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U.Va. Faculty Senate overwhelmingly adopts a no confidence vote in Board of Visitors
The Faculty Senate held an emergency meeting Friday as part of ongoing discussions surrounding the University’s next steps towards choosing a new president. In the meeting, the Faculty Senate passed a resolution for a vote of no-confidence in the Board. The resolution passed 46 to 6, with eight senators abstaining.
General Assembly prepares for potential September special session
General Assembly leadership has advised legislators that they could be called back to a special session the second week of September, lobbyists, delegates and state senators told VPM News. At the end of the 2025 session, legislators amended the rules for a still-active special session from 2024 to “address the impacts” of actions taken by the federal government. The special session would come after trillions of dollars in changes to the federal tax structure . . .
Mother of teen killed in York County crash has spearheaded new state safety laws — and she’s not done
If you let someone drive your car without a license — and they cause an accident that injures or kills someone — you could now face up to a year behind bars. A new state law says if you knowingly authorize someone to drive a car when they have no legal right to do so, you’re guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor “if the offense results in a motor vehicle accident that causes injury or death.” That includes parents who let minors drive without a license or while breaking the state’s rules on learner’s permits. It’s the fourth state law that Tammy McGee has spearheaded to passage since her son, Conner, was killed in a York County car crash nearly six years ago.
Yancey: Nothern Virginia is ‘at a critical crossroads,’ which means rural Virginia is, too
An office complex in Fairfax County recently changed hands, and taxpayers across rural Virginia ought to be alarmed. Why should we care who owns Tysons International Plaza? We don’t. We should, though, care about what the new owners paid for it: 60% less than the previous owners had bought it for just eight years ago.
Virginia Intermont campus owners pay off Bristol taxes
The owners of the former Virginia Intermont College property, on Friday, paid off its current and delinquent Bristol, Virginia, tax bills — effectively negating a city lawsuit filed Thursday. John Kieffer, a local attorney representing U.S. Magis International Education Center, delivered cashier’s checks totaling $353,484 to city Treasurer Angel Britt’s office at noon Friday. ... The funds arrived at TACS on Thursday, the same day Bristol Virginia filed action in Circuit Court seeking control of the property due to non-payment of taxes under provisions of a new state law designed to address vacant, blighted properties.
Following shoplifting charge, bond revoked for ex-Middletown treasurer accused of embezzlement
Middletown’s former treasurer and town manager had her bond revoked Thursday after she was arrested last week for shoplifting from a Martin’s grocery store in Frederick County. Rebecca Louise Layman, 52, is set to stand trial in November on 12 felony counts of embezzling from Middletown. Authorities have not disclosed how much she allegedly took from the town, but Frederick County Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Heather Enloe said Thursday that the amount is “in the six figures.”
Spotsylvania approves water use agreement for data center
Data centers require heavy use of water to cool the equipment in the facilities that power the Internet, something Spotsylvania County leaders have addressed while approving numerous developments. Before approving numerous data center developments, the county established an agreement with developers, including Amazon, to construct a re-use water system to be used to cool the facilities.
Stafford riverfront residents fear impact of proposed data centers
Data centers tend to be in the same boat as prisons, landfills and airports — they’re needed facilities that nobody wants in their backyard. But residents along State Route 3 east in Stafford County, beyond the Ferry Farm development and before King George County, are rallying the troops to oppose nearby data centers because of a major difference with their situation. The Rappahannock River is in their backyard.
Loudoun Panel Supports Replacing Flex-Warehouses with Data Centers
A proposal that would replace flex-warehouse buildings near Sterling with data centers and a utility substation received a recommendation of approval from the county Planning Commission this week. The application would rezone 17 acres from Planned Development – General Industrial to Industrial Park and permit the redevelopment of 268,700 square feet of existing flex-warehouse space into nearly 600,000 square feet of data center uses and a five-acre substation. ... Project Manager Erin Fisher said this is the first application of an influx of proposals to convert warehouse space to data center and industrial uses along the Rt. 28 corridor.
'Old name, new legacy': Fort Lee's renaming celebrated in ceremony on post
Fort Lee has ceremoniously rechristened itself after two years under the name “Gregg-Adams,” but speakers at the July 11 event that unveiled new signs say that while the page might be turned on the post’s name, the book will never close on the legacies of its former namesakes. “Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams represented the very best of our Army,” post commander Maj. Gen. Michelle Donahue said.