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State Lawmakers Face Unique Challenge With Doling Out Education Funding Next Year

Lawmakers will return to Richmond next month – and writing a new budget will be a priority. But, they'll have to answer some questions about what kind of assumptions they want to make about schools.

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Charlottesville and Albemarle County have joined a growing number of communities testing their wastewater for signs of a COVID outbreak. This big picture approach doesn’t identify households or neighborhoods where people are sick, but it could give hospitals a heads up.

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New COVID-19 restrictions will go into effect Monday morning thanks to record-breaking numbers of COVID-19 infections.

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As the nation prepares to start inoculating Americans for COVID-19, public health experts worry that many people distrust the vaccine. 

The problem is especially serious among African-Americans.  During slavery and the Jim Crow era, Blacks were subjected to medical experiments without their consent, and after death their bodies were stolen from graves for use in medical schools in Richmond and Charlottesville. 

A new book details those abuses and one modern-day nightmare at the Medical College of Virginia.

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Virginia is the only state in the country where an incumbent governor is forbidden from running for re-election. But, there's no prohibition against former governors returning to the Executive Mansion.

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Virginia’s circuit courts handle everything from murder trials to marriage certificates. And the workforce making it all happen are deputy court clerks. Amidst the pandemic, their workload has only gotten heavier.

Despite that, many circuit courts in the state are understaffed and the clerks underpaid. Now advocates are hoping lawmakers can find money in the budget to help.

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As the upcoming General Assembly session approaches, lawmakers who are eyeing statewide office are trying to figure out how to juggle the legislature with the campaign trail.

Health officials feared that COVID-19 cases would surge after the Thanksgiving holiday.  And that appears to be happening.

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Virginia is 13th in the nation for electric vehicles on the road. But buyers who want “EVs” often have to go out of state to purchase them.  That’s because those states have gotten behind the wheel and created incentives to purchase them, as well as the infrastructure for vehicles with zero emissions.

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Virginia Republicans will hold a convention rather than a primary next year to determine the party's candidate for governor.

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The Virginia Military Institute has removed a prominent statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

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