A group of gun safety advocates has launched a billboard campaign to urge House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to support the firearm background check bill, likely to pass the Senate this week.
U. S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) spoke on the floor yesterday to urge fellow members to support the gun control bill before the Senate, which includes a portion known as the Campus Safety Act.
On Friday, the State Board of Health voted 11-2 in favor of new regulations that impose stricter building standards on clinics that provide abortions, something abortion rights advocates say will force most of Virginia’s 20 clinics to close.
Democratic State Senator Mark Herring, a candidate for Attorney General, is calling for a federal investigation into the relationships between Governor Bob McDonnell, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and the Star Scientific Corporation.
The Sierra Club will stage an Electric Slide Rally for Clean Energy this Sunday at Kanawha Plaza in protest of Dominion Virginia Power’s proposed gas powered electric facility in Brunswick County.
