We’re halfway there with two key events in our legislative calendar: (1) Passing the date known as “Crossover,” and (2) voting on the House version of the two-year Virginia state budget!

idX Corporation, supplier of global solutions for retail environments, will invest $7.2 million to establish its Virginia manufacturing operation in Spotsylvania County and will create 150 new jobs in the process.

Virginia consumers will be receiving $15.335 million in restitution and debt relief as part of a settlement to resolve claims that CashCall, Inc. and its president and CEO J. Paul Reddam illegally deceived borrowers and collected illegal interest of up to 230% on online loans made in amounts of between $700 and $10,000, according to the Virginia Attorney General's office.

Cassidy Rasnick has been appointed Deputy Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry for Virginia, according to a blog report from the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation.

Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative is accepting applications until Feb. 17 from area high school and home-school students for five slots for the annual National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) Youth Tour of the nation's capital, June 11-15, 2017, to see government in action.

If you have a condition such as diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure, heart disease, chronic pain, anxiety, obesity, depression, pain or other chronic condition, the You Can! Live Well, Virginia Workshop series can help you take charge of your life. This free Chronic Disease Self Management Program is a workshop series given 2.5 hours, once a week, for six weeks, at one of four locations in the Manassas and Woodbridge areas.

Del. Marshall reports that his HB 1612, to protect personal privacy in showers, locker rooms, changing areas and bathrooms in our schools and government buildings, was killed on a voice vote Jan. 20 in Subcommittee #4 of the General Laws Committee.

Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium (VNEC) testified Jan. 19 in support of legislation under consideration in the Virginia House of Delegates that would explicitly allow investor-owned utilities to recover costs associated with relicensing and extending the life of nuclear facilities.