Category Archives: O’Connor & Company Interviews

Hogan on Latest Legislative Session “Our Best Session Yet”

Hogan on Latest Legislative Session “Our Best Session Yet”

Governor Hogan held a press conference on Monday to discuss the end of the 2022 legislative session that adjourned at the end of last week. The governor appeared optimistic and enthused by his administrations accomplishments in what will be the final legislative session of his tenure as Maryland governor.Read more

Virginia Democrats Propose Gas Rebates in Lieu of Suspending Gas Tax

Virginia Democrats Propose Gas Rebates in Lieu of Suspending Gas Tax

Democrats in the Virginia House of Delegates are once again rejecting a plan proposed by Governor Youngkin to suspend the state’s gas tax during a time when prices at the pump continue to soar. The democratic caucus in the House has proposed rebates of $50 per car or up to $100 per household as an alternative to the governor’s plan.Read more

Governor Youngkin Donates Q1 Salary to State Law Enforcement Assistance Program

Governor Youngkin Donates Q1 Salary to State Law Enforcement Assistance Program

After it was announced that former Vice President Mike Pence had been scheduled to speak on the University of Virginia campus the school’s paper published a scathing piece calling for administrators to ban the speech. In response to the publication, faculty members are stepping up and calling the paper’s attempt at censorship ‘simply wrong’.Read more

Disney Set to Hire Former Clinton Staffer as Next Spokesperson

Disney Set to Hire Former Clinton Staffer as Next Spokesperson

Disney is currently going into damage control mode following their nationally covered debate with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over the Parental Rights in Education bill he signed into law last month. In an effort to further communicate their position, Disney has announced the hiring of former Clinton and Obama staffer Kristine Schake as the company’s new Executive Vice President of Global Communications.Read more

STUDY: Loudoun County Explores Replacing Sheriff’s Office with Police Department

STUDY: Loudoun County Explores Replacing Sheriff’s Office with Police Department

Tuesday night, the public got their first review of a new study on what would involved in transitioning the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office into a police department. The meeting held last night by county supervisors served as the official release of study conducted over the past year by the International Association of Chiefs of Police.Read more

Governor Hogan on New Congressional Map: “Tremendous Victory For Democracy”

Governor Hogan on New Congressional Map: “Tremendous Victory For Democracy”

After failed attempts by democrat lawmakers to maintain the state’s gerrymandered congressional map, Governor Larry Hogan enacted a new congressional map for the state of Maryland earlier this week. The new map was the result of a Maryland Judge dismissing the democrat legislatures map and referring to it as “extreme gerrymandering”.Read more

Maryland State Senator on Democrat’s New Congressional Map “it’s Lipstick on a Pig”

Maryland State Senator on Democrat’s New Congressional Map “it’s Lipstick on a Pig”

Five days after a county judge struck down the democrats proposed congressional map the Maryland General Assembly passed a new map without the support of their republican colleagues. Maryland State Senator Michael Hough (R-Frederick & Carroll County) joined O’Connor & Company this morning to discuss how the new map remains a gerrymandered mess created to keep democrats in power statewide.Read more

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Category Archives: O’Connor & Company Interviews

Hogan on Latest Legislative Session “Our Best Session Yet”

Hogan on Latest Legislative Session “Our Best Session Yet”

Governor Hogan held a press conference on Monday to discuss the end of the 2022 legislative session that adjourned at the end of last week. The governor appeared optimistic and enthused by his administrations accomplishments in what will be the final legislative session of his tenure as Maryland governor.Continue Reading

Virginia Democrats Propose Gas Rebates in Lieu of Suspending Gas Tax

Virginia Democrats Propose Gas Rebates in Lieu of Suspending Gas Tax

Democrats in the Virginia House of Delegates are once again rejecting a plan proposed by Governor Youngkin to suspend the state’s gas tax during a time when prices at the pump continue to soar. The democratic caucus in the House has proposed rebates of $50 per car or up to $100 per household as an alternative to the governor’s plan.Continue Reading

Governor Youngkin Donates Q1 Salary to State Law Enforcement Assistance Program

Governor Youngkin Donates Q1 Salary to State Law Enforcement Assistance Program

After it was announced that former Vice President Mike Pence had been scheduled to speak on the University of Virginia campus the school’s paper published a scathing piece calling for administrators to ban the speech. In response to the publication, faculty members are stepping up and calling the paper’s attempt at censorship ‘simply wrong’.Continue Reading

Disney Set to Hire Former Clinton Staffer as Next Spokesperson

Disney Set to Hire Former Clinton Staffer as Next Spokesperson

Disney is currently going into damage control mode following their nationally covered debate with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over the Parental Rights in Education bill he signed into law last month. In an effort to further communicate their position, Disney has announced the hiring of former Clinton and Obama staffer Kristine Schake as the company’s new Executive Vice President of Global Communications.Continue Reading

STUDY: Loudoun County Explores Replacing Sheriff’s Office with Police Department

STUDY: Loudoun County Explores Replacing Sheriff’s Office with Police Department

Tuesday night, the public got their first review of a new study on what would involved in transitioning the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office into a police department. The meeting held last night by county supervisors served as the official release of study conducted over the past year by the International Association of Chiefs of Police.Continue Reading

Governor Hogan on New Congressional Map: “Tremendous Victory For Democracy”

Governor Hogan on New Congressional Map: “Tremendous Victory For Democracy”

After failed attempts by democrat lawmakers to maintain the state’s gerrymandered congressional map, Governor Larry Hogan enacted a new congressional map for the state of Maryland earlier this week. The new map was the result of a Maryland Judge dismissing the democrat legislatures map and referring to it as “extreme gerrymandering”.Continue Reading

Maryland State Senator on Democrat’s New Congressional Map “it’s Lipstick on a Pig”

Maryland State Senator on Democrat’s New Congressional Map “it’s Lipstick on a Pig”

Five days after a county judge struck down the democrats proposed congressional map the Maryland General Assembly passed a new map without the support of their republican colleagues. Maryland State Senator Michael Hough (R-Frederick & Carroll County) joined O’Connor & Company this morning to discuss how the new map remains a gerrymandered mess created to keep democrats in power statewide.Continue Reading

AG Miyares Takes Legal Action Against Thomas Jefferson High School for Discriminatory Practices 

AG Miyares Takes Legal Action Against Thomas Jefferson High School for Discriminatory Practices 

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that his office was filing an amicus brief against Thomas Jefferson High School of employing discriminatory and illegal admissions practices. Miyares’ office alleges that the school’s unconstitutional policies unfairly discriminated against Asian American students on the bases of their race.  Continue Reading

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