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The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors discusses possible solutions to what it calls a panhandling crisis… The state department of health relaxes its guidelines for those exposed to COVID-19… Today, the General Assembly will take up the governor’s 38 amendments to the state budget, so we have reporting on some of the more important amendments, and analysis of what’s going on in Richmond….

A new report says that efforts to make Virginia’s economy less reliant on the federal government aren’t working… A federal judge accelerates a new lawsuit that, however unlikely, seeks to force the state to have another round of elections for the House of Delegates this fall… A new report finds that Virginia could lose up to 42% of its tidal wetlands by 2100 due to sea level rise….

Under a new law, thousands of state inmates will be released early for good behavior, but the governor may delay some of those releases… Senator Tim Kaine applauds an apparent bipartisan deal on gun safety legislation… Irish musician and guitarist John Doyle performs in Charlottesville this week, and we’ll meet him and hear some music….

The governor pays a visit to our area to dedicate a new state park near Woodstock, and to announce state support for an agricultural expansion in Rockingham County… A new statewide approach to mental health aims to intercept crisis situations before they get out of hand… Some Republican candidates to represent Virginia in Congress are still repeating lies about fraud in the 2020 election….

Virginia’s members of Congress address the shortage of infant formula, and the quality of school lunches… Was abortion always such a controversial topic in Virginia? One historian says “no”… We retrace the steps of James Lindsey Smith, an enslaved man on Virginia's Northern Neck who in 1838 made his way to freedom in Connecticut….

Remembering D-Day, Title 9 turns 50, and a memorial service held in Winchester for former state Sen. H. Russell "Russ" Potts Jr. This is the WMRA Daily for Monday, June 6th

Shenandoah County’s school board splits on a controversial survey of residents on whether to restore confederate names to schools, so no survey, but the board will vote on the potential change next week… We take a deeper look at what’s in the proposed two-year state budget, now under consideration by the governor… A new system is being implemented in parts of Virginia to better respond to mental health emergencies….

Harrisonburg’s city council selects former councilman Richard Baugh to temporarily fill the seat vacated by George Hirschmann… A huge facility in Cumberland County that breeds beagles for medical research is shut down over allegations of mistreatment of the animals, and meanwhile Virginia strengthens state laws against animal cruelty… The General Assembly has finally passed a two-year budget, now on the governor’s desk, and we survey that and more in Virginia politics and government with Jeff Schapiro….

UVa Health is reducing some radiography procedures due to supply-chain problems… Thousands of applicants for unemployment benefits in Virginia were wrongly told by the VEC that they were overpaid… School boards around the state are being confronted by increasingly hostile parents, but they still have to conform to open meetings requirements….