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April: Port of Virigina stats May: State of the Air report, Fortune 500 June: Gross Domestic Product July: Population figures September: Forbes state rankings November: Newspaper subscriptions, America's Health Rankings December: Median Household Income, K-12 school attendance Every month: Unemployment percent |
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"List of Virginia state agencies" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect List of Virginia state agencies has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 January 21 § List of US state agencies until a consensus is reached. Squawk7700 (talk) 20:09, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
Gerrymandering Subsection
Gerrymandering in Virginia is in the news of late, and I'm considering collecting the sentences about Byrd malapportionment, the 2011 Republican-led gerrymander, the Supreme Court decisions against it, the 2020 referendum, and the latest Democratic-led efforts into their own subsection, perhaps below "Federal elections." Thoughts? North Carolina is the only other U.S. state with a gerrymandering subsection, where they do give it six paragraphs. I guess my questions would be whether it is warranted here now, whether it should wait to see the outcome of the potential referendum on April 21, or whether something like that belongs on a subarticle like Politics of Virginia instead. I'll say my idea is mostly to just reorganize the existing sentences, I wouldn't want to add too much new info, though I'd perhaps start a section like that by mentioning the first gerrymander where it was Patrick Henry's party against James Madison.-- Patrick Neil, oѺ∞/Talk 13:46, 11 February 2026 (UTC)