Governor Glenn Youngkin will make his final State of the Commonwealth address tonight. Michael Pope and Radio IQ Politics Analyst Jeff Schapiro discuss what the outgoing governor’s legacy will be.
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The forced resignation of UVA’s former president and the selection of a new leader has prompted complaints from Democrats in Richmond. On Monday, lawmakers had a chance to quiz the new president and the head of the board that selected him, but the exchange raised more questions than it answered.
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Currently, only 12 counties and seven cities in Virginia are not under some sort of drought watch or warning advisory.
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Across parts of Appalachia, some people don’t trust their water, or their water isn’t safe to drink, so they turn to bottled water, even for cooking in some cases.
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"Any place you’d be able to site build a home you’d be able to put a manufactured home. That’s as simple as it gets."
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Abigail Spanberger is about to be sworn in as Virginia's 75th governor. Fundraising for her inauguration is breaking records.
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The weekend saw protests in Richmond, Roanoke, Hampton Roads and other communities in Virginia against the agency known as ICE. We spoke with demonstrators in Charlottesville Sunday.
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A team at the University of Virginia recently mapped millions of dead trees from Maine to South Carolina.
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One of the items on the affordability agenda for Virginia Democrats this year is the Equal Pay Act.
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The ACLU of Virginia is claiming that the state’s corrections department is “over-detaining a significant number of people” as a result of earned sentence credits being improperly applied to individuals’ sentences.
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The Rural Health Transformation Fund is administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and will distribute $50 billion nationwide over the next five years. Half of that money is being granted on a competitive basis, and CMS officials were favorably impressed by several elements in Virginia's application for funding.
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