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Tech briefs: Sen. Warner seeks comment on potential law for AI agents market
Plus: Energy Department gives Virginia Tech $2.8 million for a project to improve energy transmission; Smyth, Washington counties receive GO Virginia grant for shared industrial park.
Posted inOpinion
Rural Urban Bridge Initiative: When problems get solved, party becomes irrelevant
Before persuasion, before get out the vote, Democrats need to be working year-round in our own communities to build meaningful relationships.
Posted inNews Briefs
Headlines from across the state: Tech stocks among the most widely held by members of the General Assembly; more …
From elsewhere: NATO showcases cooperation at a major exercise in Hampton Roads. Tract planning 872-acre data center campus in Goochland. As SCOTUS limits trans kids in sports, LGBTQ Virginians find competition in Ballroom.
Posted inWeather
Cooling centers and other help available as temperatures rise
Localities across Southwest and Southside have opened cooling shelters or are offering other assistance.
Posted inEconomy
Stack Infrastructure says it’s moving forward with AI data center in Pittsylvania
With state tax exemptions for data centers in place, the Colorado-based company plans to locate in Southside.
Posted inHealthcare
A decade ago, Roanoke leaders took a chance on a new way of helping people with addiction. Today, the Hope Initiative serves nearly 1,000 people a year.
The Hope Initiative focuses on addiction as a health crisis instead of a police matter. It helps connect people in active drug addiction to treatment resources nearby.
Posted inOpinion
Now that Virginia has a budget, 5 questions about what happens next
The adoption of a budget ends one chapter and opens another. Here are the highlights.
Posted inCardinal News 250
Jefferson wanted to condemn slavery in the Declaration of Independence. Congress said no.
Jefferson also wanted to condemn Lord Dunmore’s Emancipation Proclamation that offered freedom to Virginia’s slaves in exchange for fighting with the British, but Congress watered that down to the point where you wouldn’t recognize it unless you knew the back story.
Posted inPolitics
General Assembly passes Spanberger’s budget amendments, biennial budget is finalized
The House and Senate approved all 14 of Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s amendments to the spending bill in a move that brought an end to the nearly half-year-long budget uncertainty.
