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WEB6 days ago · The federal government approved a major disaster declaration for Virginia on Wednesday, which will allow residents, businesses and local governments in Southwest Virginia reeling from Hurricane Helene’s deadly impact to apply for funding to aid their recovery efforts. In a news release, the Federal Emergency Management Agency …
Fewer than 200 Southwest Virginians remain without power post …
WEB1 day ago · Recovery efforts in Southwest Virginia following Hurricane Helene remain a priority for Gov. Glenn Youngkin as government resources continue to aid states affected by the storm’s devastation, including North Carolina, and soon Florida, where an extremely dangerous category 5 hurricane is predicted to make landfall Wednesday night.
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WEBSep 18, 2024 · The strange obsession with low birth rates. BY: Ivy Main - August 20, 2024. The human population of the Earth passed 8 billion in 2022, up from 7 billion in 2011 and less than 2 billion just a century ago. The United Nations projects that by 2050, the world will hit 9.7 billion people and continue rising to 10.9 billion in 2100.
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WEB6 days ago · BY: Markus Schmidt - October 7, 2024. The morning of Monday, April 16, 2007, is forever etched in Virginia Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Kaine’s memory. On that tragic day, Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in a mass shooting before taking his own life.
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WEBJan 1, 2024 · 1. Virginia Democrats triumph in statehouse elections, reducing Youngkin’s power. The rest of the country may already be fixated on the 2024 presidential election, but Virginians were clearly more concerned with who they were sending to Richmond for the last two years of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration. The 2023 General Assembly …
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WEBSep 17, 2024 · Shuttered Va. Boar’s Head plant workers speak out after listeria outbreak and more state headlines BY: Staff Report - September 16, 2024 • “Virginia voters support school cellphone bans, Post-Schar School poll finds.”—Washington Post • “Employees speak out after Virginia Boar’s Head plant announces shut down.”—WRIC • “Maryland, …
The first bills of the 2024 Virginia General Assembly have dropped ...
WEBNov 20, 2023 · In 2020, the Virginia General Assembly under Democratic control voted to gradually raise the state minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $12 an hour over the course of three years. That legislation also provided for further increases of the minimum to $13.50 in 2025 and $15 in 2026 if the General Assembly again voted to approve them by July 1, …
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WEBBY: Markus Schmidt - August 28, 2024. State Sen. John McGuire, R-Goochland, remains the winner in a highly contested GOP primary in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, following an unexpected additional review of ballots from five of the district’s 24 localities almost one month after a full recount that did not significantly change the ...