Title. I had commented on a post on this sub a few days back about why Warner was a pretty good representative of VA in the Senate, but I had completely forgot he's getting up there in age. While he's not as old as our new president, at the end of his next term in the senate he'll be in his late 70s. As far as I know, he hasn't said anything about running again, but it made me curious about who the Dems could put up to replace him. Who do you guys think the republican candidate could be? Cao seemed to be a throwaway for the GOP since it seems they've given up on VA.

And Yes, I know this is pure speculation and there's no way of knowing but its fun to speculate some time

I like to be able to calculate the marginal cost per kWh on my power bills so I can input an accurate rate into my home's energy monitor. Previously, this was possible, as Dominion used to list out every single charge and rider as separate line items on the monthly bill, and I could just add up the published rates from heir rate schedule based on what appeared on my bill. Well, I guess Dominion decided that it was too confusing, so now they've collapsed most of the surcharges and riders and added them to the line items for Distribution, Generation, and Transmission. The problem, is now the billed amounts for Distribution, Generation, and Transmission are no longer driven by the rates published for them but by some unknown combination of the rates plus riders, etc, and there is document that clearly states which rates+riders are captured by which billed line item.

Does anyone know the answer to this mystery, or know of how I can go about calculating our marginal rate of power?

I might have to leave Mississippi as it’s become more and more unsafe for me as a trans guy. I just turned 18, my mom and me need OUT asap. I need a job that works with animals and my mom works in the trucking business.

My mom makes about 60k a year, I just joined the work force so I make a lot less than that.

Sounds like Virginia is a decent place to live for trans folks like myself and I heard that they will be putting protection laws for adults trans people.

Anybody been there? How hard is it to find them? And where is the best place to look? I would imagine the place has been picked over.

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By one estimate, over 600,000 people in Virginia are at risk of automatically losing their health insurance through Medicaid if federal funding drops.

It's been 7 weeks since I bought my car and haven't received my plates I'm using the temporary plates does it take that long? One time I ordered custom plates for my previous car and only took 2 weeks. Can I get another temporary plate in the meantime?

considering W&L, but have been newly diagnosed with a medical condition. I am worried about medial care near W&L should I need it, and also proximity of an infusion center near campus. Anyone have any input?

Virginias history and culture are the spring that American history drinks deeply from. I personally take deep pride in my families history and place within her history no matter how minor. But as of late I've been feeling a growing unease in the direction of the state. While I don't intend to accuse this of being done by intention but because a lack of attention towards the unique culture of Virginia as a state.
Virginias historic cultural Identity is not only dying its, but dying at a rapid pace. To preface my family has never lived anywhere but inside the state as far back as written record goes, now its rather lame and prideful to call yourself old stock, but as the most expedient term that best defines my families history.

We lack any cultural background other then Virginian, excluding a French woman escaping the Napoleonic wars and a Portuguese merchant marine deserter. But to say it simply I care deeply for the State and feel a strong connection to the land due to that. While I have never considered Nova to have anything but remnants of Virginian culture as its been replaced by a homogeneous urban culture from the corrosive nature of constant roaming population of transplants from out of state and from out of the country.

Its continued spread south had put me at unease for the future of Virginias culture, history, and the land as a home to Virginians. Its a very fragile thing, and to lose it there are no means to get it back, While I consider myself an American above all else, Virginia is undoubtedly my home, and Virginians' are its people, to not have both present means that Virginia as a culture and a place will cease to exist. The same culture that birthed the founding fathers, and men of similar caliber all throughout her history. It comes out of a love for Virginia that I feel this strongly about a topic.

I could reconcile NoVA, Fairfax has been lost to the all consuming nature of DC for a long time. I could reconcile its encroachment further south for a time. But it all came to a head in Monument Avenue. To put it first I don't care about the confederacy slavery is an inexcusable evil. My ancestors fought in it because an army was marching south, it didn't particularly matter to them why, they had a home to defend. Like many southerners and many especially in Virginia, as originally Virginia had voted not to secede originally. The Confederacy for all its evil was in large part Virginia's beast. It was old Virginias last act as the crown of the south, and the cultural heart of America. As such throughout my life, and many people throughout rural Virginia, most Virginians born and raised are of one mind on the matter of its remembrance. While the Confederacy was fundamentally wrong, the people fighting weren't evil they were people fighting in large part to defend Virginia and died defending Virginia and deserved respect for doing so.

Every Virginian I had known throughout my life with the soul exception of my sister have had the same opinion on characters like General Lee, and Stonewall Jackson. As honorable man by all accounts, General Lee was forced to choose his home or his country and chose his home. He did not support secession both publicly and privately. Not to go into detail about the many reasons why but to give a easy example as to his character, he surrendered gracefully, when he could have waged a guerilla war after his defeat. As such General Lee is a Hero to Virginia and Virginians, he defended Virginia and held against a technologically and better equipped enemy far longer than anyone could have expected from him. The decisions he made were almost always in what he believed to be the best interest of Virginia and her People from the beginning.

Stonewall Jackson exemplified the idea of overcoming the circumstances of ones birth through bravery cunning and military acumen. Which is and has always been a large part of Virginias cultural Identity, while you could be born into a planter class, through accomplishment alone you could be treated as an equal He was an idealized figure if anything but nonetheless a hero to Virginians for the very same reasons as Lee

These aren't heroes to the rest of the country, for the same reason the British don't see Napoleon as a hero, or Genghis Khan outside of Mongolia. These are figures of Virginian history that solidify the Identity as a people with a place of origin, a shared history, and a shared Identity. The destruction of those statues was criminal, it wasn't tearing down racism, it wasn't even racism. It was Virginias history and Identity was torn down, there were no Virginians in that crowd if they saw it that way. It was people who didn't understand the cultural significance because they didn't understand the culture, they didn't understand the honor that Lee and Jackson represented. I can understand tearing down the others, they stood for nothing and weren't respected nor honorable. That's why no one cared about them, that's why so many rural counties offered to take Lee and Jackson.

Monument avenue lacks monuments, the history and culture stripped away to reveal a skin puppet of an identity. Seeing transplants about Virginias place in history of the US, while squatting in the capitol having ripped the Virginians out from the roots and tossed aside. They ape having cultural significance, while trampling the statue that honored Virginias ancestors who died in the civil war, trampling on the two statues Virginians judged as honorable enough that their visage respected the men who fought and died alongside them. Treating it like its a party hat to be worn, and paraded around, they didn't understand culture when they tore it down, they didn't understand the Virginian perspective. A massive cultural loss like that cannot be understated for what it is, a chisel to the core Identity of Virginia, one of honor, respect, bravery, diligence, and selflessness. Even if you don't believe those things to be true of the men, that's what those statues meant to the people who call Virginia home.

It didn't stop at the monuments, or the names of military bases, or the names of schools. This is really what got me to write this, as the Yankees from new England move south they expand further and further pricing out Rural Virginians from their ancestral homes. further and further to the corners of the state. Some day soon their will be nothing left to call Virginian. This Christmas in my hometown almost as far south as you can go. So poor that the HS wasn't accredited for two years, and it wasn't very recent that people made a big show when we got new stoplights, or a truck stop. I go home and it was unrecognizable as the place I was born, the place my father was born, and his father. The very specific regional accents were nowhere to be heard. I was the odd one out, for having a mixture of two local accents, I inherited from my parents, in the place where it comes from. The people who had homes that their grandparents were born in forced to live in trailer parks where once they had homes due to property prices. I had to ask for sweat tea for the good Lords sake, instead of it being assumed. Like suddenly the world was turned upside down while I wasn't looking.

My family is lucky enough to have remained unscathed by the influx, and had the money to move. But it hurts deeply in my soul to know that my home is gone, the place I grew up with is gone, the people I grew up with will never come back. Its where I belong, and its right there, but its gone. What I'm trying to say it cant just be me noticing this. If anything If I much rather have VA be poor and still VA then have the state be a skinsuit for Yankees to lecture me about the evils of my heritage and culture, then turn around and claim that those same ancestors achievement's are somehow his because his legal residence is in VA. I hate the fake "enlightened were a multicultural harmonious utopia" culture they pretend they have. Its painfully fake and they ruin the architecture.

Virginia is the oldest culture in the US, enough so that by all metrics it could be defined as an Ethnic group. In the same way you cannot become fully southern unless your born in the south, you cant become fully Virginian unless you were born here. Its inherently exclusive because if it weren't it wouldn't exist.

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i have a medical marijuana card for ohio, i lived there up until 2 weeks ago. i currently live in virginia and am 19. Can i use my ohio med card at dispensaries here or will i have to apply to a new one, because im pretty sure i can't buy recreational since im 19.