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Renters and their advocates in Waynesboro want better regulation of properties that are often substandard for tenants… JMU follows the new governor’s lead on releasing staff from vaccine requirements, while UVa goes in the other direction… Meanwhile, Governor Youngkin makes his first appearance before the General Assembly…

Glenn Youngkin is the new Governor of Virginia, and immediately gets blowback for a series of executive orders on Day 1… Hundreds of former employees of the Environmental Protection Agency urge the Virginia Senate to oppose Youngkin’s pick for Virginia's next secretary of natural resources… Is the omicron variant of the coronavirus causing less severe disease among patients than delta did?

In a bitterly divided vote, Staunton city council forces out its city manager… The Wildlife Center of Virginia rescued a record number of animals last year… Governor Youngkin chooses a staffer from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to lead Virginia’s diversity efforts…

Governor Youngkin rolls out a new plan to address the vaccination rate and surge in hospitalizations in Virginia… Members of the General Assembly fight back against medical misinformation… In just his first week in office, Youngkin has already picked a few fights on several of his campaign promises, and we’ll take a look at that in our weekly politics chat….

Lots of General Assembly news this week, as Democrats kill a proposal by Republican Senator Mark Obenshain to end collective bargaining for public employees, Republicans work to roll back the minimum wage hike, and one bill would go after predatory loans… We also have the latest on the hedge fund that’s going after many of Virginia’s newspapers….

Classes at Bridgewater College are cancelled the day after a gunman kills two campus officers… Parents of students with disabilities from Albemarle County join a lawsuit against Governor Youngkin over his executive order ending the mask mandate in schools… Democrats in the General Assembly try to block Youngkin’s controversial nomination of a former Trump official for the state’s top environmental office….

By one measure – hospitalizations – omicron is hitting children harder than at any other time during the pandemic… How will the new attorney general’s opinion that Virginia’s public colleges may not require that their students get vaccinated for COVID-19 affect those institutions that have that requirement, including UVa?… Divisive issues including vaccine requirements, voting access, and teaching about race in schools are debated in the General Assembly….

Efforts to limit the influence of Dominion fail again in the General Assembly… JMU is again offering a popular, free, tax preparation service… We meet musician Gina Chavez….

Prosecutors open their case in court against two people suspected in the disappearance of three-year-old Khaleesi Cuthriell… UVa begins lifting some COVID-related restrictions… We have the latest from the General Assembly, and our weekly analysis of Virginia politics….

VMI says it will change its student-run honor court to make it more fair to cadets… In one of three lawsuits challenging Governor Youngkin’s repeal of mask mandates in schools, one judge rules against the repeal and says the mandates should stay in place for now… Meanwhile, lawmakers address problems with counting absentee ballots, but a measure to establish minimum staffing standards for nursing homes fails to advance….