Youngkin: legislature flouting ‘broad bipartisan support’ in excluding arena from state budget • Virginia Mercury

Efforts to bring the Washington Wizards and Capitals to Virginia are now on life support after a proposal to finance an arena and associated entertainment district in Alexandria were stripped out of the two-year spending plan General Assembly budget negotiators began unveiling Thursday. The decision has openly upset Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who announced the project with great fanfare in December, and will almost certainly jeopardize Democrats’ legislative priorities, including raising the state’s minimum wage to $15 and allowing retail marijuana sales. “The Senate refused to give the single largest...