This afternoon, the Virginia Senate approved Senator Rosalyn Dance’s (D-Petersburg) SB 1017, the Ban the Box bill, which would prevent state agencies from incorporating a check box on application ...

PETERSBURG, Va. -- State Senator Rosalyn Dance, in a recorded phone conversation with Petersburg mayor Howard Myers, advised, scolded, and threatened him over recent utility and city management ...

Joe Morrissey, a former member of the House of Delegates and a controversial figure in local politics for decades, knocked off Sen. Rosalyn Dance, D-Petersburg, Tuesday in a primary fight for the ...

Del. Joseph E. Preston, D-63rd, has served in the House of Delegates for less than three months, but he is already seeking a promotion to the state Senate. The attorney from Petersburg announced ...

The Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology voted 9-6 on Monday to report a bill from Sen. Rosalyn Dance (D-Petersburg) to “ban the box” in most state employment decisions. Two Republicans ...

Evandra D. Thompson, who is challenging Del. Rosalyn R. Dance, D-Petersburg, in the Democratic primary in June, has picked up more support from party leaders in the 63rd District, including former ...

The Democratic Party of Virginia held an unassembled caucus today to determine its candidate for the special State Senate election to be held on November 4, 2014 to fill the remaining term of former ...

Preston announced Monday that he was challenging Dance in the June 9 Democratic primary. In a phone interview Tuesday, he said revenge isn’t his motive and that he won’t “admit or deny anything” ...

Little did anyone know on Jan. 1 that this year would reaffirm Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” The year 2020 has brought a wide range of major events including a global ...

Former Del. Joe Morrissey is raising Virginia’s refusal to expand Medicaid as a key issue in his bid to unseat state Sen. Rosalyn Dance, D-Petersburg. At the announcement of his candidacy last month, ...

I voted Saturday in the Democratic primary for the state 16th Senatorial District in Ettrick. I was asked by a reporter from The Progress-Index, "May I ask who you voted for?" I proudly responded, ...

This morning, Senator Rosalyn Dance’s (D-Petersburg) “ban the box” bill, SB 1171, passed the Virginia Senate on a 22-17 vote. The bill proposes to “ban the box” – a measure to remove questions ...