Minnesota officials knew early in the pandemic that there were fraud issues in a major food assistance program but kept money flowing because they feared the political fallout of a racially tinged lawsuit, according to a new House report Wednesday.

The good news: With its session ending March 14, Virginia’s legislature did not pass State Sen. Saddam Salim’s (D-Fairfax) bill (S.B. 624) to make “Islamophobia” a crime. The bad news: instead of defeating this measure — unnecessary at best, dangerous at worst — legislators carried it over to 2027. A tale of opposites: In 2022, […]