Candidates for the Manassas Park mayor and Governing Body will be held Sunday, October 18, from 3 to 5 p.m, in the Banquet Room at the Manassas Park Community Center.
All candidates will are scheduled to attend. The questions will come from the residents in the audience.
A recent poll finds Virginia voters strongly support police reform and nearly half of respondents say Joe Biden would handle the pandemic better than President Donald Trump.
The Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University released the poll Sept. 29 following a poll earlier that month which found Biden is leading Trump by 5 points among the state’s likely voters.
Northern Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly (D, 11-Fairfax, Prince William) wants George Mason University to rename its Antonin Scalia Law School.
Connolly pens in a statement:
He’s been politically active in numerous parts of the city for decades but has never run for office.
He’ll probably never do it again, he says.
Republican 1st District Rep. Rob Wittman and Democratic challenger Qasim Rashid exchanged barbs on numerous occasions Monday night during an hourlong virtual debate, hosted and organized by the University of Mary Washington.
Early voting is underway across the state, and in our region, thousands have already went to the polls to cast their ballots.
In Prince William County, nearly 3,300 people cast their ballots over Friday and Saturday, September 18 and 19, respectively. The county’s office of elections has polling places set up at
A poll released this week by the Virginia Commonwealth University L. Douglas Wilder School of Government shows presidential candidate Joe Biden and U.S. Sen. Mark Warner leading by double-digit margins in the commonwealth.
The Richmond-based university conducted a telephone poll of just over 800 adults from Aug. 28 to Sept. 7. The results show Democratic nominee Biden ahead of President Donald Trump by 14 percentage points (53% to 39%).
Long lines are expected to form outside polling places on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. That’s when voters across our area will not only cast their ballot for President, but also for U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
In our area, Incumbent Senator Mark Warner (D) is looking to fend off a challenge from Daniel Gade (R) for a Virginia Senate seat. In the House of Representatives, locally, we have these races:
Prince William County is watching multiple bills in the General Assembly that its legal consultant says could have an adverse impact on law enforcement and taxpayers.
The first is a bill that would allow anyone who feels like a police officer has deprived them of their rights the ability to sue the police officer and the jurisdiction in which the officer is employed. The bill by Delegate Jeffery Bourne (D-Richmond) passed the House of Delegates with a 49-45 vote with three abstentions and is expected to now go to the Senate.
Boaters on the Potomac River spent the Labor Day weekend rallying for President Donald Trump.
On Saturday, September 6, boaters took their “Trump flotilla” to the Aquia Bay in Stafford County, at the confluence of the Aquia Creek and Potomac River. The rally began at 10 a.m. at Hope Springs Marina.
