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By ANGELA WOOLSEY,
FFXnow
The cost of riding Metro trains and buses will go up, starting July 1, when the transit agency’s new budget takes effect.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) board of directors approved a $4.8 billion fiscal year 2025 budget yesterday (Thursday) that will increase fares by 12.5%, including by ending the flat $2 rate for weekend and late-night rides introduced in 2021 and expanded in 2022.
VaNews April 29, 2024
By SAMUEL B. PARKER,
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards on Thursday said the department had reached out to pro-Palestine protest organizers to ask them to decrease the frequency of their demonstrations amid a surge in violent crime in the city and persistent police staffing issues.
In a text message sent by Richmond police officer Mohammed Maher Hameed to organizer Zaid Mahdawi, Hameed requested that the protesters give Richmond police “a little break.”
VaNews April 29, 2024
By STAFF REPORT,
Loudoun Now
Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat on Friday announced a $1 billion investment to expand Google’s Virginia data center campuses this year including two Loudoun County sites.
The $1 billion investment brings Google’s total investment in the state to more than $4.2 billion. Google calculates its Loudoun County investment at more than $1 billion.
VaNews April 29, 2024
By JONATHAN HUNLEY,
Fredericksburg Free Press
It was about a year and a half ago, right before Christmas, when a Fredericksburg police officer had a life-changing moment.
He was responding to a call for service at an apartment complex, and he was first on the scene.
An 8-year-old boy had been walking back from a playground with a family member when he saw that his parents had just gotten back home. The boy ran over to see his mother and father, but he was struck by a car coming through the parking lot.
VaNews April 29, 2024
By KEITH EPPS,
Free Lance-Star
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About a year and a half ago, Fredericksburg police responded to an accident at one of the city’s apartment complexes in which an 8-year-old boy ran in front of a car and was struck. City police chief Brian Layton said the first responding officer spoke Spanish and was able to communicate with the boy. But he couldn’t save the child, who died in the officer’s arms. “It was a horrific scene,” Layton said. “That’s the kind of thing that stays with you for a lifetime.”
VaNews April 29, 2024
By DAN CASEY,
Roanoke Times
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There’s a popular saying about the war in Ukraine that goes something like this: “If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, Ukraine ends.” More than anything else, that simple aphorism highlights the nature of the most damaging conflict in Europe since World War II: Unprovoked military aggression by the authoritarian Russian Federation against a European democracy.
VaNews April 29, 2024
By DWAYNE YANCEY,
Cardinal News
Y’all sure know how to make someone feel welcome.
Not me. I’m already here. I’m talking about the Arlington reader who contacted me recently, said he’d never been west of Roanoke and hoped soon to rectify that. He was writing in response to my column in defense of Southwest Virginia which, in turn, was a response to a story in Axios Richmond that made dismissive reference to “whatever the hell is west of Roanoke.”
I told our prospective visitor that I’d give him some recommendations on what to see and do and then promptly turned to the best source for that — you.
VaNews April 29, 2024
By ROBERT ARCHER,
published in
Roanoke Times
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The efforts in the recent legislative session to make the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority more independent of the executive branch give me pause and concern. I have been involved in the alcohol business at Blue Ridge Beverage Company Inc. for more than 50 years. Our family business has always taken seriously the responsible marketing and consumption of alcoholic beverages and the issues surrounding them. Also, in my travels over the years as a member of our national trade association leadership, I learned that Virginia’s ABC has always served as a model for the control and regulation of a product that can cause harm if abused.
Archer is chairman and CEO of Blue Ridge Beverage Inc. based in Salem.
VaNews April 29, 2024
By JEFF E. SCHAPIRO,
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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It’s no secret that Gov. Glenn Youngkin — a creature of the corpocracy who came to Richmond with nary a nanosecond in politics and government — has attempted to run Virginia as he did the publicly traded investment behemoth in which he spent nearly all of his private career, amassing a $400 million-plus fortune.
It’s no secret that top-down approach — to the annoyance of Democratic and Republicans legislators accustomed to collaboration — hasn’t always worked.
VaNews April 29, 2024
By ALFRED ABUHAMAD,
published in
Virginian-Pilot
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For the past 32 years, I have had the privilege of being associated with one of the finest medical and research institutions in the country. For 29 of those years, I have also been on the front lines, delivering babies and caring for mothers. Witnessing the repercussions of serious pregnancy complications on mothers and babies has been among the most challenging and emotionally wrenching aspects of my career, and I have dedicated my clinical and research practice at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) to finding a way to prevent these tragedies.
Abuhamad is president, provost and dean of the EVMS School of Medicine.
VaNews April 29, 2024
