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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…

Hunger is way up in the U.S., and the problem has gotten even worse in Virginia, according to one new report… The General Assembly will convene next week, and one item on the agenda is a new approach to treating substance-use disorder… Virginia is drawing closer to Governor Youngkin’s goal of having a law enforcement officer in every public school….

Staunton’s mayor resigns unexpectedly, but in Harrisonburg Mayor Reed is selected to continue in that role… Dominion Energy begins to release easements along the path of the cancelled Atlantic Coast Pipeline… The General Assembly gets ready to consider the future of casinos in Virginia….

Thousands gather to honor the memories of slain UVa students at a service in Charlottesville… We have a preview of the General Assembly’s next session, including bills on uranium mining, transgender student athletes, and same-sex marriage… The Forest Service conducts yet another environmental study of the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s impact on the Jefferson National Forest….

Both UVa students injured in last week’s shooting are now out of the hospital, and police continue to search for the gunman’s motive… The toll that gun violence takes on local communities goes beyond the recent shootings at UVa, and Randi B. Hagi explores that in the first of two reports... We also examine the increasing costs of Virginia’s prison population as it ages, in a state without parole for most inmates….