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High marks for air quality in our area, from the American Lung Association… A new COVID test from a company based in Charlottesville… What will the General Assembly do with the governor’s amendment to a bill limiting solitary confinement?

Short jail sentences proposed for two Virginia Beach men involved in the January 6 riot, a gunman opens fire in the nation’s capital, and the American Lung Association says our area has some of the cleanest air in the country…

The United States Supreme Court allows a Northern Virginia governor’s school to continue its new admissions policy – for the time being, the General Assembly reconvenes on Wednesday for a special session, including consideration of several amendments. One from Governor Glenn Youngkin involves marijuana, and a new book sheds possible light on the mystery surrounding the murder of two women in Shenandoah National Park in 1996.

Attorney General Jason Miyares calls for greater transparency on the bench, house of Delegates Minority Leader Eileen Filler-Corn faces a challenge from inside her party, the Cheroenhaka Nottoway Tribe marks the 309th year of its treaty with the English Crown, and people with several non-governmental and non-profit organizations talk about the hundreds of Afghan refugees who have settled locally.

Charlottesville police continue to arrest Black people in numbers disproportionate to their population... Today is Earth Day, so we’ll take a look at an effort to turn a landfill into a garden in Shenandoah County, and we’ll review how Virginia’s decades-old fight against litter is going… And it’s Friday, so of course we have our weekly review of Virginia politics….

Two separate reports indicate that Virginia is moving in the wrong direction on matters of race… Reports of anti-semitism are up, and another report shows that Black and Latino drivers are more likely to be stopped by police than their white counterparts… We investigate what might have been behind a wave of false school threats in Virginia, and around the country, in September….

A Civil War re-enactor pleads not guilty in Charlottesville to planting a pipe bomb at the Cedar Creek Battlefield in 2017… Throughout the Valley and the Piedmont, a plant called Autumn Olive is choking out native East Coast species… We have a conversation with our October Books & Brews featured author, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson….

A lawsuit has prevented the melting down of the Robert E. Lee statue removed from a Charlottesville park last year, but the trial won’t begin until February… Republican former Congressman Denver Riggleman, a critic of the MAGA wing of the party, throws his support behind Democrat Abigail Spanberger… Doula services are now covered by Medicaid in Virginia….

Local election officials continue to work through a backlog of voter registration files caused by a technical glitch… We review the week in Virginia politics with Jeff Schapiro… Some of the businesses destroyed by a huge natural gas explosion in Harrisonburg two years ago have rebuilt, and redefined themselves….