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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?

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….