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  • Governor Glenn Youngkin gave the thumbs up to President Donald Trump’s tariff policies Tuesday. The sudden withdrawal of Pat Herrity from the Republican primary for lieutenant governor means the GOP will have no statewide primaries in June. In 1963, eight Black Hanover County students led the charge to integrate the county’s schools. The City of Richmond is considering a ban on new tobacco and cannabis shops in most of the city.
  • Virginia’s Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, John Reid, hit the campaign trail this weekend, despite calls from Governor Glenn Youngkin to bow out. Governor Glenn Youngkin is expected to make several key environmental decisions this week.
  • Officials report progress making repairs to Harrisonburg’s water treatment plant, but water restrictions remain... Governor Youngkin ignores the House clerk’s rejection of some of his vetoes... Will changes in Washington cause more people to leave Virginia than arrive?....
  • Harrisonburg Public Works says the city’s water conservation restrictions will likely continue through the week… On the 71st anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, students, educators, and civil rights leaders unveil a new historical marker in Harrisonburg… Food insecurity is on the rise in the Shenandoah Valley....
  • Charlottesville has a new city attorney… Virginia’s House clerk rejects three of the governor's vetoes… Why is it so hard to find affordable housing in Virginia, and what might the candidates for governor do about it?....
  • A Harrisonburg man is on a hunger strike to protest Israel’s blocking of aid to Gaza… Leaders in Virginia’s cattle and forestry sectors react to President Trump’s trade war, and the pause in tariffs on Chinese goods… Virginia will revamp the state’s standardized K through 12 testing system….
  • Former Congressman Denver Riggleman returns from humanitarian work in Ukraine… A quarter-million Virginians could lose Medicaid coverage if President Trump’s massive budget bill passes… Jeff Schapiro surveys the week in Virginia politics….
  • By law, Virginia’s largest electric utility must stop emitting carbon by 2045. Community leaders and residents convened in Staunton on Saturday for an annual forum about recent federal policy changes. Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin is considering about a hundred bills that are on his desk right now, and his deadline to take action is at the end of the week.
  • Today is the first day of early voting for statewide and local primaries, Charlottesville City Schools acquire the former Federal Executive Institute property at no cost, Controversy surrounding the Republican nominee to be Virginia’s next lieutenant governor has been one of the top stories this week.
  • A small earthquake jostles central Virginia... The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank is on track to provide a record amount of food aid, in the face of cuts to federal assistance... There are new restrictions on debt collectors who go after money owed to hospitals and doctors....
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