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AAA says that this holiday season is on track to be the third busiest travel year in over two decades; the Virginia Department of Corrections is investigating the death of an Augusta prison inmate; recent changes to voting in Virginia could influence outcomes; and Virginia prisoners won’t get the cards, drawings and photos they’re sent in the mail. Instead, they’ll get black and white photocopies ….This is the WMRA Daily for Friday, December 23rd...

A third party investigator will explore allegations brought by staff and volunteers of the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA; The General Assembly tells local school districts that they will NOT face a shortfall in state funding;Lawmakers are also considering bills that would change how electric utility companies are regulated in the commonwealth;And the Department of Corrections says that Virginia’s recidivism rate is the second lowest in the country

The Bridgewater College community marks one year since the shooting that killed two campus officers… Governor Youngkin removes from consideration two controversial candidates to serve on UVa’s governing board… A budgeting mistake that overpromised money to public schools has lawmakers scrambling to balance the books….

A new study shows that trains could be tapped as a potential source of electricity;Legislators approved more than $130 million to help farmers pay for pollution controls''Raises for state employees and teachers approved by committees in both the Senate and the House of Delegates'And Republican lawmakers killed an effort to ban convicted insurrectionists from public service jobs

Virginia emerges as a national leader in new solar development;The University of Virginia and Resilience Education team up to offer college credit to people who are incarcerated;The U.S. Forest Service extends the public comment period for the Mountain Valley Pipeline; And news from the General Assembly, including legislation referring to education, gambling and abortion

Nursing homes across the commonwealth continue to face staffing shortages; Roben Farzad shares his thoughts on the economic impact of 2022 with an eye to what lies ahead in 2023; and The Virginia Living Museum opened a new exhibit called the Conservation Command Center

Virginia’s State Grocery tax will be gone starting January 1st and Virginia’s minimum wage is rising by a dollar at the start of the new year; Governor Youngkin is still setting his sites on a run for the presidency; and the final installment on the Virginia Public Radio series examining the fee structures in place in Virginia prisons…

A federal judge wipes out most of the financial award in the huge civil trial against the white supremacists who rioted in Charlottesville in 2017… Some grad student workers at UVa are still waiting for late stipend payments… Full Disclosure’s Roben Farzad peers into the crystal ball for a look at the housing market in 2023….

Free remote mental health care services will expand to Charlottesville in January; the first study to test equestrian helmets for their ability to protect riders; and part one of a three-part series that looks closely at the fee structures in place in Virginia prisons…

Governor Youngkin proposes a 160-million-dollar investment in Virginia’s Behavioral Health System; Friday news dumps in 2022 and the practice going forward; and part two of a three-part series that looks closely at the fee structures in place in Virginia prisons…