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The General Assembly gavels into session, Governor Northam delivers his final address, and the new Republican Speaker of the House, from the Shenandoah Valley, takes issue with what Northam had to say about Virginia’s history… We conclude our series on Charlottesville city government with a look ahead to what the turmoil of the last few years may cost taxpayers… We have a report on the latest changes at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton….

As COVID-19 cases again spike, Governor Northam issues an order that should increase the number of hospital beds… We launch a series on the problems with Charlottesville city government… We have a look at Virginia’s long, complicated history with tobacco….

In a rare partnership, UVa Health and Augusta Health team up to plead with the public to get vaccinated and boosted, and they say they are overwhelmed with unvaccinated patients… Yet again, a federal appeals court strikes down a permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline… Gemeinschaft Home in Harrisonburg receives a major federal grant to triple its capacity to serve women avoiding incarceration….

A Luray woman is charged with threatening gun violence at a Page County school board meeting over student mask policy… Meanwhile, Governor Youngkin’s order rescinding those school mask mandates takes effect today, but is it legal?... Shenandoah National Park will limit the number of people who can visit one of its most popular sites, Old Rag, which has been overrun with hikers….

As some of the larger school systems in northern and eastern Virginia sue Governor Youngkin over his directive lifting Virginia’s mask mandate, some schools in our area say they will keep their masking requirements in place for now… Augusta Health is keeping some COVID patients out of the hospital using monoclonal antibodies… Meanwhile, one of the governor’s big campaign promises was to veterans….

Publicly-funded mental healthcare providers are short-staffed and their workforce is aging, and we explore how they persist in the face of those challenges… We review activity in the General Assembly, which advances an anti-hazing measure called “Adam’s Law,” considers legislation that would help local newspapers, and rejects a proposal from the new attorney general that would have broadened his power….

The state’s attorney general offers a bit of a break for students who have defaulted on their school debt… A new survey sheds more light on the “Great Resignation”… We survey the week in Virginia politics and governance….

Today’s theme is Virginia’s schools, and we have news about mask mandates, student testing, a police presence in elementary schools, and school lunches affected by supply chain issues… We also have an analysis if the new governor’s business background, and the role that might play in his term as governor….

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?