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Labor issues are on the ballot this year as voters select candidates for the statewide offices.

Four Republican incumbents will be facing the same Democratic challengers as the last election cycle.

“Politics comes at you fast, so if you’re making election law changes based on short-term interests, you might end up screwing yourself,” Senator Schuyler VanValkenburg told Radio IQ.

The towns voted to stop adding fluoride to their water supply, citing cost savings between $10,000 and $20,000 each year.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger is spending about nine times as much money on digital ads and emails as her opponent in the campaign for governor. That's according to the latest campaign finance numbers posted to the Virginia Public Access Project.

All 100 seats of the Virginia House of Delegates will be on the ballot this year, although only a dozen or so are competitive. Three of the most competitive races are rematches between the same candidates that ran in the last election cycle.

The latest campaign finance numbers show one statewide candidate has raised more money than anybody else. And it's not a candidate for governor...

Another Virginia university is in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. Michael Pope and Radio IQ Politics Analyst Jeff Schapiro discuss that and the week that was in state politics and government.

The paper is titled High Hurdles, and it concludes that despite receiving less valuable committee seats, women lawmakers often outperform their male colleagues.

“What we’re seeing is economic factors around competitiveness that are putting us at a disadvantage,” Martin Johnson with Virginia Realtors said after a meeting of the Virginia Housing Commission.