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Governor Spanberger visits the Harrisonburg area to highlight economic development and transportation initiatives… Our candidate conversations continue with a look at how the 7th congressional district would change if voters approve the redistricting referendum… A statewide summit at Blue Ridge Community College brings together people from agriculture and academia to discuss improving Virginia’s food systems….

After a bizarre highway chase and crash in February, a man is indicted on federal weapons and drug charges… Virginia’s attorney general defends mail-in voting against the Trump administration… We tag along with one large animal vet as she makes her rounds in a profession that is in short supply….

Now that a longstanding cooperation between Harrisonburg public schools and Massanutten Technical Center is ending, city schools sponsor a new program with Blue Ridge Community College… A lawyer for the Shenandoah County School Board, enmeshed in a lawsuit over Confederate school names, speaks out… As the governor signs a flurry of bills, Jeff Schapiro reviews the week in Virginia politics….

Parties in the lawsuit against Confederate school names in Shenandoah County make their final arguments… Charlottesville grapples with providing more affordable housing… Meanwhile, the governor signs her first bills addressing affordability….

United Way offers free tax filing help leading up to the federal deadline… Weapons law violations at Virginia colleges and universities are way up in recent years… Could a vaccine help prevent opioid addiction and overdoses?

A new roundabout in Crozet aims for safer traffic, but not all residents are convinced… Power companies want to build a new transmission line in central Virginia, and neighbors are voicing concerns at public information meetings… One controversial bill before the governor would limit local restrictions on large solar farms….

Charlottesville’s school board declares it will not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement… A new study finds that Farmville’s main hospital is among ten in Virginia at risk of closure due to last year’s federal budget cuts… Meanwhile, data show that tens of thousands of Virginians are dropping health care coverage due to the end of ACA subsidies….

The governor signs legislation that will raise Virginia’s minimum wage to $15 an hour… Virginians will also soon have a right to contraception… Jeff Schapiro discusses that, plus the governor’s first veto, and more in Virginia politics….

Gas prices continue to climb in Virginia as Trump’s war in Iran stretches on… Governor Spanberger orders Virginia’s return to a multi-state voter partnership called ERIC… In the face of increasing federal restrictions on care for people in LGBTQ communities, we meet one Charlottesville-area physician who continues to specialize in their care….

With rain in the forecast, much of the WMRA region is still experiencing drought… Former Nexus executives get more grand jury indictments… As the campaigns for and against Virginia’s redistricting amendment move into high gear, Jeff Schapiro has a review of that and more in the week in politics….