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See how much candidates in Virginia’s 11 U.S. House districts reported raising in the first three months of 2024, along with their cash on hand.
VaNews April 17, 2024
By ROBERT ZULLO,
Virginia Mercury
The nation’s largest public power company, the Tennessee Valley Authority, which serves 10 million people in Tennessee and parts of six neighboring states, has put forward plans for eight new natural gas plants since 2020.
In South Carolina, Dominion Energy and Santee Cooper are pushing the state legislature to pave the way for a 2,000-megawatt natural gas power plant. Farther north, Dominion also plans new gas generation in Virginia. In its most recent plan filed with state regulators, Georgia Power is looking to add new gas turbines. Likewise, Duke Energy in North Carolina is proposing new gas plants and delaying coal power retirements.
VaNews April 16, 2024
By NORMAN K. STYER,
Loudoun Now
The four-year effort to increase opportunities for agricultural operations even as western Loudoun properties are carved up into new subdivisions is nearing a final Board of Supervisors vote, but debate continues over whether the new policies would hamper broader countryside conservation efforts.
Following a public hearing that stretched to nearly 3 a.m. April 11, county supervisors have scheduled a June vote on the proposed zoning regulations for rural cluster subdivisions aimed at limiting development on the best spaces for farming, defined as having prime agricultural soils.
VaNews April 16, 2024
By IVY MAIN,
published in
Daily Progress
(Metered Paywall - 25 articles a month)
Virginia’s 2024 legislative session wrapped up last month without any action to avert the energy crisis that is hurtling towards us. Crisis is not too strong a word to describe the unchecked proliferation of power-hungry data centers in Northern Virginia and around the state. Virginia utilities do not have the energy or transmission capacity to handle the enormous increases in energy consumption. Dominion Energy projects a doubling of CO2 and a new fossil fuel buildout. Drinking water sources are imperiled.
Main is a lawyer and a longtime volunteer with the Sierra Club’s Virginia chapter.
VaNews April 15, 2024
By TAD DICKENS,
Cardinal News
Sen. Tim Kaine, in a Friday letter to the Federal Trade Commission’s chairwoman, called on the agency to investigate the failure of Google and Meta to remove videos showing the 2015 murders of two Roanoke television journalists and the wounding of a third person.
WDBJ-TV reporter Alison Parker and photographer Adam Ward died in August 2015 during a report from Smith Mountain Lake, after a former co-worker attacked them. Vicki Gardner, whom the two were interviewing at Bridgewater Plaza, was seriously wounded.
VaNews April 15, 2024
By KARINA ELWOOD,
Washington Post
(Metered Paywall - 3 articles a month)
When April Hu heard that the admissions process at her alma mater was being legally challenged, she knew she wanted to help.
She had seen affirmative action being challenged at universities around the country, but this was different. The challenge wasn’t against her college, it was against Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a prestigious magnet school in Northern Virginia. And the case wasn’t challenging affirmative action — it was challenging a new “race-neutral” approach for admissions. Hu, a lawyer, thought the new admissions policy was admirable, and deserved to stay in place. She and her colleague, Mica Moore, a fellow TJ alum and lifelong friend, started brainstorming how they could help defend the new policy.
VaNews April 15, 2024
By RYAN MURPHY,
WHRO
Norfolk wants to redevelop MacArthur Center into a major mixed-use development anchored by a 400-room military-themed hotel.
Mayor Kenny Alexander said during his State of the City the redeveloped mall would include 518,000 square feet of high-rise residential space, including rentals and units to own.
“The future of MacArthur Mall demands a bold vision that celebrates our culture, reconnects our city, attracts tourists and ensures economic vitality,” Alexander said in his address to the region’s civic and business leaders.
VaNews April 15, 2024
By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY,
Cardinal News
Roanoke College is launching a cannabis studies program this fall. The University of Lynchburg has joined the bandwagon, too, recently unveiling a professional certification in cannabis health care and medicine. But neither of these schools was the first to do it in Virginia. Nate Miller, an adjunct professor of horticulture at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, claims his was the first higher-education cannabis certification in the commonwealth. He launched it in the fall of 2022.
VaNews April 15, 2024
By LAURENCE HAMMACK,
Roanoke Times
(Metered Paywall - 5 articles a month)
Customers of Appalachian Power Co. will be able to purchase solar power directly from independent providers, but it may not save them as much money as some had hoped. Nor will it happen anytime soon, following Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s approval this week of a law that sets the framework for the so-called shared solar program. Shared solar allows people who are unable to install solar panels because they live in apartments or homes that don’t get adequate sunlight – or who can’t afford such projects – to purchase some of their electricity from a solar farm operated by a private company.
VaNews April 15, 2024
By EMMA COLEMAN,
Roanoke Times
(Metered Paywall - 5 articles a month)
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google and Meta regarding the continued presence of a video depicting the murders of two Roanoke journalists. In August 2015, Alison Parker and Adam Ward with Roanoke’s WDBJ news channel were shot and killed by a former colleague during a live broadcast. A third person, Vicki Gardner, was seriously wounded during the attack, which the gunman recorded on video.
VaNews April 15, 2024
