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By DEAN MIRSHAHI,
WRIC-TV
Veterinarians will not be allowed to declaw cats in Virginia starting in July, unless there are certain “therapeutic” reasons to do so.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) signed a bill from Del. Marty Martinez (D-Loudoun) that prohibits declawing procedures on cats by veterinarians.
VaNews April 17, 2024
By TEO ARMUS,
Washington Post
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Amazon has fallen so far behind schedule in creating new jobs at its Northern Virginia headquarters that its workforce at those offices shrank last year, the company confirmed, showing how the project that it had pitched as an economic jolt is instead hitting a slowdown. Following a much-hyped sweepstakes across North America, the tech giant in 2018 made a deal with Virginia officials to locate half of its second headquarters in Arlington, just outside D.C.: In exchange for as much as $750 million in taxpayer subsidies from the commonwealth, it agreed to build a massive new campus near the Pentagon and fill it with tens of thousands of new employees.
VaNews April 17, 2024
By DEAN MIRSHAHI,
WRIC-TV
All Virginia hospitals with an emergency department will have to have at least one doctor on-site at all times instead of on-call starting in July 2025.
Two identical bills proposing the staffing requirement from Del. Patrick A. Hope (D-Arlington) and state Sen. Stella G. Pekarsky (D-Fairfax) easily passed out the General Assembly and were signed into law by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R).
VaNews April 17, 2024
By GREGORY S. SCHNEIDER AND LAURA VOZZELLA,
Washington Post
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Democratic leaders and Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) remain at loggerheads as Virginia lawmakers return to the state Capitol on Wednesday to take action on the budget and other bills the governor has proposed changing, barreling toward a June 30 deadline to adopt a two-year spending plan or begin shutting down the state government. Democrats have said repeatedly in recent days that they are in no mood to compromise with Youngkin, who welcomed the legislature’s budget in March by calling it “backward” and going on a tour around the state proclaiming how misguided it was.
VaNews April 17, 2024
By MATT BUSSE,
Cardinal News
Among more than 200 budget amendments proposed by Virginia’s governor that lawmakers are preparing to consider is one that would cancel the creation of a $5 million program to help low-income families buy homes.
The pilot program would provide grants for people who earn up to 60% of an area’s median income to put toward a down payment on a home. The grants would be forgivable if recipients regularly pay the mortgage and live in the home for at least 15 years.
VaNews April 17, 2024
By GHAZALA HASHMI AND MARCIA S. "CIA" PRICE,
published in
Virginian-Pilot
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In a striking disregard for the values and will of Virginians, Gov. Glenn Youngkin last week proposed a substitute that would gut Virginia’s Right to Contraception Act (RTCA), vital legislation we introduced as a critical defense against the growing right-wing assault on reproductive freedom.
The governor claimed our bill, which would protect Virginians’ right to use condoms, the pill, IUDs and Plan B, went “too far.” Instead, he replaced it with a Section 1 bill, reducing the legislation to a non-binding suggestion rather than an enforceable law. Simply put, it’s not worth the paper it’s written on.
Sen. Hashmi represents Chesterfield County and Del. Price represents Newport News. Both are Democrats.
VaNews April 17, 2024
By JOSH JANNEY,
Virginian-Pilot
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Construction is expected to begin within the year on new docks and a seafood market at the city-owned Seafood Industrial Park.
Newport News recently secured state funding to begin construction work on the dock improvements. Last week, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced that an $800,000 grant from the Port Host Communities Revitalization Fund would go to Newport News to redevelop the 39-acre Seafood Industrial Park dock.
VaNews April 17, 2024
By ARYA HODJAT,
Washingtonian
It may be the first political scandal caused by not posting a picture of an exposed breast.
Eugene Vindman, a retired US Army colonel who gained prominence for reporting then-President Trump’s alleged attempt to coerce Ukraine into investigating the Biden family, leading to Trump’s first impeachment trial, gained a different kind of notoriety on Saturday amid his race to represent Virginia’s 7th Congressional District as a Democrat, after Democratic operative Jim McBride posted a picture of him on Twitter with a slightly different version of the state’s flag.
VaNews April 17, 2024
By HANNAH ALLAM AND RAZZAN NAKHLAWI,
Washington Post
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A court appearance Monday solved one part of the mystery surrounding a Virginia man whose alleged talk of explosives landed him in a federal investigation: Russell Vane IV is alive.
Vane, 42, who uses the nickname “Duke,” had gone silent early this month after an anti-government militia he belonged to publicly disavowed him over concerns about his repeated references to bombmaking. An obituary for Vane popped up online in early April, saying that he’d died in mid-March, but the notice disappeared after a couple days. A man who answered Vane’s phone last week told The Washington Post that “Duke killed himself.”
But Vane appeared, very much alive, in federal custody Monday ...
VaNews April 17, 2024
By SHANTEL DAVIS,
WWBT-TV
There was another packed house in the Powhatan school board meeting room Tuesday night as nearly 200 hundred people urged the board for two things.
“Two months after a racist death threat was made, we have seen almost no movement forward,” said Chiara Hoyt, secretary of the Powhatan chapter of NAACP. … On the table, the school board approved the 2023 Transgender Model Policy with a 4-1 vote. This means teachers are now required to only call students by their name and pronoun associated with their official school record.
VaNews April 17, 2024
