Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking: The Death Penalty

When I say I am pro-life, that means I value the dignity and sanctity of every human life. To be consistently in favor of life I have to ...

Siobhan Dunnavant

Critical Thinking: Taking Politics Out of the Process

HB1090 proposes a change to ensure that parents and their children in Virginia have the best guidelines for recommended vaccination sched...

Siobhan Dunnavant

Critical Thinking: Anti-Discrimination

We Believe...that all individuals are entitled to equal rights, justice, and opportunities and should assume their responsibilities as ci...

Siobhan Dunnavant

Critical Thinking: Prescription Costs

We have to do something about the costs of prescriptions. The Pharmacy Benefits Managers (“PBMs”) are the people who administer how your ...

Siobhan Dunnavant

Critical Thinking: Monuments

This morning, I took a vote against SB183, which provides that a locality may remove, relocate, or alter a war monument or memorial, rega...

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Critical Thinking: Lee-Jackson Day

A quick update from today. Among other things heard on the floor, we discussed whether or not to replace Lee-Jackson Day with Election Da...

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Critical Thinking: SB70

Today I voted for SB 70 because I believe it has the potential to prevent gun violence by preventing people who should not have guns from...

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Critical Thinking: Updates from Education and Health Committee This Week

The idea of this blog is to provide a closer look at what happens in the day-to-day role of a citizen legislator during the General Assem...

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Critical Thinking: Transgender School Policy

The Education and Health Public Health subcommittee held a meeting the first Friday of session. In the chaos of the first week, the meeti...

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First Day of the 2020 Legislative Sesion

This is the first in what I hope to be a series of posts about the day-to-day events happening at the General Assembly. With these posts,...

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