Bold Dominion

For five months, we've known that to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, we need to stay at home. But how can Virginians stay at home if those homes are taken away? With no end to the crisis in sight, thousands of Virginia citizens are facing evictions from their homes. …

“The Virginia Way” is an old-fashioned ideal here in the Commonwealth--the notion that our public servants have so much integrity that we don’t need laws to regulate money that goes into the political process. As a result, we have almost no campaign finance regulation--a fact that's been exploited by aristocrats and corporations for decades, if not…

For the last six years, Dominion Energy has been working to build a natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Hampton Roads. But just a few weeks after winning a Supreme Court case to regain permits for the project, the pipeline was cancelled--leaving Dominion is out more than three billion dollars already spent. …

Facebook ads, Twitter bots, TikTok teens—over the last decade, social media has played an increasingly important role in our social and political discourse. This week, we continue our conversation with UVA Media Studies Professor Siva Vaidyanathan to discuss the way social media algorithms can unintentionally help organize radical groups and why social…

It’s been a tumultuous month across the country and across the world—that’s no secret. Today, we’re talking to Chelsea Higgs Wise, a longtime activist in the Richmond community, about recent protests in the state capital; Black Lives Matter, the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue, and the work that still needs to be done to achieve equality in Virginia. …

Both Virginia's 7th and 2nd U.S. House districts voted for Trump in 2016. But then two years later, they flipped in the midterm elections. Democrats Abigail Spanberger in the 7th and Elaine Luria in the 2nd both won by razor thin margins. This fall, these first-term lawmakers will face their yet-to-be-determined Republican challengers. …

With all the news of the pandemic going on, it's easy to forget that we have elections coming up quite soon.

This episode looks at Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, a huge, gerrymandered region that stretches from the North Carolina border to the Washington, DC exurbs. …

Well, we’re in May now. It’s been a month and a half since everything started closing and authorities urged social distancing.

But work hasn’t stopped for people working in essential industries – health care, of course. …

The General Assembly has arrived back in Richmond for a highly unusual special session.

The task at hand: figure out Virginia’s state budget during this pandemic related economic seizure. Also: sort out the bills that Governor Ralph Northam sent back for revisions.

What now for Virginia's budget and minimum wage hikes?

In this episode of Bold Dominion: the economy has run full speed into a brick wall. And that wall is called COVID-19.

We’re still in a public health crisis that has yet to peak. And while we’re all practicing social distancing as best we can, this pandemic has created an immediate economic…