Jahd Khalil
Radio IQ Richmond ReporterJahd Khalil is a reporter and producer in Richmond.
Originally from Nebraska, Khalil was previously based in Cairo where he helped co-found Madamasr.com. He was a reporting fellow with The GroundTruth Project and the University of California-Berkeley’s 11th Hour Food and Farming Fellowship.
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Virginia rolled out six new mental and behavioral health services for Medicaid members Wednesday, alongside a program that seeks to avoid involving law enforcement in mental health crises. -
Those incarcerated in Virginia before 1995 typically only have one option to get out of jail early: the governor has to grant them clemency. As Governor Ralph Northam enters his last full month in office, his time to make those decisions is running out.
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Virginia's Medicaid program cost hundreds of millions of dollars less than usual due to effects from the pandemic. While the unusual causes for that created issues for the state's budget planners, their forecasts indicate funding and budgeting will go back to normal.
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Each year the Pamunkey and Mattaponi, two Native American tribes in Virginia, fulfill a legal obligation that has become a Thanksgiving fixture. Wednesday, two deer were laid out on the ground in the garden of the Governor’s Mansion.
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On the sidelines of a staid meeting for elected officials to go over budget numbers Monday, Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax met his successor, Winsome Sears, marking the first time a statewide official of color met their first successor that is also a person of color.
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The Supreme Court of Virginia selected two people to serve as special masters, experts that will redraw political districts after a new independent commission failed to submit maps on time, in an order issued Friday.
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A presentation by budget planners Tuesday revealed the extra obstacles school closures face to education funding, two years out.
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Staffers on the House of Delegates Appropriations Committee spoke cautiously about Virginia’s finances while outlining how the Commonwealth became flush with cash during the course of the pandemic.
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Journalists and analysts called this month’s election for Republicans a few hours after the polls closed, but Monday the State Board of Elections certified local election boards’ results.
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The new presumptive Republican majority in the House of Delegates and Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin will inherit the sticky question of how to create a retail market for marijuana, which is currently legal in small amounts.
