Politics (35)
By Leonard E. Colvin
Chief Reporter
New Journal and Guide
The plaintiffs in a suit calling for the abolition of the at-large election of the mayoral position in Norfolk have persuaded the U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C. to transfer the case to the federal district court in the Eastern Region of Virginia.
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Granby High School is the site on Saturday, April 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for a caucus where Norfolk Democrats will gather to select candidates to run for Sheriff and Treasurer. The deadline for filing petitions to participate was April 18.
By Randy Singleton
Community Affairs Correspondent
New Journal and Guide
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Terry McAuliffe, Democratic nominee for Virginia governor, spoke to more than 700 delegates – mostly teachers and support personnel at the Virginia Education Association (VEA) Gubernatorial Candidate Forum in Hampton on Wednesday (April 11). Mr. McAuliffe explained his views on public education and answered questions from the audience. Following his speech, Mr. McAuliffe took a moment to engage in some “straight-talk” with the New Journal and Guide about the education of minority youth:
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Congressman James E. Clyburn of South Carolina will be the keynote speaker for Tidewater Community College’s 2013 Black History Month celebration on Monday, February 11, beginning at 6 p.m.
This event is co-sponsored by the Urban League of Hampton Roads, 200 Plus Men of Hampton Roads and Omega Psi Phi fraternity. “An Evening with Congressman Clyburn” will be held at the Roper Performing Arts Center, 340 Granby Street, in Norfolk.
By Rosaland Tyler
Associate Editor
New Journal and Guide
It is unclear if the script from the Reconstruction era is making a comeback, escaping notice, or just being recycled.
But recent news reports and Civil War history books show similarities between the Reconstruction and Obama eras. A chain of events sounds like a TV rerun. For example, residents in more than 30 states have filed secession petitions on the White House website. Meanwhile on the King holiday during the Presidential inauguration, lawmakers in Richmond introduced legislation that would change the Electoral College process. If the legislation had existed during the 2012 election, it would have given Obama only four votes to nine for Republican nominee Mitt Romney, despite Obama’s solid popular vote victory.
By Leonard E. Colvin
Chief Reporter
New Journal and Guide
For twenty of her 25-year tenure in the Virginia Senate, the late Senator Yvonne B. Miller wrote and supported bills to restore the voting rights, specifically, of felons who had served their time and paid their monetary debts to society.
Until her death last July, Miller and other members of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus sought fervently but unsuccessfully to convince a majority of their Democratic and Republicans colleagues to support the measure.
By Leonard E. Colvin
Chief Reporter
New Journal and Guide
Starting on January 9, Daun Hester began her second act in politics when she joined the other 100 members of the House of Delegates for the 2013 session of the Virginia General Assembly.
Hester was sworn in as the newest representative of the House’s 89th District on December 20 after winning a special election to replace Kenneth Alexander who moved to the Senate to represent the Fifth Senate Distract vacated when Yvonne Miller passed away last summer.
Bloomberg Business speculates with an image from an upcoming cover.
After an anticipated fight with the Republican-led House, Obama may grow a few more gray hairs.
This morning, former governor and U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton, cast their ballots at the Hermitage Methodist Home in Richmond.
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By Leonard E. Colvin
Chief Reporter
New Journal and Guide
When Virginia voters go to the polls next week, there will be two proposed amendments to the state’s Constitution. While the Virginia Board of Elections is required to inform voters of these amendments in advance through paid print advertising, it has been complying through select white-owned daily media only until this week after being challenged by Publisher Ray Boone of the Richmond Free Press, a Black-owned weekly newspaper.