Rules To Work By, and Newcomers Throwing Down — Weekly Roundup of Beacon Hill

Rules To Work By, and Newcomers Throwing Down — Weekly Roundup of Beacon Hill

Recap and analysis of the week in state government

By Matt Murphy
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE

Five Questions After Watching Virginia Governor Ralph Northam In Action
Commentary

Five Questions After Watching Virginia Governor Ralph Northam In Action

Matthew McDonald

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's political life is pretty close to non-viable after an image of his 1984 medical school yearbook surfaced showing a picture of two men standing side-by-side, one in blackface and the other in a white Ku Klux Klan outfit.

You can't tell from the photo which one is Northam, or if either one is. Apparently, at one point even Northam couldn't. (More on that below.)

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