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Peter Galuszka
Peter Galuszka is a veteran journalist with nearly 50 years of experience. He has written for Style Weekly, the Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Virginian-Pilot. He was executive editor of Virginia Business magazine and spent 15 years at Business Week magazine, where he reported and edited from Moscow, New York and Chicago. Contact: [email protected]
Virginia needs to get serious about ‘megasites,’ outgoing official says
By: Peter Galuszka - March 2, 2022
In 2016, the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, the state’s leading economic recruiter, was in desperate trouble. It was not vetting new corporate prospects and was shoving money and other goodies through the door, according to a scathing report by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC), a watchdog for the General Assembly. […]
New draft Virginia legislative maps released
By: Peter Galuszka - December 10, 2021
Special redistricting experts working for the Virginia Supreme Court have submitted redrawn federal and state legislative districts. The new maps for the U.S. House of Representatives, the House of Delegates and the state Senate are out for public review in advance of public hearings at the court Dec. 15 and 17. The court will consider […]
How Virginia’s new redistricting commission to stacks up to other states
By: Peter Galuszka - December 9, 2021
In the last part of the last decade, voters in Virginia and Michigan had become frustrated with how their political districts were drawn. In both states, the voting maps were set up by Republican-controlled legislatures in 2011 after a previous census. In both cases, the districts were designed to favor GOP candidates and disenfranchise minorities, […]
Political analyst and university professor chosen to redraw Virginia political districts
By: Peter Galuszka - November 19, 2021
The Virginia Supreme Court has picked Sean P. Trende and Bernard N. Grofman to serve as “special masters” who will redraw voting districts throughout the state. The decision comes after weeks of controversy concerning the failure of the new Virginia Redistricting Commission to select the two people to redraw the maps. Consequently, the decision was […]
Virginia Supreme Court rejects map drawers
By: Peter Galuszka - November 12, 2021
The Virginia State Supreme Court has rejected three “special master” candidates nominated by Republicans to help redraw Virginia’s legislative lines. The nominees, the justices said in an order this morning, will serve as officers of the court in a “quasi-judicial capacity” and therefore “must be neutral and must not act as advocates or representatives of […]
McAuliffe v. Youngkin: the numbers beneath candidates’ job, economy claims
By: Peter Galuszka - October 18, 2021
In a hotly contested gubernatorial race, few issues have been depicted in such stark contrast by the campaigns as jobs creation and Virginia’s business climate. Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who was governor from 2014 to 2018, paints himself as the jobs guy. He claims that during his term he helped create 200,000 jobs, raised personal income […]