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Virginia ends fiscal year with $936M budget surplus
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (341+ words) (The Center Square) – Virginia ended fiscal year 2026 with a preliminary $936.3 million General Fund surplus after tax collections exceeded expectations. Preliminary accounting shows revenues grew $2.09 billion, or 6.7%, during the fiscal year, leaving the commonwealth with a surplus of nearly $1 billion above…...
Virginia's massive data center plan near Civil War battlefield collapses after final appeal dropped
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (331+ words) A years-long fight over one of the most ambitious data center projects in the country has come to an end in Virginia. The data center developer QTS officially ended its plans to build a section of the planned 2,100-acre data…...
How Virginia's plans for biggest data center in the world fell apart
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (1001+ words) Jul 09, 2026 at 06:45 AM EDT Virginia has become synonymous with data centers. Home to the world's largest concentration of facilities, the state has spent years attracting billions of dollars in investment from technology companies seeking to power cloud computing, artificial intelligence,…...
Virginia Senate approves budget after weeks of negotiation
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (425+ words) RICHMOND, Va. (WSET) — Virginia lawmakers approved a new state budget Monday after weeks of negotiations. The Senate voted 23-16 to approve Virginia’s new state budget, ending a prolonged standoff between lawmakers. During negotiations, Senate Democrats pushed to eliminate a data center…...
Virginia lawmakers approve two-year budget after months of debate over data center taxes
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (432+ words) RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia's state budget passed both the House and Senate Monday, ending a standoff over data center tax policy that had stalled negotiations for months. The two-year spending plan includes 4% raises for teachers, 3.5% raises for state employees, higher standard…...
Virginia lawmakers strike a budget deal
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (242+ words) RICHMOND — With just days to go before the commonwealth’s current budget expires, the Virginia House and Senate have reached a $185 billion budget deal that would take effect July 1. The deal includes an energy consumption fee for data centers. The budget…...
Virginia senator's Data Center Listening Tour spotlights concerns about growing industry
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (359+ words) While budget negotiators are reportedly hard at work, Virginia’s Senate President is continuing her tour of Virginia localities to hear from residents about data centers. Portsmouth Democrat and Senate President Louise Lucas is famously less than subtle, and her data…...
Virginia budget negotiations stall, again. But a backup plan emerges.
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (395+ words) RICHMOND — Democrats in the General Assembly don’t appear to be any closer to reaching a budget deal. Money committee chairs Sen. Louise Lucas of Portsmouth and Del. Luke Torian, Prince William, met Friday morning with Gov. Abigail Spanberger. “Today, the…...
‘RIP, Coach’ — Condolences Pour In As Former Virginia Tech, JMU Coach Curt Newsome Dies at 67
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (361+ words) Football, at its core, is a game of leverage, grit, and the quiet work done in the trenches. No one understood this better than Curt Newsome. When news broke that the former Virginia Tech and James Madison University offensive line…...
How Gov. Spanberger Betrayed Virginia’s Workers
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (221+ words) Exactly one year and six days ago, the Prospect posted a piece I’d just written about Colorado’s Jared Polis, under the headline “The Democrats’ One and Only Union-Busting Governor.” But Polis no longer holds that “one and only” status when…...