By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Virginia home-schoolers want the opportunity to represent their towns on the sports field, and supporters of the “Tim Tebow bill” say paying taxes to the school district should make home-schooled students eligible to play.

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Delegate Joe Morrissey, D-Henrico County, called a Republican adoption policy proposal “highly discriminatory, mean and cruel.”

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Delegate Kathy Byron, R-Lynchburg, plunged the General Assembly into the murky issue of human papillomavirus, or HPV, on Tuesday, with a proposal that would cut off taxpayer subsidies of vaccines against HPV, a virus associated with genital warts and cervical cancer.

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Ask Delegate Bob Marshall, R-Prince William, about the origins of his zeal for anti-abortion legislation, and he will take you back to the Napoleonic Code — the law governing France in the early 1800s.

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Progressives and conservatives agree on few things in Virginia politics, but both have placed ending the tax credits, which cost the commonwealth billions of dollars in lost revenue, high on their agenda for 2012.

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Parents of children who are struggling in some of Virginia’s most troubled public schools could get more choices, if Republicans win tax breaks for companies that make donations for low-income students to attend private institutions.

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — As Virginia lawmakers seek a long-term funding fix to the state's crumbling road system, former Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety Delegate Vivian Watts, D-Fairfax, on Tuesday tried to steer them toward an increase to the gas tax. Watts has proposed raising the 17.5 percent gas tax [...]

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — The Republican-controlled General Assembly may make it legal to carry concealed weapons without a permit, even though gun owners support the current law.   Virginia law requires a permit for concealed carry, but a measure proposed by State Del. Mark Cole, R-Spotsylvania, would eliminate the permit requirement, making it legal for [...]

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News   RICHMOND — As Virginia Republicans grabbed the reins in the state Senate on Wednesday, a coalition of progressive interest groups geared up to fight against expected conservative policy shifts. "There is obviously a different makeup of the General Assembly this year, and I think everybody here recognizes [...]