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Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads have lost more jobs than any other metro area with more than 1 million people
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Parker Barnes is a writer for Capital News Service, a program of Virginia Commonwealth University's Robertson School of Media and Culture. Students in the program provide state government coverage for a variety of media outlets in Virginia.
The General Assembly has taken up bills that range from requiring that people be 18 to get married to expanding the list of who can perform marriages to protecting same-sex marriage.
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