Lots of ground to cover with the news, so let’s try some giddyap and go:

From the standpoint of statewide politics, it’s pretty obvious who came away on Election Day as Virginia’s big winners.

Weeks ago, back when the promise of stirring victory or crushing disappointment hung in the air in equal measure, the audience at the School Board’s October meeting at Sydnor Jennings Elementary heard two theories on how the vote on the 1 percent sales tax referendum might turn out.

Let’s imagine a world where the sales tax referendum fails.

We’re a year out from the 2020 election and voters deciding for themselves who should lead the United States over the next four years, but in the meantime it’s getting pretty hard to ignore that our current Commander-in-Chief is losing it on a daily basis.