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Roanoke Times
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The town of Blacksburg is streamlining the process of making and responding to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
It launched a new records management software called JustFOIA, according to a town news release.
JustFOIA is designed for state and local government entities to modernize public records management and accessibility, according to the release.
VaNews April 22, 2024
By CATHY DYSON,
Free Lance-Star
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People who’ve gotten free medical care at the Moss Free Clinic, as well as those who volunteer and work there, joined members of the community Sunday to show their support for the services the clinic provides. Jim Eagan told the crowd of about 80 people that he went to the clinic when he had an abscessed tooth and couldn’t find help anywhere else. ... The rally came about as the partnership between Mary Washington Healthcare and the clinic, named after the late co-founder, Dr. Lloyd Moss, has deteriorated in recent months.
VaNews April 22, 2024
By BILL ATKINSON,
Progress Index
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Hopewell’s outgoing city attorney has recommended that the Virginia attorney general’s office look into claims by an alleged department employee that the city’s treasurer improperly removed herself from a state agency’s list of delinquent taxpayers without attempting to settle her own tax debts. The allegations against Shannon Foskey were brought up in a letter sent last week to Commonwealth’s Attorney Rick Newman and cited in an April 18 memo from now-former city attorney Danielle Smith to City Manager Dr. Concetta Manker.
VaNews April 22, 2024
By SUSAN CAMERON,
Cardinal News
Recently unsealed search warrants executed at cannabis-related stores as part of a sweeping law enforcement operation across Southwest Virginia last fall detail weeks of undercover buys and catalog the seizure of ATMs, thousands of dollars in cash and containers of plant materials bearing labels like “Grease Monkey” and “Stomp Purple.”
A spokeswoman for the Virginia State Police, which helped coordinate the sweep, said there have been no charges or arrests in connection with the searches. The agency is “still working through the investigation” with the county commonwealth’s attorneys, Corinne Geller said Friday.
VaNews April 22, 2024
By CAITLYN BURCHETT,
Virginian-Pilot
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A Navy review is shining a light on major shipbuilding delays, including at the Newport News shipyard, but defense experts point to larger systemic issues constraining the industrial base’s production capacity. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro ordered a 45-day shipbuilding review this year with the goal of identifying causes of shipbuilding challenges and recommending actions to keep new builds on schedule. A one-page fact sheet released in April showed several of the Navy’s top shipbuilding programs are one to three years behind schedule.
VaNews April 22, 2024
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Editorial
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In Richmond, deadly shootings tend to occupy the public conscience like passing April showers. They come and go like downpours.
The collective outrage over the latest homicide spree — 10 since Easter Sunday, four of whom were teenagers, as of Friday afternoon — is sparking a new round of law enforcement crackdowns and renewed calls for family and community interventions. ... At some point, however, we must acknowledge the hard truth: Despite all the political convulsions, no one really expects this problem to go away. Gun violence has been part of Richmond’s story for at least the past 40 years.
VaNews April 22, 2024
By SEAN SUBLETTE,
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Coming off the warmest winter on record nationally, and the ninth warmest on record in Virginia, long-term planning for the impacts of the warming climate at the local level are becoming more important. Fair or not, there is often unease on the topic between Northern Virginia and Southern Virginia. But earlier this year, a team from George Mason University in Fairfax began working with community leaders and local officials from Southside Virginia through the university's Local Climate Action Planning Initiative. Many areas away from the state's larger communities do not have the resources to develop or execute an environmental plan ...
VaNews April 22, 2024
By MICHAEL PAUL WILLIAMS,
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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After the Hanover County School Board banned 19 books last June, Kate Lindley launched “Free to Read,” her Girl Scout Gold Award project. Lindley, who’d competed as a Reading Olympian as a Hanover student, was appalled at the censorship and determined to combat it. She coded a “Free to Read” app with information about the misbegotten ban and the books affected. And after the board banned more than 70 additional books in November, she set up Banned Book Nooks at two Hanover businesses: Morr Donuts in Mechanicsville and We Think In Ink in Ashland.
VaNews April 22, 2024
By SEN. JENNIFER BOYSKO,
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Virginian-Pilot
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Virginians care deeply about what happens to animals used in experiments, and so do I. For decades, Virginia’s animal testing facilities and the breeders that supply them operated under the radar. There was little accountability, as we in the General Assembly discovered when we learned of the suffering of thousands of beagles at Envigo. That shocking case spurred us to pass historic legislation (which I proudly carried with state Sen. Bill Stanley, R-Franklin) to afford animals in such facilities vital protections and hold accountable those who violate the meager requirements of the federal Animal Welfare Act.
Sen. Boysko represents the 38th District, which includes part of Fairfax County.
VaNews April 22, 2024
By THAD GREEN,
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Topsoe, a Danish company that provides carbon emission reduction technologies worldwide, announced it will build a manufacturing facility in Chesterfield County. The facility is being aided by nearly $136 million in tax credits that Topsoe received as a result of the Inflation Reduction Act, which provides provisions and tax credits to incentivize clean energy investments. The project is expected to bring more than $400 million in investments and at least 150 new jobs to Virginia. The exact location of the facility has not yet been disclosed ...
VaNews April 22, 2024
