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By MATT JONES, Daily Press (Metered Paywall - 1 article a month)
The state’s guide for how schools can reopen — “Rediscover. Redesign. Restart 2020” — is 136 pages long. It includes dozens of pages of questions to guide decisions, sample schedules, models for blended remote and in-person instructions, suggestions for how art teachers can teach and advice to keep students 6 feet apart. But what the state’s guidance has in detail it lacks in rules.
By RACHEL CHASON AND REBECCA TAN, Washington Post (Metered Paywall - 3 articles a month)
Families are pleading with nursing homes to allow in-person visits. Some facilities are tentatively lifting restrictions, while others are still grappling with coronavirus outbreaks. As Virginia approaches the third phase of its recovery plan on Wednesday, nursing homes and assisted-living facilities say they are fearful of a resurgence of cases.
By ELISHA SAUERS, Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)
When Sentara Healthcare first launched its “eICU,” the plan was to provide an extra set of eyes on critical patients, especially overnight when staffing was down to a skeleton crew. The hospital system — the first in the country — wired bedside video cameras and microphones on a secure network in 2000 so a medical team could monitor patients at multiple hospitals’ intensive care units from one command center around the clock.
By MARIE ALBIGES, GARY A. HARKI, MARGARET MATRAY AND KATHERINE HAFNER, Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)
While much of Virginia tries to reopen following the coronavirus shutdown, some people are slowly emerging from their homes after months of isolation. To curb the virus’ spread, they’re being encouraged to keep their distance from others. Inside jails and prisons, there’s no phased reopening. Social distancing is impossible.
By CATHY JETT, Free Lance-Star (Metered Paywall - 10 articles a month)
The throaty roar of more than 100 motorcycles arriving at Hurkamp Park in downtown Fredericksburg was greeted with whoops and cheers by the crowd assembling for the start of a Back the Blue rally Sunday afternoon. “Mad Mike” Wade, a biker who lives in Stafford County, told the hundreds who gathered in the park to show their support for law enforcement that it was their honor to keep the rallygoers safe as they marched through downtown streets on their way to the Fredericksburg Police headquarters on Cowan Boulevard.
By MARIE ALBIGES, Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)
After months of contentious arguments on the grounds of the Virginia State Capitol, on city council daises and in campaign speeches, a slate of new state gun control laws is set to take effect Wednesday. The topic of gun control dominated the General Assembly’s most recent legislative session, with Democrats — newly in the majority in both chambers and armed with the support of fellow Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam — pushing through a slew of bills they said were necessary to stop violence caused by guns.
By BRENDAN KING, WVIR - TV29
Homeowners in Richmond’s Fan District are covering up or replacing the historical plaques that depict the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Dana Marshall inherited the plaque on her Hanover Avenue home from the previous owners.
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Virginia Senate Democrats have published a list of 28 proposals for reforming the Commonwealth’s police and criminal justice systems, including a measure to downgrade the charge of assault on a law enforcement officer to a misdemeanor offense instead of a felony. Under current law, anyone who is convicted of assaulting a law enforcement officer is guilty of a Class 6 felony and is subject to a mandatory minimum term of confinement of six months, according to Virginia code.
By BILL ATKINSON, Progress Index (Metered paywall - 10 articles a month)
A Richmond pastor will face incumbent Democrat A. Donald McEachin for Virginia’s 4th congressional district’s seat in the November election. Rev. Leon Benjamin, chairman of the Richmond Republican Committee, was tapped for the GOP nomination during a convention Saturday. He and his wife, Maria, pastor New Life Harvest Church in south Richmond and he once served as a surrogate for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
By MEGAN WILLIAMS, Daily News Record (Metered Paywall - 5 articles a month)
U.S. Rep. Ben Cline, R-Lexington, opened his Harrisonburg headquarters on Saturday in part to kick off his reelection bid, drawing a crowd of about 100 people. Cline is running for re-election to the U.S. House to represent Virginia's 6th Congressional District. He is on the ballot in the general election on Nov. 3. The Republican primary for this office on Tuesday was not held because Cline was unopposed for the GOP nomination.
By KATE MASTERS, Virginia Mercury
A new federal report finds systemic failures in how the Virginia Department of Education monitors and responds to special education complaints against local school districts. VDOE is contesting several findings in the June 23 letter, sent to Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction James Lane by the U.S. Department of Education after a two-day site visit in late May 2019. But other experts framed it as a victory for the families and advocates of students with disabilities, who have spent years raising concerns over the state’s oversight process.
By AMY FRIEDENBERGER, Roanoke Times (Metered Paywall - 18 articles a month)
More than 1,000 new laws will go into effect in Virginia on Wednesday, including several gun control measures, legalized sports betting and marijuana decriminalization. Democrats won control of the House of Delegates and state Senate this year, providing them wide-ranging opportunities to substantially remake policy in Virginia.
By TYLER HAMMEL, Daily Progress (Metered Paywall - 25 articles a month)
The American Civil Liberties Union and a local attorney are claiming the Virginia Department of Corrections of failing to comply with a COVID-19 settlement. Earlier this year, attorney Elliott Harding filed a lawsuit on behalf of 27 Virginia prisoners, arguing that the state is infringing on the constitutional rights of prisoners by failing to meet certain safety standards amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A settlement was reached in May.
By TIM DODSON, Washington County News
As the coronavirus swept across the globe this spring, Southwest Virginia’s coal industry felt the pandemic’s impacts as companies furloughed employees and idled production at several sites amid safety concerns and reduced demand for electricity and steel. COVID-19 is the latest challenge for an industry already under pressure from cheap natural gas, a rise in renewable energy sources and big bankruptcies, among other factors.
By KIMBERLY PIERCEALL, Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)
As Virginia has passed through the phases aimed at slowly returning things to pre-pandemic life — opening restaurants for dining in, allowing gym-goers to work out inside, letting people swim laps — some Hampton Roads renters have looked at their apartment buildings’ closed gyms, swimming pools and clubhouses and thought, “Wait a minute. What am I paying rent for if I can’t use any of these things?”
By PARKER COTTON, Danville Register & Bee
Social distancing will take on a new level of importance this week at Grizzly’s Hatchet House. The axe-throwing parlor restricts how close patrons can be to one another given the nature of the activity it offers, but as Grizzly’s prepares to reopen on Wednesday, even stricter guidelines will be in place to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
By JUSTIN GEORGE, Washington Post (Metered Paywall - 3 articles a month)
The Silver Line and six Fairfax County Metro stations will reopen Aug. 16, three weeks ahead of schedule, reducing the pressure from the steady flow of riders returning to transit as the region reopens and workers head back to offices, the agency said Wednesday.
By C. SUAREZ ROJAS, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Metered Paywall - 25 articles a month)
GRTC bus fares will remain indefinitely suspended — potentially for another 12 months — under the transit agency’s adopted budget for the fiscal year that begins Wednesday. The decision to forgo revenue collection is intended to keep bus operators and passengers safe by making commuters enter through the rear of the bus and bypass ticket vending machines and fare boxes that would otherwise pose a risk for transmitting the coronavirus.
By SUSAN SVRUGLA, Washington Post (Metered Paywall - 3 articles a month)
At the entrance to the sweeping Sweet Briar College campus, where meadows full of wildflowers bloom, trails wind through old-growth forests, and the Blue Ridge Mountains shape the horizon line, the sign said: “Welcome home.” Sweet Briar, the private college in rural Virginia, will reopen to students in August. It’s marketing itself as a safe haven in the midst of a pandemic — and officials even hope that pitch might help shore up its future.
By STAFF REPORT, Coalfield Progress
University of Virginia’s College at Wise Chancellor Donna Henry announced June 18 that the school has the intention to move back to on-campus classes starting in the fall of 2020. But, the college is also prepared to move back to virtual classes if another spike in COVID-19 should occur.
By JOSH REYES, Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)
The Virginia Department of Health reported 489 new coronavirus cases and eight more deaths across the state Sunday. The state said there have been at least 61,736 cases, including those that are not confirmed, but probable because they’re symptomatic and have a known exposure to the illness.
By MAX THORNBERRY, Northern Virginia Daily
Virginia's daily testing averages have fallen off slightly since a peak of averaging 10,501 tests over a seven-day average in early June but figures continue to look strong heading into the final days of the second phase of reopening. On Sunday morning, the Virginia Department of Health reported it had conducted 6,645 tests on Saturday, a number that will grow as more results filter in over the coming days.
By LAURENCE HAMMACK, Roanoke Times (Metered Paywall - 18 articles a month)
The statewide total of COVID-19 cases rose to 61,736, the Virginia Department of Health reported Sunday. That’s an increase of 489 cases, either confirmed or probable, from Saturday. Deaths were up to 1,732, which was eight more than the day before. It was also the first time in nearly a week that the daily toll dropped back to single digits.
By STAFF REPORT, Loudoun Times
Someone who attended the Potomac Falls High School in-person graduation ceremony in Sterling Wednesday tested positive for coronavirus prior to attending the event, Loudoun County Public Schools officials announced Friday night. LCPS officials did not disclose whether the person was a graduate or another attendee.
By JOSH REYES, Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)
A group of about 25 demonstrators marched through Virginia Beach’s Municipal Center on Sunday, advocating against racism and for the defunding of police. Continuing the wave of activism for racial justice that’s spread across the country, the group made its way to the city’s fenced off Confederate Monument, and demonstrators spoke of distrust for police and the need for and transparency in law enforcement.
By CATHY JETT, Free Lance-Star (Metered Paywall - 10 articles a month)
Chanting “Back the Blue” and “I’ve got your six,” more than 100 people marched along the sidewalks from Robert E. Lee Elementary School to Spotsylvania County’s General District Court on Saturday morning. Many wore Back the Blue T-shirts in honor of National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day and hoisted signs with the slogans. Several carried American flags, and a couple of children sported blue hair in honor of police officer’s blue uniforms.
By KRISTIN DAVIS, Free Lance-Star (Metered Paywall - 10 articles a month)
Diane Wood walked this route before. It was spring 1999, and her cousin, 25-year-old Leon Washington, had gone missing. As far as she knew, he’d last been seen here, along this strip of unlined asphalt called Beazley Lane just outside Bowling Green in Caroline County. Wood, along with dozens of others, had searched this road and these woods for Washington but found no sign of him.
By JOHANNA ALONSO AND SABRINA MORENO, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Metered Paywall - 25 articles a month)
When Stephanie Merlo saw the police killing of George Floyd, she was brought back to when she was 7 years old in Texas, sitting alongside her father in his old pickup truck when the police sirens came on behind them. They ripped him from the car due to an unpaid ticket, threw him to the ground and pressed a knee into his back that restricted his breathing. They were lucky, she said, that he didn’t end up like George Floyd.
By SABRINA MORENO, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Metered Paywall - 25 articles a month)
Aaron Parker took the final inhale of his last American Spirit cigarette and craned his neck toward the graffitied vestige of a Confederate past — a general revered in his history books as a “not-so-bad” enslaver who fought for states’ rights. The Mechanicsville native never used to look up as he drove past, but after midnight on Saturday he felt empowered as a Black man on Monument Avenue, a thoroughfare anchored by tributes to people who fought for slavery, and lined by old-money homes.
By STAFF REPORT, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Access to this article limited to subscribers)
Virginia State Police found a legal “incendiary device,” a gas mask and wooden shields in an SUV driven by a Chesapeake man during a traffic stop on Arthur Ashe Boulevard in Richmond on Sunday morning....State police said troopers pulled over a Toyota RAV4 that was heading the wrong way on Arthur Ashe Boulevard near The Diamond at 9:30 p.m. Saturday. The driver attempted to flee and struggled with troopers but was taken into custody without further incident
By SEAN GORMAN AND ELIZABETH BELL, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Metered Paywall - 25 articles a month)
Police and protesters clashed once again at the Lee monument on Friday night, with chemical irritants used to clear the scene and six arrests made in the aftermath. That confrontation, which happened between 10 and 11 p.m., was followed by officers clearing the scene. Protesters then returned to their original position in what they have deemed Marcus-David Peters Circle for the remainder of the night.
By TOM JACKMAN, Washington Post (Metered Paywall - 3 articles a month)
A southwest Virginia man was arrested Friday and charged with two federal crimes related to the burning of a cross outside the home of a teenager who had organized a civil rights protest march the day before. James Brown, 40, was charged in a June 14 incident in which a wooden cross, covered in cloth and doused in an apparent flame propellant, was placed in a barrel and set on fire outside the house of a young man who lived directly across the street, according to a federal affidavit filed Friday.
By LORI ARATANI, Washington Post (Metered Paywall - 3 articles a month)
Princeton University’s board of trustees has voted to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its school of public and international affairs, saying the late president’s segregationist policies make him an “especially inappropriate namesake” for a public policy school.
By JOANNE KIMBERLIN, Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)
No one knows how many skeletons are under St. Mary’s in Norfolk, or why the 162-year-old Catholic church was built right on top of a cemetery. But when David Givens, Jamestown’s head archaeologist, recently rolled a ground penetrating radar over the sanctuary’s concrete floor, he detected void after void.
By KEN DUFFY, WTOP
People in favor of changing the name of Alexandria, Virginia’s famous public high school, which bears the name of a pro-segregationist, came together for an online rally Sunday. Dozens of people took part in the virtual discussion on why T.C. Williams High School needs to put its racist past behind it.
By JARED FORETEK, Inside NOVA (Metered Paywall)
Schools in the city received just over $1.05 million of the city’s disbursement, with Manassas City Public Schools receiving $995,000 and private schools in the city getting $55,000, as mandated by the federal government. According to MCPS Finance Executive Director Andy Hawkins, the range of uses for the money is relatively broad, and he said much would go to expenses for new online learning systems that took shape after schools closed in March.
By SABRINA MORENO, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Metered Paywall - 25 articles a month)
Twelve days after committing to a nationwide search for Richmond’s new police chief, Mayor Levar Stoney introduced the third man to take the helm in less than a month. Gerald Smith, who comes from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police department in North Carolina, arrived to fresh outrage after the latest confrontation between police and protesters on the 29th night of demonstrations over police brutality.
By WHITTNEY EVANS, WCVE
Richmond's new Police Chief Gerald Smith comes to Virginia from Charlotte-Mecklenburg, a department that, like Richmond, is grappling with complaints of excessive force against protesters. Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney told reporters at a press conference Saturday, that Smith is ready to lead the department and work collaboratively with the community on how they want the department to operate.
By KENYA HUNTER, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Metered Paywall - 25 articles a month)
Rasheeda Creighton and her friends felt pride as the Black History Month program they’d worked hard to put on at Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School wrapped up. It was 1995 and the magnet school had opened just four years earlier, with few Black students enrolled. They needed one another, as Black teens navigating a white institution and feeling the pressure to succeed.
By ROBYN SIDERSKY, Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)
A group has planned a sit-in Monday at Norfolk City Hall calling for transparency from the Norfolk police department. The sit-in is a response to a Pilot story about the department and the city denying Freedom of Information Act requests about police use-of-force reports from the past decade.
By RYAN MURPHY, Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)
An effort by gun-rights advocates in Norfolk to force the City Council to consider a measure preventing staff from enforcing some state gun laws has failed to net enough signatures. That means the ordinance pushed by advocates won’t appear on the City Council’s agenda any time soon, and there’s no public hearing scheduled on the matter. But that may not be the end of the effort.
By DAVE RESS, Daily Press (Metered Paywall - 1 article a month)
As the crews on Interstate 64 work on widening an 8-mile, upper York County stretch of Hampton Roads’ main highway connection west, one of the Peninsula’s few rural corners is becoming a development hot spot. Crews are clearing ground off Waller Mill road, on the Carr’s Hill Tract that Colonial Williamsburg sold earlier this year, reviving the notion, first approved 13 years ago, that site of the 18th century Benjamin Powell Plantation would be a good place for 300-plus single family homes.
By ANDREA CAMBRON, WTOP
Fredericksburg Mayor Katherine Greenlaw has adopted a three-part plan to address racial inequality and discrimination after protesters clashed with city police and the Stafford County Sheriffs Office in late May and early June.
By SCOTT SHENK, Free Lance-Star (Metered Paywall - 10 articles a month)
Spotsylvania County has pocketed $11.9 million allocated through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, a federal fund aimed at helping localities contend with expenses related to COVID-19. But the county hasn’t determined how to distribute the funds. During a public hearing last week, Deputy County Administrator Bonnie Jewell told the Board of Supervisors that staff is gathering information on pandemic costs and how to use the funds.
By DAWN HAUN, Free Lance-Star (Metered Paywall - 10 articles a month)
Caroline County is partnering with Atlantic Broadband to apply for state grants that could eventually bring high-speed internet access to as many as 300 homes if the project is approved. The Virginia Telecommunication Initiative announced in January by Gov. Ralph Northam will award more than $18.3 million in grants to broadband expansion projects in the state, mainly in rural areas. The grants are expected to connect about 36,000 households across Virginia.
By KATELYN WALTEMYER, Harrisonburg Citizen
Back in the early days of COVID-19, neighbors Josie Showalter and Seán McCarthy were walking their dogs when the conversation shifted to the pandemic’s economic effects. Showalter, the manager of the Harrisonburg Farmers Market, told McCarthy, a JMU professor, about how customers were staying home — and away from the farmers market.
Roanoke Times Editorial (Metered Paywall - 18 articles a month)
Virginia needs a new museum. We’ve said this before. Today we’ll say it again, but with more details. We’ve previously looked at what other countries have done with monuments of historical figures who had fallen into disfavor. Some of the formerly communist countries in eastern Europe — Hungary, Lithuania and, we’ve since learned, Estonia — have taken the statues that came down along with the Iron Curtain and used them to populate outdoor museums that tell the story of what happened between 1945 and 1989.
Daily Press Editorial (Metered Paywall - 1 article a month)
Sports were among the first to go as coronavirus took firm hold in America. Professional leagues began cancelling games in March as the number of cases began to rise, followed by college and high school teams as schools closed to slow the pathogen’s spread. Restarting these events aren’t priority one as parts of the nation begin to reopen, but their return would mark a step toward normalcy that many people covet.
Washington Post Editorial (Metered Paywall - 3 articles a month)
For about 20 years, the All Muslim Association of America had quietly run a small Islamic cemetery in suburban Stafford County, south of the District, without a hint of controversy. It was only in 2016, after the nonprofit group purchased a new parcel for a larger cemetery — with the first nearly at capacity — that the trouble began. And that trouble has borne a distinct whiff of Islamophobia.
Roanoke Times Editorial (Metered Paywall - 18 articles a month)
You know the old joke about how many Virginians it takes to change a light bulb: Five. One to talk about the bulb and four to talk about how much better the old one was. If there’s one thing we like to do, it’s talking about our history. Virginia started the official planning for 2007 events that marked the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown 11 years beforehand.
Free Lance-Star Editorial (Metered Paywall - 10 articles a month)
Under Gov. Ralph Northam’s Phase III reopening recommendations, which go into effect on July 1, in-person instruction for all students in Virginia may be offered under social distancing and other guidelines found in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “School Readiness and Planning Tool,” but school divisions should also continue to offer online learning to students and staff who are at a higher risk of contracting COVID-19.
Virginian-Pilot Editorial (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)
The Norfolk Police Department could release its use-of-force reports. There’s nothing in state law preventing the agency or the city from doing so. What’s more, a recent records request for those documents filed by Virginian-Pilot reporter Jonathan Edwards was a perfect opportunity for the department to demonstrate transparency at a time when protests across the nation — and here in Hampton Roads — are calling for exactly that.
Richmond Times-Dispatch Editorial (Metered Paywall - 25 articles a month)
Remember not so long ago when the nation’s attention was riveted on how to protect students from school shootings? Now the pendulum of public opinion has swung in the opposite direction, and people are talking about removing school resource officers (SRO) from our public schools. The conversation has been reignited nationwide following the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
By CHRIS MCKINLEY, published in Daily Press (Metered Paywall - 1 article a month)
Virginians across the commonwealth deserve access to fairly priced consumer credit options, especially in today’s uncertain COVID-19 environment. Affordable access to credit helps consumer borrowers address important life events — both planned and unplanned — without creating additional financial hardships. Until recently, Virginia law “legalized” these additional hardships.
Chris McKinley is senior vice president of government affairs for Lendmark Financial Services in Lawrenceville, Ga.
By JENNIFER K. BERENSON, published in Richmond Times-Dispatch (Metered Paywall - 25 articles a month)
Spring is a time of commemoration for the Armenian people. On April 24, we remember the genocide of our ancestors, which began under the Young Turks regime in 1915 and resulted in the systematic murder of approximately 1.5 million people. On May 28, we remember the establishment of the first modern Armenian republic in 1918 — a fledging state that soon was incorporated into the Soviet Union.
Jennifer K. Berenson is a professor of religion at Roanoke College and enjoys researching her family history
By CHRISTIAN BERGMAN, published in Richmond Times-Dispatch (Metered Paywall - 25 articles a month)
As a geriatrician and attending physician in nursing homes, I have seen firsthand the havoc that COVID-19 can wreak. Out of a moral and ethical obligation, I became widely engaged in developing clinical guidelines. Our initial focus was on proven infection prevention strategies, testing and access to personal protective equipment (PPE).
Christian Bergman, M.D., is an assistant professor in VCU Health System’s division of geriatric medicine and is the medical director of Bonview Rehabilitation and Healthcare.
By KATHY DAVIEDS, published in Roanoke Times (Metered Paywall - 18 articles a month)
In the early 1960s I was bused for the purpose of desegregation from my kindergarten and first-grade elementary school to South Main Street School. Of course I did not understand why, just that I was going to another school. South Main Street School was a broken down older brick and cement two story building behind Shoppers Paradise, a gigantic, filthy version of Walmart today. But what a glorious second- and third-grade time I had there!
Davieds is a veterinarian in Roanoke County.
By SOPHIA A. NELSON, published in Roanoke Times (Metered Paywall - 18 articles a month)
Two years ago I penned a hopeful piece titled, “Can the Virginia Republican Party Rebound in the Age of Trump?,” outlining a pathway forward for Republicans in a once red state, turned purple, now very blue due to shifting racial demographics and ever changing political winds. As we look at the 2020 political landscape here in Virginia, after this week’s statewide primary, I think the answer to the question of can the GOP rebound with Trump atop the ticket in November, is a resounding no.
Nelson is a former Republican Congressional Committee counsel and the author of "E Pluribus One: Reclaiming Our Founders' Vision for a United America.' She lives in Northern Virginia.
By GORDON C. MORSE, published in Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)
OK, let’s talk about the monuments some more and quickly touch upon what comes next. The assault on the Civil War monuments, though dramatic, constitutes only the opening chapter of a far larger political story. In a sense, once you desecrate the monuments, the page turns. They have lost their claim, already tenuous in many quarters, on the present. You cross into a future that no longer, literally, resembles the past.
Gordon C. Morse began his writing career with the Daily Press editorial page in 1983, then moved across the water to write opinion for The Virginian-Pilot. He later joined the administration of Gerald L. Baliles as the governor's speechwriter
By SHEFALI HEGDE, published in Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)
On June 6, 2014, David Latham was killed in his home on W. 30th Street by Norfolk Police Officer Michael Edington, Jr. The police had been summoned by the Latham family to respond to Latham’s psychotic episode. Latham opened the door, a knife in his hands. Edington began shooting immediately.
Dr. Shefali Hegde is a resident physician in psychiatry living in Norfolk.
By BRYAN K. STEPHENS, published in Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)
My daily mission, and my constant focus, is to look for every means possible to set the conditions for businesses to succeed and bring good jobs and economic growth to our region. That means ensuring we have a well-trained and job-ready workforce, supporting policies that will improve our transportation system, and advocating for investments in infrastructure projects that are crucial to attracting new employers and helping existing businesses expand.
Bryan K. Stephens is president and CEO of the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce.
By WHYTNI H. KERNODLE, published in Washington Post (Metered Paywall - 3 articles a month)
Arlington is praised time and time again for its school system. But while Arlington, its schools, its criminal justice system and its housing options may be excellent for affluent, nondisabled whites, it is less so for everybody else. Our children’s black minds matter. Black Parents of Arlington (BPA) was created in 2017 as a social advocacy group and safe space for black parents.
Whytni Kernodle is a co-founder of Black Parents of Arlington.
By DON SCOTT, published in Washington Post (Metered Paywall - 3 articles a month)
At times like this, it’s our natural instinct to react to what we see now. However, with the horrific death of George Floyd, we have to look beyond today. It’s a difficult challenge because the pain is so real now. There is a message repeating itself with these senseless deaths of unarmed black men and women: White supremacy may kill you at any time. Most black people and white people instinctively know this. Will we finally turn pain to purpose?
Don Scott, a Democrat, represents Portsmouth in the Virginia House of Delegates.
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