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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….

A local man is charged with attempted murder after eight people were injured by gunfire in Harrisonburg early Sunday… Members of Governor Youngkin’s administration pressed officials to cancel a no-bid state contract awarded to the ad firm the governor used during his campaign… Hundreds of abandoned boats litter Virginia’s waterways….

After declining over the summer, gas prices are back up in Virginia… A new poll finds that Virginia voters oppose the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but there’s also narrow support for some new restrictions on abortions… Black residents in Cumberland County try to save Pine Grove as a cultural center, one of many schools built during segregation to help educate young Black students….

Advocates for the right to abortion rally in Harrisonburg… The director of the Jefferson Madison library system says changing the name will be an uphill battle… Residents of Harrisonburg get to weigh in on a proposed widening of I-81 through the city….

One abortion provider along Virginia’s border with Tennessee will move into the Old Dominion in order to continue providing services, but one Republican state senator has already announced legislation that would outlaw abortion in Virginia… Governor Youngkin’s order requiring state employees to return to the office is adding to tensions at the Department of Health… A flour mill in Nelson County gets state money to boost infrastructure for locally sourced food….