By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Child-placement agencies, such as Lutheran Family Services and Catholic Family Services, are asking Virginia lawmakers to ensure adoption workers can use religious and moral discretion when placing children.

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Virginia’s crumbling roads will force lawmakers into “uncharted territory” this spring, as they divvy up taxpayer dollars to develop a budget, a political science professor predicted Wednesday.

  By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Critics of legislation that would tighten Virginia's drunken driving laws say the planwill do little to make the state's roads safer.

By Carten Cordell | Virginia Statehouse News ALEXANDRIA — Delegate Bob Marshall's attempt to prohibit the use of foreign law in Virginia court decisions is drawing the ire of at least some religious and civil liberties groups.

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Construction worker Jerry Blow Sr., 53, of Richmond, hollered Monday morning at passers-by, as they entered the General Assembly Building.

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — In 1989, Douglas Wilder campaigned for Virginia governor with a promise to crack down on gun violence.

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 — Ask Virginia House Minority Leader David Toscano, D-Charlottesville, what to expect from the state’s conservative leaders, and he’ll say: “Not only a slew of misplaced priorities, but a classic bait and switch.”

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 [...]

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — If Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell wants a more prominent role in national politics, he might fare best if Democrats rule the state Senate.