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Kaine solicits feedback on workforce training bill from students at Piedmont Virginia Community College

By EMILY HEMPHILL, Daily Progress (Metered Paywall - 25 articles a month)

Sen. Tim Kaine was in Charlottesville Monday morning to visit Piedmont Virginia Community College’s adult education center, where the Virginia Democrat said he wanted to learn how he could fine-tune legislation he’s proposed for years that would expand access to federal grants to those seeking high-quality, short-term job training programs. The students and faculty at PVCC’s Thomas Jefferson Adult Career Education facility are among those who stand to benefit from Kaine’s Jumpstart Our Businesses By Supporting Students, or JOBS, Act.

VaNews March 27, 2024


How central Virginia’s mail delivery imploded

By HAYLEIGH COLOMBO AND LUCA POWELL, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Metered Paywall - 7 articles a month)

Last summer, United States Postmaster General Louis DeJoy laid out what he called a “splendid vision” for the future of the Postal Service. In his vision, one of America’s oldest agencies would shed the shackles of inefficiency and become greener, leaner, and finally competitive with logistics titans like Amazon. DeJoy said his plan — Delivering for America — would save his agency from dire financial straits and give America “the best national delivery system in the world.”

VaNews March 27, 2024


‘This is what spoiled brats do’: Democrats blast Youngkin on budget

By GRAHAM MOOMAW, Virginia Mercury

There were few signs of anyone budging in Virginia’s budget standoff Tuesday as Democratic lawmakers gathered on the steps of the state Capitol to portray their spending plan as the work of “responsible adults” and accuse Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin of behaving childishly for opposing it. “That is what spoiled brats do when they don’t get what they want,” said Sen. Mamie Locke, D-Hampton. “We are a co-equal branch of government.”

VaNews March 27, 2024


Youngkin vetoes 30 gun bills, signs 4, amends 6

By MARKUS SCHMIDT, Cardinal News

With the deadline for taking action on the legislation that the General Assembly sent him this month just two weeks away, Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Tuesday announced that he has vetoed an additional 30 bills that he said would “punish law-abiding gun owners and violate their constitutional rights.” He also signed 31 measures into law and offered amendments to six.

VaNews March 27, 2024


Baltimore bridge collapse will drive ships to Port of Va.

By KATE ANDREWS AND ROBYN SIDERSKY, Virginia Business

After a container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday, causing the bridge to collapse and possibly claiming multiple lives, ships bound for the Port of Baltimore will be diverted to other ports, primarily the Port of Virginia and the Port of New York and New Jersey.

VaNews March 27, 2024


Virginia offers help to Baltimore port blocked by bridge collapse

By MICHAEL MARTZ, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Metered Paywall - 7 articles a month)

Virginia officials scrambled on Tuesday to help neighboring Maryland with maritime commerce disrupted by the early morning collapse of a bridge in Baltimore in the main shipping channel to the city’s busy port. Aubrey Layne, chairman of the board at the Port of Virginia, said the port in Hampton Roads would not be directly affected by the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge over the Patapsco River after it was struck by a freight ship early on Tuesday. But Layne, a former state transportation and finance secretary, said the Virginia port would assist the Port of Baltimore and shipping companies to divert cargo.

VaNews March 27, 2024


Youngkin signs ‘Lucia’s Law,’ prompted by Henrico girl’s murder

By ANDREW CAIN, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Metered Paywall - 7 articles a month)

Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed legislation prompted by the murder of Lucia Bremer, a 13-year-old Henrico County middle school student ambushed in 2021 by a fellow student in her friend's garage. The measure, which the governor signed on the third anniversary of Bremer's murder, makes it a class 5 child neglect felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $2,500 fine, for adults to let a child possess a firearm after they are notified that the child poses a threat of violence.

VaNews March 27, 2024


A woman accuses a schoolmate of raping her at age 12. The Fairfax school system says she is making it up.

By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press

A 24-year-old woman told jurors Tuesday that she was repeatedly raped and sexually harassed a decade ago as a seventh-grade student in Virginia, and that school officials reacted to her pleas for help with indifference. Lawyers for the school system say she is making it up, and she wept on the stand when she was cross-examined about evidence suggesting her allegations were untrue. An eight-person civil jury in U.S. District Court in Alexandria will have to decide whether the woman — identified in court papers only by her initials B.R. — is telling the truth, and whether school officials should be held liable for their response.

VaNews March 27, 2024


Moss Free Clinic officials say their commitment to continued care is ‘unwavering’

By CATHY DYSON, Free Lance-Star (Metered Paywall - 10 articles a month)

Officials with the Lloyd F. Moss Free Clinic stress that their mission “as a beacon of hope and health care” for the underserved in the Fredericksburg area will continue, even though the clinic’s relationship with Mary Washington Healthcare will not — at least not in the same fashion. “We firmly believe that there is but one true purpose in life, and that is to serve your fellow man,” said Dr. Lloyd F. Moss Jr., vice president of the Moss board of directors and son of the clinic founder. “Our commitment to health care in a compassionate and caring environment for those less fortunate remains unwavering.”

VaNews March 27, 2024


Skill game backers ask Youngkin to deliver on vow to support their industry

By GRAHAM MOOMAW, Virginia Mercury

Gov. Glenn Youngkin is still reviewing a bill that would legalize and tax the slot machine lookalikes known as skill games, but supporters of the gambling machines are asking the governor to stick to what he said he’d do when he was running for office. In a radio appearance posted to Youngkin’s campaign YouTube page in August of 2021, the then-candidate called himself a “big supporter of the skill games.” “I’m supportive of the skill games. I just think all businesses should be allowed to do business,” Youngkin said on Hampton Roads area station WNIS. “Skill games actually do enable so many small businesses to not only grow their business but also simply to survive.”

VaNews March 27, 2024