Virginia On Demand
Radio IQ’s Virginia On Demand is a weekday podcast hosted by Jeff Bossert. It’s a collection of the day’s top stories and featured stories from the Radio IQ news team as well as contributing reporters and newsrooms across the state.
Each episode features the latest in politics, Virginia’s culture, and more alongside the weather delivered in 15 minutes or less.
Latest Episodes
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The top stories for June 4, 2026, including Roanoke teachers protesting Gov. Spanberger's veto of a collective bargaining bill, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. visits Hanover to push the measles vaccine, and researchers from all over attend a conference in Roanoke on the science of exercise. -
The top stories for June 3, 2026, including state lawmakers seeking a compromise to set up a legal market for marijuana, two WWII vets over the age of 100 are honored in Roanoke as the 82nd anniversary of D-Day approaches, and Virginia's medical examiner shows in-custody deaths in prisons don't always include the required autopsy.
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The top stories for June 2, 2026, including Virginia Tech's Board of Visitors reversing course on a plan to eliminate most Living-Learning Programs, an update on state budget talks with the June 30 deadline looming, and in Sussex County, the cockaded woodpecker survives amidst the challenges of climate change.
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The top stories for June 1, 2026, including an arrest Sunday night in the shooting death of a Carroll County deputy, what impact will President Trump's push for deep sea mining have on this region, and Virginia's background checks on guns bought in private transactions have only just resumed.
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The top stories for May 29, 2026, including Gov. Spanberger's removal of the rector of Virginia Tech's Board of Visitors, a look at digital spending on campaign ads, State Police boost the use of speed cameras in school zones, and analyst Jeff Schapiro and Michael Pope provide an update on state budget talks in their Friday conversation.
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The top stories for May 28, 2026, including a look at a bleak economic forecast for Virginia, Dominion's plans for a gas-fired power plant head to the Virginia Supreme Court, and two nonprofits collaborate to rescue family farms, saving jobs in Central Virginia.
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The top stories for May 27, 2026, including failed state efforts to regulate AI amid threats of losing federal funds, Scenic Virginia starts up contests to celebrate the state's best views, and celebrating 30 years of the Charlottesville-born record label Jagjaguwar.
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The top stories for May 26, 2026, including the ongoing debate among Roanoke's leaders on the future of the Berglund Center, the effort to restore brownfields in Pulaski, and looking at the trend of car buyers and solid, non-metallic colors.
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The top stories for May 25, 2026, including a bill to address esophageal cancer named for the late Congressman Gerry Connolly, a scandal at the Charlottesville-based Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts has members concerned, and AI 's involvement in health care might be done to a level patients don't fully understand.
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The top stories for May 22, 2026, including a look in Gov. Spanberger's veto of a bill limiting transfers into Red Onion State Prison, a check in with federal workers impacted by DOGE one year later, and a look at vetoes and state budget talks in the weekly chat between Michael Pope and analyst Jeff Schapiro.