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Governor Delivers State of the Commonwealth Address in Richmond
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Governor Northam delivered his State of the Commonwealth address on Wednesday and showed that the state is stronger than ever, and signaled the government’s ambitions to continue growing.
The governor addressed successes of the past year and proposed a budget for the current year. In his address, he noted the state’s goals for the economy, healthcare, the environment, guns, and the justice system.
In attendance was Hampton Roads Community Action Program Head Start Directory Shikee Franklin.
A summation of the governor’s closing remarks:
From The State of the Commonwealth
- Unemployment rate falls even lower, to 2.6%, compared to the national average of 3.5
- Modernizing Norfolk's Port of Virginia, making it the deepest on the East Coast
- Expanding the Hampton Roads Bay-Bridge Tunnel
- Expanded Medicaid in Virginia, covering an extra 375,000 people
- Signed the country’s largest contract to buy renewable energy to power state government
Budget Proposals
- Expanding broadband
- A comprehensive plan for early childhood education
- G3 financial aid program—"Get skilled, get a job, give back"
- Increasing tuition assistance grants
- Triple the Virginia Housing Trust Program
- Healthcare equity budget
- State-run healthcare marketplace, re-insurance program, and ending laws that restrict a woman’s right to direct her own health care
- During his term to have 3,000 megawatts of solar and wind energy, and up to 2,500 megawatts from off-shore wind soon after.
- To have 30 percent of Virginia’s electricity come from renewable sources in this next decade, and to make it 100 percent carbon-free by 2050
- Replacing old diesel school buses with new electric ones
- Creating a new office of offshore wind, $40 million to upgrade the Portsmouth Marine Terminal to prepare for wind turbine production in Hampton Roads
- Tripling our current investment in land preservation, including major new clean-water funding
- Over $400 million invested to ensure clean water
- Create a permanent Environmental Justice Council.
- We will pass comprehensive protections in employment, housing, and public accommodations for LGBTQ people
- Making absentee voting easier, making election day a state holiday
- Letting Localities decide what to do with the Confederate monuments in their community. They know the right thing to do.
- De-criminalizing marijuana possession and clearing the records of people sentenced for it
- Eight common-sense measures to keep dangerous persons away from firearms
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