Former and current Fairfax County Board of Supervisors chairs Sharon Bulova and Jeff McKay on Wednesday endorsed Terry McAuliffe s candidacy for governor.
McKay said in a statement that he believes McAuliffe will help the state recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
âLocal governments have experienced the brunt of this pandemic, and we need our next governor to have big and bold ideas, McKay said in a release from the McAuliffe campaign. Terry will use this pandemic as an opportunity to recover and push Virginia and our county forward. He will work with local governments and the Democratic majorities in Richmond to boldly invest in our education system, go big in our COVID recovery, and fight for equity for all.â
Editorâs note:
Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the current Virginia Constitution, which went into effect in 1971. A.E. Dick Howard, the Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law, led the revision of the modern-day Constitution. It largely repudiated the white supremacy legacy of the 1902 state Constitution.
In 1968, Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. appointed a Commission on Constitutional Revision. Howard served as the commissionâs executive director, and then was counsel to the General Assembly when it reviewed the commissionâs report. The proposed constitution went before Virginia voters in 1970, and Howard directed the successful referendum campaign. He also is the author of the two-volume âCommentaries on the Constitution of Virginia.â
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John Tyler Community College will get a new name. A task force wants community input on it.
The group unanimously recommended that not only the campuses be renamed but also buildings associated with former Byrd Machine segregationist politicians Mills Godwin and Lloyd Bird
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There will be no question that John Tyler Community College will get a new name next year. The only question now is, what will that name be?
Last month, a special task force unanimously recommended that not only the name of the 10th president of the United States be stripped from the campus because of his ties to the Confederacy, but it also wants streets on both the Chester and Midlothian campuses that commemorate him also get renamed. The force also wants new names for Bird and Godwin halls on the Chester campus since they memorialize two Virginia politicians who were cogs in the infamous anti-segregation Byrd Mac