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Federal license plate reader searches raise surveillance questions
Across Virginia, automated license plate readers built by Flock Safety silently capture and log details of every passing car. Most people don’t know they are being tracked; fewer know where that data ends up. Data from automatic license plate readers usually ends up in the hands of law enforcement. In Virginia, state and local law enforcement can access this data to support criminal investigations or missing persons cases. But in the City of Richmond, a recent incident is raising concerns about how technology can be misused for federal immigration enforcement.
Virginia, Maryland rejoin bid for Commanders stadium as DC Council lets exclusivity clause expire
Maryland and Virginia are reportedly off the bench as the state and commonwealth's bids to house the Commanders stadium have reportedly been resurrected. Hesitation within DC Council has pushed the District past a major deadline. While Washington, D.C. remained the frontrunner for the deal, with support from the Commanders franchise and NFL executives, the exclusivity clause that kept its stately neighbors from making their bids expired Tuesday. Leaving the ball in anyone's court -- or field, if you will. Despite the expiration of a key negotiation deadline, D.C. officials say a deal to bring the Washington Commanders back to the old RFK Stadium site is far from dead.
Embattled UVa Medical School dean stepping down
Four months after a resignation letter in her name was deemed a hoax and nine months after 128 health care professionals at the University of Virginia penned a letter of no confidence in her leadership, UVa School of Medicine Dean Dr. Melina Kibbe is stepping down. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston announced Monday it planned to hire Kibbe and she would officially be named president of the center after a required 21-day waiting period. UVa has not yet said who will be replacing her.
When will UVa have a new president?
There is no guarantee that the University of Virginia will have a new president by the time students return to Grounds in Charlottesville on Aug. 26. UVa announced Wednesday that the selection of an interim president will take weeks and is set to include a nomination process as well as multiple listening sessions with university community members. Former UVa President Jim Ryan's resignation took effect last Friday after he announced June 26 he would be stepping down under pressure from the Trump administration Department of Justice.
Earle-Sears shakes up campaign for Virginia governor as fundraising, polls lag
GOP gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears has asked her campaign manager — a pastor with no political experience — to step away from that role amid calls from some fellow Republicans to shake up a campaign that is lagging in fundraising and polls, according to two people familiar with the matter. Will Archer, pastor of Potomac Valley Church in Dumfries, may stay on with the campaign in a different role, according to the two, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter. The move came this week as the latest campaign finance reports indicate that Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former congresswoman, is widening her fundraising lead and a new poll shows Earle-Sears, the state’s lieutenant governor, trailing by double digits.
Democrats lead fundraising in top statewide races, but Miyares outpaces AG opponent
New campaign finance reports show Democrats hold a fundraising edge in Virginia’s races for governor and lieutenant governor, while Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares is leveraging his incumbency to outpace his Democratic challenger. The latest reports, covering the period from June 6 to June 30, show Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger raised more than $4.2 million and ended the month with over $15.2 million in the bank.
June campaign donations point to hottest House races
If money talks, what it’s saying in the latest House of Delegates campaign finance reports is that Democrats are on the attack deep into what’s long been Republican turf. The campaign finance reports filed this week and reporting on contributions for most of June say metro Richmond will be a hotbed of electioneering. But they also say Democrats see this year’s election putting into play places like western Loudoun and Fauquier counties, where Republicans have romped to easy victories for years, as well as the district that Del. Bobby Orrock, R-Caroline, has represented for 35 years in Spotsylvania and Caroline counties.
As federal job losses mount, Fairfax leaders sound alarm
Is Fairfax County — long the economic engine of the Northern Virginia and the state economy — facing an “unemployment crisis?” Fairfax Board Chairman Jeff McKay and Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, think so. They are pointing the finger at President Donald Trump for the county’s rising unemployment rate. They are faulting Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a close Republican ally of the president, for not doing more to protect the state and region from mounting losses of federal government jobs and contracts since Trump took office in January.
Letter from 12 deans to UVa. Board of Visitors goes unanswered for almost two weeks
In the wake of former University President Jim Ryan’s sudden resignation, 12 of the University’s 14 academic deans sent a letter to the Board of Visitors July 4 calling for transparency and expressing a desire to work alongside the Board during a time of "confusion and alarm” for many stakeholders. “We can be your partners in supporting the very best outcomes for our students, our patients and the broader University community,” the letter read. The Cavalier Daily obtained the letter from a source who wished to remain anonymous. The source said that, at the time of publication, the academic deans had received no response from the Board regarding their offer to meet with the Board “as soon as possible.”
UVa hospital CEO Wendy Horton to resign
Wendy Horton, CEO of the University of Virginia Medical Center, is leaving the flagship hospital of the UVa Health System. Her exit means that in less than five months all three of UVa Health's top executives have announced their departures, leaving the top-ranked hospital system in the commonwealth without permanent leadership. And this in the wake of UVa President Jim Ryan's abrupt resignation last month under pressure from the Trump administration Department of Justice over diversity policies. Horton plans to leave Charlottesville in early September for San Francisco, where she has been named senior vice president and president of adult care services within the University of California ...