Despite the mountain of evidence that proves that greenhouse gas emissions are the culprit, Virginia's Republican Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin, says he has no idea what is causing climate change. He says he's just not smart enough to figure it out. The Independent [quoting Youngkin]: "I don't know what's responsible for climate change, in all candor," Youngkin said when asked by the forum's moderators about whether "the actions of mankind are responsible for climate change."

On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom easily defeated a Republican effort to recall him by about 25 percentage points. Donald Trump suggested the vote was likely "rigged," even before the ballots were counted, but given the size of the Governor's victory even the most ardent Trump supporters will probably ignore Trump's rather predictable blather. Newsom successfully made the election about his efforts to battle the Covid pandemic and Californians are as tired as anybody of the anti-

In discussing the progressive legislation that Virginia's new Democratic majority has passed, we forgot to mention a bill that would cap the co-pays that patients pay for insulin at $30 for a month's supply. This is an incredibly important change because the price of insulin has skyrocketed from "roughly $20 for a 10-millimeter vial of the drug in 1996, to as much as $290 a vial today," or more according to Elsevier’s Gold Standard Drug Database. And these price increases now

Democrats won back Virginia's statehouse last Fall after decades of Republican control, and with Gov. Ralph Northam already in office, they [finally] passed the Equal Rights Amendment and are now considering more progressive legislation. Gov. Northam, who campaigned on expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, pushed expansion through the legislature in 2018 over Republican opposition, and now about 300,000 more Virginians have affordable access to health care. This y