“A district like this may very well determine which party is in the majority after 2023,” said Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington.

Danica Roem seeks Virginia Senate seat (NPR)

Stephen Farnsworth at the University of Mary Washington says early voting is especially useful for a summertime primary.

Thanks to Virginia’s long early voting period, polls are already open in Virginia primaries (WVTF)

“The recreational marijuana industry is the wild, wild West right now,” said Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington.

Small Cannabis Entrepreneurs Say They Can’t Compete Against ‘Walmart of Weed’ (RVA Magazine)

Stephen Farnsworth, a University of Mary Washington political scientist, said Virginia is feeling the same shock waves that have hit national politics. “One of the aftereffects of the Trump presidency has been greater willingness to abandon what had been political norms,” Farnsworth said. “To pick and choose which school boards and which elected officials you want to punish by shortening their terms, why that’s fundamentally a violation of the way this process works.”

Youngkin’s move to force Loudoun school board elections called ‘troubling’ (The Washington Post)

“You can almost think of the presidency as a no-win proposition,” said Stephen Farnsworth, the director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. “Presidents have a great deal of support on their side of the partisan divide and almost none on the other side of the political divide.”

Amid rising pressures and a political divide, Biden’s centric views might be a bad omen for a second term (The Globe and Mail)

Stephen J. Farnsworth, a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington, said that “there is no indication” that the two chambers are very close to reaching an agreement on the budget. “My guess is that there will be another one-day session, maybe in May or June, to keep the government operating after June 30,” he said.

General Assembly reconvenes for veto session (Cardinal News)