The death of a sports arena deal in northern Virginia grabbed most of the headlines this week. Michael Pope and Jeff Schapiro – political columnist with the Richmond Times-Dispatch – discuss that and all the happenings in state politics and government.
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The governor's latest round of vetoes do more harm than good, advocates and Democrats say.
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After three years of research, a team at the University of Virginia’s school of education has released a threat assessment tool that can be used by districts nationwide to prevent violence.
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Top legislators in the Virginia House of Delegates are disputing Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s claim that an independent consultant they hired gave a clean bill of health to his proposal to lure two Washington sports teams to the city of Alexandria.
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A request for more information about how that number was calculated was initially met with silence and delays. Finally, 54 days after the request, city officials responded with a one-page document that lays out some but not all of the details.
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Virginia prevents anyone who was convicted of a felony from voting, but a federal court says a suit against that law can go forward. The basis for this challenge dates back more than 150 years.
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March is traditionally the time when maple syrup is boiled down and bottled, but with climate change, some farmers in Virginia have noticed an earlier season the past several years.
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How many people should be working on trains that come through Virginia? Democrats say all those trains should have at least a two-person crew, and they sent the governor a bill that requires that. But the governor is vetoing that bill.
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Virginia pays the second lowest appointed counsel fees in the nation, second only to Mississippi.
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It might seem an impossible job to recount the last fifty years of American history in a little more than an hour – but a Grammy-winning composer, a Pulitzer prize-winning poet and one of the nation’s top singers of opera will do just that this week at UVA.
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It’s been 50 years since Charlottesville began a bold change to its downtown – closing eight blocks to traffic and turning Main Street into a pedestrian mall that is, today, the heart of the city.
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