Some of the most competitive elections this fall aren’t for the General Assembly, they’re for local offices.
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Lynchburg’s controversial council member Misjuns shows how personality matters in politics
Internal emails show how he’s often clashed with fellow council members in very personal terms. Here’s what candidates for offices across the board can learn from that.
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Cumberland middle school students get a historical marker approved
Editor’s note: Lewis Longenecker, a history teacher at Cumberland Middle School, has worked with his classes to research and sponsor proposals for historical markers across Virginia. He had his class write this report on their latest project. Last school year, the National Education Association Foundation awarded a grant to Cumberland Middle School to fund a […]
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Another reason why Pittsylvania County lost out on the 8,100-job Hyundai plant: Georgia is a lot younger
Demographer says that “with more residents turning 65 than 18, an aging population will in the future likely make it more difficult to attract large new employers or for current employers to make major expansions.”
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Three possible outcomes to this year’s election, and the factors that would make each possible
Here’s what you might be reading the day after the election.
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Former Speaker Cox pushes internships as key to building bigger talent pipeline
If more companies offered internships, then Virginia might retain more college students rather than see them move out of state, he says.
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Richmond-Petersburg wins big in tech hub competition, New River and Danville confirmed as advanced manufacturing centers
10 takeaways from the regional tech hubs competition, or, why the Lynchburg-Southwest bid might never have had a chance.
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School board races are drawing write-in candidates, but history shows it’s almost impossible for them to win
Is this year’s political environment so different that write-ins could knock off some incumbents? We only have one recent example of that.
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Two-thirds of Virginians know someone who has had an abortion
That’s one of the takeaways from this week’s CNU poll. It also shows Republicans resistant to teaching about racism and Democrats divided on what schools should tell parents about transgender students.
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A Roanoke County store ‘gifted’ me marijuana that a lab test showed had unhealthy impurities
Businesses that engage in “adult share” of cannabis have sprung up across Southwest Virginia. In September, police raided 24 stores in what police said targeted allegations of money laundering and illegal narcotics.