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December 29, 2020
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** Holiday surge in D.C. area virus cases feared as vaccine plans move forward ([link removed])
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By REBECCA TAN AND RACHEL CHASON, Washington Post (Metered Paywall - 3 articles a month)

The holiday weekend in the Washington region was punctuated with the grim realities of the pandemic as new infections remained high Monday and housing advocates called for urgent economic relief. More than 15,000 people in D.C., Maryland and Virginia have tested positive for the coronavirus since Christmas Day, while 137 have died. Experts say that given the record amount of air travel over the holiday weekend, cases nationwide could start to surge again in early January. Covid-related hospitalizations remain high across the three jurisdictions, with more than 4,200 hospitalized patients as of Monday.
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** Fredericksburg-area hospitals request any show of gratitude for fatigued frontline workers ([link removed])
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By CATHY DYSON, Free Lance-Star (Metered Paywall - 10 articles a month)

When Mary Washington Healthcare officials resume their weekly town hall sessions on Tuesday, they’ll do more than update the community on the impact the record number of COVID-19 hospitalizations is having on staff and facilities. They’ll also be asking the public for support.
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** Assembly acts to fill new appeals court judgeships ([link removed])
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By PETER VIETH, Virginia Lawyers Weekly (Subscription required for some articles)

A long-dormant proposal to expand the Court of Appeals of Virginia suddenly became a flashpoint issue this month as General Assembly Democrats prepared to fill an expected four new judicial seats while Republicans derided the initiative as a liberal “pack-the-court” plan. At the request of the Senate Judiciary Committee Dec. 17, Virginia bar groups began scheduling applicant interviews and evaluations, setting a Dec. 30 deadline for applicants. There could be five vacancies to fill, since the 2020 Assembly never elected a successor to Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr., who took office as a federal judge in June 2019.
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** Obenshain Files Second Parole Board Bill ([link removed])
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By JESSICA WETZLER, Daily News Record (Metered Paywall - 5 articles a month)

With 15 days left until the 2021 General Assembly session begins, the agenda for one Valley lawmaker is focused on the state’s Parole Board. Sen. Mark Obenshain, R-Rockingham, filed a second piece of legislation addressing the Virginia Parole Board and its notice to victims when criminals are released. The legislation, which was filed on Dec. 22, will require the Parole Board to provide written or electronic notice within seven days of making any decision regarding the parole of a prisoner to the victim of the crime for which the prisoner is incarcerated.
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** Advocates Push for Paid Family Leave in Virginia ([link removed])
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By BEN PAVIOUR, WCVE-FM

Last year, 51 year-old Terrence Walker lost his wife, Tracy, to colon cancer. She died in their bedroom, a few doors down from the living room where they were married. Walker’s coworkers at Virginia Commonwealth University pooled enough leave to allow him some time to mourn. “I felt powerless to do anything about the decline of her life,” Walker said. “I never thought that she would die before the age of 50.”
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** Cybersecurity program coming to Louisa County High School ([link removed])
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By KATHERINE KNOTT, Daily Progress (Metered Paywall - 25 articles a month)

With help from an elite, big-money grant, Louisa County High School is launching a virtual cybersecurity program next school year. The Louisa school division is one of five school districts nationwide to receive $100,000 for the implementation of a cybersecurity academy. After two years, the division will have the chance to earn a $100,000 grand prize, competing against the other four finalists.
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** White’s Ferry started shuttling passengers across the Potomac River in the 1700s. It closed Monday. ([link removed])
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By JUSTIN WM. MOYER, Washington Post (Metered Paywall - 3 articles a month)

A ferry service that has shuttled travelers across the Potomac River since the 18th century closed Monday after a legal dispute with a former wedding venue that argued the service trespassed on its land. White’s Ferry, which has operated since about 1786, carried people, horses and vehicles over centuries between Virginia and Maryland. The ferry provided a passage vital to commuters in an area with long distances between bridges spanning the river. In a statement posted Monday to Facebook, White’s Ferry said it would cease operations “immediately.”
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** VPAP Visual Key Redistricting Votes ([link removed])
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The Virginia Public Access Project

Only two of the eight legislators named to Virginia's new Redistricting Commission voted for all four key pieces of legislation that led to a bipartisan process for drawing legislative districts. Most favored giving voters the right to decide whether to enshrine bipartisan redistricting in the state constitution. But Republicans and Democrats couldn't agree on the map criteria and rules that will guide the Commission's work.
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** From VPAP Maps, Timeline of COVID-19 in Virginia ([link removed])
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The Virginia Public Access Project

Our COVID-19 dashboard makes it easy to track the latest available data for tests performed, infections, deaths and hospital capacity. There's a filter for each city and county, plus an exclusive per-capita ZIP Code map. Updated each morning around 10:30 a.m.


** GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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** Richmond judge recuses himself from case involving state senator who has power over reappointing him to the bench ([link removed])
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By GREGORY S. SCHNEIDER, Washington Post (Metered Paywall - 3 articles a month)

A judge who presided over the arraignment of a state senator and then appeared before that senator to seek reappointment to the bench has recused himself from any further role in the criminal case. A retired judge has been appointed to handle the next hearing for Sen. Joseph D. Morrissey (D-Richmond), who is facing three misdemeanor charges of improper conduct at a polling place during the 2019 election.
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** 8 ‘citizens’ will help draw Virginia’s new political map. But how many will be average people? ([link removed])
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By ANA LEY, Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)

Half the people who will draw some of Virginia’s most important political boundaries for the next decade are supposed to be “citizen members” — everyday people unlikely to engage in the partisan gamesmanship that mars this arcane process. So far, the roughly 200 volunteers who have offered to represent average Virginians are exceedingly white, rich, older and male in a state with many young, female Black and brown voters. Experts worry that will lead to a panel that doesn’t fully reflect the state, and they hope a lot more people will sign up before the Dec. 28 deadline.


** STATE ELECTIONS
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** Low early voting turnout so far in special elections for two Virginia House districts, officials say ([link removed])
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By ANTONIO OLIVO, Washington Post (Metered Paywall - 3 articles a month)

Early voting is underway for the Jan. 5 special elections in two Virginia House of Delegates districts where the Democratic officeholders decided to leave their seats before their terms expired. Unlike the record numbers who voted early in this year’s presidential election, turnout in the special elections appears to be low, local election officials said Monday.
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** Early voting is under way in 2nd District House of Delegates special election ([link removed])
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By DANIEL BERTI, Prince William Times

Drive-thru early, no-excuse absentee voting is under way for the Jan. 5 special election to fill Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy’s 2nd District seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. The election is on a quick timeline so a new delegate can be seated before the Virginia General Assembly convenes on Jan. 13. Republican candidate Heather Mitchell faces Democratic candidate Candi King in the special election.


** STATE GOVERNMENT
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** Undocumented immigrants will soon be able to drive legally in Virginia — if they can access the DMV ([link removed])
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By LAURA VOZZELLA, Washington Post (Metered Paywall - 3 articles a month)

More than 300,000 undocumented immigrants are eligible to seek "driver privilege cards" after Jan. 1, when a new law will make Virginia the first Southern state to give that population a way to legally drive. The change could exacerbate backlogs at the Department of Motor Vehicles, which because of the coronavirus pandemic has sharply limited the number of people it lets through its doors.


** ECONOMY/BUSINESS
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** Workforce Council chosen for back-to-work initiative, partnering with RISE ([link removed])
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By SANDRA J. PENNECKE, Inside Business

The Hampton Roads Workforce Council has been selected as one of six agencies in the country to take part in an effort to develop innovative ways to rapidly retrain and refocus more than 25,000 displaced workers into higher paying jobs. The Future of Work Grand Challenge was created by four social impact organizations — New Profit, JFF, XPRIZE, Jobcase and MIT Solve — to respond to the dislocation of thousands of workers caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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** Shenandoah Valley Hemp LLC To Establish Facility in Elkton ([link removed])
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By JESSICA WETZLER, Daily News Record (Metered Paywall - 5 articles a month)

Shenandoah Valley Hemp LLC will invest nearly $3.3 million to establish an industrial hemp fiber processing and cannabidiol oil, or CBD, extraction facility in Elkton, according to Gov. Ralph Northam. Northam announced the investment in a press release Monday, stating Shenandoah Valley Hemp will do business under the name Pure Shenandoah. The new facility is located in the historic Casey Jones building in downtown Elkton off Spotswood Avenue.
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** Pure Shenandoah to build hemp processing, CBD oil extraction facility in Elkton ([link removed])
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By STAFF REPORT, Culpeper Star Exponent (Metered Paywall - 20 articles a month)

Shenandoah Valley Hemp’s Pure Shenandoah will invest nearly $3.3 million to establish an industrial hemp fiber processing and CBD oil extraction facility in the historic Casey Jones building in the town of Elkton, the office of Gov. Ralph Northam announced Monday. The venture will create 24 new jobs and purchase all of its industrial hemp from Virginia growers, worth nearly $5 million in payments to the farmers over the next three years.


** TRANSPORTATION
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** Historic White’s Ferry closes operations indefinitely ([link removed])
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By NATHANIEL CLINE, Loudoun Times (Metered Paywall - 5 articles a month)

Historic White’s Ferry has ceased its ferry operations between Montgomery County, Maryland, and White’s Ferry Road in Loudoun County. The ferry operation announced the decision Monday after a recent court ruling in Loudoun County concluded that no public landing exists on the Virginia shoreline at Whites Ferry Road and that the ferry is prohibited from landing in the Virginia location.
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** After Decade-Long Legal Battle, White’s Ferry Closes ([link removed])
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Loudoun Now

White’s Ferry, which has connected Loudoun with Montgomery County since six years after the Declaration of Independence was signed, announced it was ceasing operations on Monday following a court ruling that it could not legally use its landing in Virginia. On Nov. 23, Circuit Court Judge Stephen E. Sincavage found that there was no record documenting the creation of a public landing on the Virginia shore and awarded the owners of the Rockland Farm property, where the ferry lands in Loudoun, $102,175 in damages for trespassing, property damage and breach of contract.
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** Historic White's Ferry shuts down after 200 years of crossings ([link removed])
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By EMILY ZANTOW, Washington Times

White’s Ferry ceased operations Monday over a longstanding land dispute, bringing an end to more than 200 years of crossings between Maryland and Virginia on the Potomac River. A circuit court judge in Loudoun County “ruled that that no public landing exists on the Virginia shoreline at White’s Ferry Road and the ferry is prohibited from landing at that location in Virginia,” the ferry company said in a press release.
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** Hampton Roads Transit wants to test new ridesharing service in Virginia Beach, Newport News ([link removed])
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By ALISSA SKELTON, Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)

Virginia Beach and Newport News are considering whether to offer a new public transportation method similar to ridesharing after the pandemic is under control. This would be the first time any Hampton Roads local government tried using a ride-hailing app, comparable to Uber or Lyft, to transport passengers within 20 miles. But unlike the original ridesharing companies, riders would be directed to walk a few blocks to reach a pickup point to meet others heading to the same destination.


** CORONAVIRUS
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** Virginia reports 2,599 new COVID-19 cases ([link removed])
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By STAFF REPORT, Roanoke Times (Metered Paywall - 5 articles a month)

The Virginia Department of Health reported Monday that the state’s cumulative total for COVID-19 cases during the pandemic is now up to 3336,175, an increase of 2,599 from Sunday. There have been 4,861 COVID-19 deaths in Virginia, an increase of seven from Sunday.
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** If you’re thinking about a holiday party in Virginia, here’s the data on the coronavirus risks you’re taking. ([link removed])
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By ELISHA SAUERS, Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)

If you’re planning to attend a holiday get-together of five people in Eastern Virginia, there’s a 10% chance that someone around the punch bowl is infected with the coronavirus. Put another way, about one of every 10 such intimate gatherings will involve at least one guest who is positive for COVID-19. If you go to a party of 15 in the region, your odds of coming within range of the virus increase to about 27%. The analysis of how Christmas gatherings could raise the risk of spreading infections in the state comes from RAND Corp., which is providing data-based pandemic research to the Virginia Department of Health.
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** No, Virginia won’t lift its 10 p.m. booze curfew for New Year’s Eve ([link removed])
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By ANA LEY, Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)

Virginia won’t lift its booze curfew on New Year’s Eve, so as they’ve done time and time again in 2020, local bars are improvising. To comply with Gov. Ralph Northam’s ban on alcohol sales at restaurants and bars after 10 p.m., some are holding traditional Champagne toasts early, offering discounted to-go cocktail pouches and playing up day drink specials to lure crowds earlier than usual.
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** CDC partnership with local pharmacies identifies long-term care residents and staff for priority vaccinations ([link removed])
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By HOLLY PRESTIDGE, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Metered Paywall - 7 articles a month)

A partnership between the CDC and local pharmacies began Monday, offering on-site COVID-19 vaccinations for long-term care residents and staff. Across Virginia, 158,000 people have been identified as eligible to receive vaccinations through this program.
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** Older residents wondering when it's their turn for vaccines ([link removed])
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By CATHY DYSON, Free Lance-Star (Metered Paywall - 10 articles a month)

While local health officials appreciate how eager older people are to get vaccinated against COVID-19, it’s not time for them to roll up their sleeves. Those age 75 and older who aren’t residents of long-term care facilities are in Tier 1C, according to Rappahannock Area Health District officials. That means they’ll get vaccinated after those in Tier 1A and 1B.
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** The COVID-19 vaccine came out two weeks ago. To date, 214 area health workers have gotten it. ([link removed])
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By BILL ATKINSON, Progress Index (Metered paywall - 10 articles a month)

In the two weeks since the COVID-19 vaccine was released to the market, 57 frontline healthcare workers in Petersburg have received it, according to data released by the Virginia Department of Health. That total is the largest among the Tri-City area localities, but it is also not surprising, since Petersburg is home to the largest hospital in the immediate vicinity with Bon Secours Southside Regional Medical Center. Eligible personnel there began rolling up their sleeves earlier this week.
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** Petersburg has back-to-back 20+ new COVID cases, while Dinwiddie sets single-day record ([link removed])
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By BILL ATKINSON, Progress Index (Metered paywall - 10 articles a month)

The city recorded back-to-back days of 20+ new positive COVID-19 tests for the first time since the onset of the pandemic, according to the Virginia Department of Health. VDH said Monday that 21 new cases were reported in the city on both Dec. 27 and 28. That was also the third time this year that the city had 21 cases in one day.
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** Prince William County's first responders begin receiving Moderna vaccine ([link removed])
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By DANIEL BERTI, Prince William Times

Prince William County Emergency Medical Services staff began receiving the Moderna vaccine Monday, according to Prince William Health District Director Dr. Alison Ansher. Prince William County received 1,100 doses of the Moderna vaccine last week, and the county’s EMS personnel will be the first county employees to receive the vaccine, Ansher said in an email Monday morning.
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** County positivity at 21.7% as vaccines given to PMH staff ([link removed])
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By RANDY ARRINGTON, Page Valley News

Five days ago — a day that Page County reported 17 new cases of COVID-19 and only two days after a record-high 76 new cases — staff members at Page Memorial Hospital received the first round of the coronavirus vaccine. “Round one of COVID-19 vaccines is wrapped up. We’ll kick the New Year off with the second dose for our front-line and patient-facing staff. Thank you to our amazing staff, including our pharmacists, nurses, providers, administrators, and everyone who rolled up their sleeves and took a shot in the arm for the team. #worth it,” reads a Dec. 23 Facebook post on the PMH page.
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** Funeral homes find new ways to care for families — and for their own staffs ([link removed])
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By CASEY FABRIS, Roanoke Times (Metered Paywall - 5 articles a month)

Nurses, doctors and emergency responders are the people most often identified as being on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. But Mike Hamlar, president of Hamlar-Curtis Funeral Home & Crematory in Roanoke, believes that list is incomplete. “Funeral service professionals are first responders, too,” he said.
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** At Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail, 78 inmates test positive for COVID-19 ([link removed])
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By JULIA MARSIGLIANO, Williamsburg-Yorktown Daily (Metered paywall - 3 articles per month)

The Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail tested all its staff members and inmates for the coronavirus last week. The results? 78 inmates and seven staff members are positive for the virus. “All 78 inmates who tested positive are currently asymptomatic, this is in addition to the single inmate who tested positive for COVID-19 last week,” according to the VPRJ’s Facebook post on Dec. 24.
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** COVID-19 Outbreak At Regional Jail Continues ([link removed])
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By JESSICA WETZLER, Daily News Record (Metered Paywall - 5 articles a month)

One month into the COVID-19 outbreak at Middle River Regional Jail has resulted in more than half of the jail’s population testing positive and hundreds of inmates exposed. In response to the increased number of positive cases in the facility, the Verona jail conducted a retest for inmates and staff on Dec. 21, with results announced two days later. According to a press release from Wednesday, 464 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19 since Nov. 25. In addition, a total of 71 staff members have also tested positive since Nov. 13.


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** Richmond issues request for casino project proposals ahead of 2021 referendum ([link removed])
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By C. SUAREZ ROJAS, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Metered Paywall - 7 articles a month)

Eleven months ahead of a local referendum on whether to permit casino gambling, Richmond officials on Monday issued a request for casino resort development plans in the city. City officials said they want proposals that can accomplish about a dozen objectives aimed at creating economic and development opportunities while mitigating any potential adverse impacts on neighbors and city residents.
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** ‘Reforest Richmond’ Aims To Rebuild Urban Tree Canopy ([link removed])
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By ROBERTO ROLDAN, WCVE-FM

Over the last month, Reforest Richmond has distributed more than 8,000 Eastern Redbud tree saplings. Reforest Richmond is a campaign from the Richmond Tree Committee, an arm of the city council-created Green City Commission. The campaign mobilized more than 60 volunteers to hand out trees at dozens of distribution sites in November. Many of these sites were Richmond Public School facilities, intentionally picked because they’ve acted as free meal distribution sites during the pandemic.
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** Demolition begins at Tidewater Gardens for St. Paul’s redevelopment ([link removed])
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By GEENA AREVALO, WAVY-TV

Demolition has begun on a public housing complex in Norfolk. We’ve covered the controversial project at Tidewater Gardens for about a decade. Now, the first unit is about to fall at the corner of Fenchurch and Wood streets to make way for a new pump station that will support new homes in the St. Paul’s area.
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** Judge tells city to save any found documents sought in Unite the Right lawsuit ([link removed])
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By BRYAN MCKENZIE, Daily Progress (Metered Paywall - 25 articles a month)

A Charlottesville judge on Monday ordered the city to neither destroy nor delete any communications to and from a former city manager and a former police chief regarding the Aug. 12, 2017 Unite the Right rally until the merits of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit can be tried in court. Circuit Court Judge Richard E. Moore said he wants the city to preserve any communications that may still exist until the lawsuit, filed by Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler, comes for trial or is dismissed.
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** Strasburg town offices close due to COVID-19 cases ([link removed])
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By CHARLES PAULLIN, Northern Virginia Daily

Strasburg town offices will be “functional” but closed to the public for the next two weeks due to a recent increase in COVID-19 cases among town staff. Town Manager Wyatt Pearson said Monday afternoon eight staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. He declined to discuss their level of symptoms out of privacy concerns beyond saying they varied. Nobody has been hospitalized, he said.


** EDITORIALS
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** Minority Business Commission holds promise for Virginia ([link removed])
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Virginian-Pilot Editorial (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)

Virginia’s new Minority Business Commission will be getting to work at what should be an ideal time to change things for the better. There has long been a need to correct systemic disadvantages that keep minority business owners from having an equal chance of succeeding. Developments in 2020 have made that need even greater.


** COLUMNISTS
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** Lohmann: A historic school, a mega-landfill and a battle for 'justice' in Cumberland County ([link removed])
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By BILL LOHMANN, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Access to this article limited to subscribers)

The old schoolhouse doesn’t look like much now — weather-beaten and worn, it stood neglected for decades before an effort to save it kicked into gear two years ago, and now there also is the worrying possibility of having a landfill nearby — but it holds fond memories for Alfred L. Austin, who grew up on a Cumberland County farm 3 miles away. “I used to get up in the morning, milk six cows, walk to school, spend the day at school, then walk home and milk six cows again,” he said. “Among other things.”


** OP-ED
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** Howard: Help for navigating the tricky waters of online instruction ([link removed])
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By STEPHENIE HOWARD, published in Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)

I usually love teaching, but I found virtual teaching to be draining and uninspiring. Our learning platform did not allow students to be on-screen for class sessions. Like many other faculty, I found it difficult to connect with students behind the generic person icons. It did not help that many students were generally reluctant to participate in class.

Howard, Ph.D., LCSW is a professor of social work at Norfolk State University. She is also the president of Communities in Power, a nonprofit located in Norfolk.
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** Wenzel: Virginia should declare war on COVID-19 ([link removed])
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By RICHARD P. WENZEL, published in Richmond Times-Dispatch (Metered Paywall - 7 articles a month)

The latest analysis of University of Virginia statewide data reveals that the post-Thanksgiving surge is likely to push the projected peak in weekly cases to 98,000 during the first week in February. That’s 13 times higher than this past summer’s peak of 7,550 cases. If this happens, we’ll no longer be talking about a “third wave” of COVID-19; we’ll be facing a tsunami of infections that will overwhelm our state’s hospitals and cause misery and grief throughout the commonwealth.

Wenzel, M.D., is emeritus professor of medicine and epidemiology in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Deptartment of Medicine, VCU School of Medicine.
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** Morse: Race for Virginia’s thankless No. 2 job draws a crowd ([link removed])
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By GORDON C. MORSE, published in Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)

And then there were 12. Those are just the Democrats, too. The Republicans add another four. Sixteen candidates, as of this date, have declared themselves available for election to the august office of Virginia lieutenant governor. Must be one heck of a job, huh? Lots of perks? Lots of power?

After writing editorials in the 1980s, Gordon C. Morse wrote speeches for Gov. Gerald L. Baliles, then spent nearly three decades working on behalf of corporate and philanthropic organizations, including PepsiCo , CSX, Tribune Co. and Dominion Energy.


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