Michael Pope
Virginia Public Radio ReporterMichael Pope is an author and journalist who lives in Old Town Alexandria. He has reported for NPR, the New York Times and the Alexandria Gazette Packet. He has a master's degree in American Studies from Florida State University, and he is a former adjunct professor at Tallahassee Community College. He is the author of five books.
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House Speaker Don Scott has a list of 13 Republican-held seats he wants to flip from red to blue. But the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee is spotlighting only eight of those 13 races. -
The budget reconciliation package recently passed by Congress and signed by the president rolled back many Biden-era environmental initiatives, but not Virginia's wind farm. -
Democrats and Republicans have different approaches to fighting crime. And those differences are emerging on the campaign trail. -
Changes to federal food assistance rules could have a dramatic influence here in Virginia. -
Democrats are targeting more than a dozen Republican-held seats in the Virginia House of Delegates this year. -
The Western District of Virginia stretches from Winchester through Charlottesville, Roanoke and all the way to Floyd County. And the district will likely have a new federal prosecutor soon. -
All three Republicans who are running statewide this fall appeared together for the first time Tuesday night in Northern Virginia. -
This evening in Vienna, Winsome Earle-Sears, John Reid and Jason Miyares are expected to appear together for the first time. -
Democrats and Republicans now have their candidates heading into a summertime special election to fill the seat vacated by the late Congressman Gerry Connolly.
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Jurisdictions across Virginia are closely watching a legal challenge in Arlington to a zoning change known as Missing Middle.
