in for a new adjustment when they attend schools. House Bill 882 came before the education committee and requires the Board ...
Wednesday, Jan. 10 was the opening day of the 2024 Virginia General Assembly Session, and we’re going to hear from both Governor Youngkin and House ...
It’s almost time. The 2024 General Assembly Session opens on Wednesday, January 10th at noon. While we won’t get rolling for more than 72 hours, ...
As we enter the final weeks of 2023, the political year is winding down as well. Governor Youngkin is scheduled to present his proposed budget ...
New laws went into effect in our commonwealth on July 1. During the 2023 General Assembly Session, House Republicans continued to fight to lower costs ...
You can’t spin numbers like this: after a full year of Democratic-imposed pro-criminal legislation, crime is up significantly, and Virginia is a more dangerous place ...
The Virginia General Assembly passed legislation in the 2023 session that will provide relief for Virginia Veterans. While only a “stopgap” budget has been approved ...
As Speaker Gilbert wrote last week, there is a silent killer terrorizing Virginia, taking an average of 35 lives every week. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid ...
Parents matter. That was one of our major themes in 2021, and it looks like it’s going to be a major theme in 2023 as ...
Last week Governor Youngkin’s team made it known that they were returning to the Warner-Kaine model of felon rights restoration and Virginia Democrats immediately cried ...
When Republicans were given the majority in 2021, Virginians did so with the expectation that we would keep our promises to make their neighborhoods safer, ...
The 2023 regular session of the Virginia General Assembly adjourned sine die on Saturday, February 25. Saturday’s adjournment of sine die was expected, but a four-page ...
Democrats wanted to end 2022 on a high note, attacking two of Governor Youngkin’s major policy initiatives — removing Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas ...
Earlier this month, the Commonwealth agreed to a limited settlement that will end a lawsuit brought by the parents of 12 seriously ill children challenging ...
“A stunning lack of transparency.” “They failed at every juncture.” It’s hard to understate just how damning the Special Grand Jury Report on the Loudoun ...
The Virginia General Assembly is gearing up for its 2023 legislative session. We celebrated Veterans Day Nov. 11. I wanted to share accomplishments we made ...
We never know when tragedy will touch our communities. One week after the senseless murder of three University of Virginia football players, a long-time manager ...
There’s no question, the midterm elections did not go the way we thought they would. Many close races broke toward Democrats. Nonetheless, Republicans are back ...
The National Assessment of Educational Progress for 2022 is in, and for the Commonwealth, it is an unmitigated disaster. Also known as “The Nation’s Report ...
Earlier this week, an advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted 15-0 to add the COVID vaccine to the Federal government’s ...
Democrats and other left-wing activists continue to push back against the Department of Education’s new, common-sense model policies for systems regarding transgender students. Several systems ...
The Department of Education released their 2022-23 School Accreditation summary last week, and on the surface, the results weren’t that bad. Unfortunately, when you look ...
Recently, Governor Youngkin began the process of changing policy to remove Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Republicans made some significant promises on the ...
The damage to our students from school closures and remote learning during the COVID pandemic is worse than we realized. The Department of Education released ...
Last week’s inflation report was pretty much what we expected, as prices were more than 8% higher year over year. Biden told America’s inflation was ...
Democrats in Washington have finally flailed their way to a political win, passing the poorly named “Inflation Reduction Act.” Aimed at reducing inflation and slowing ...
School is approaching and parents are ready to send their children back for another learning year. When I began knocking on doors around my district ...