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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….

Litter and vandalism are increasing problems in Shenandoah National Park… Governor Youngkin vetoes a bill that would have gone after loud cars… Meanwhile, the governor’s political team says he raised a record amount of money in the first quarter….

Longtime Valley State Senator Emmett Hanger says he’ll retire rather than run for re-election in a newly drawn district… A new lawsuit challenges Governor Youngkin's process for deciding which felons can vote… As the General Assembly prepares to return to Richmond to consider the governor’s vetoes and amendments, we get some analysis from Jeff Schapiro of the Richmond Times-Dispatch….

The man accused of bringing a knife into an elementary school in Page County last Thursday was apparently a pre-approved volunteer to help with a school fundraiser… Dinwiddie County’s prosecutor asks the federal government to help investigate the death of Irvo Otieno… Governor Youngkin leaps to Donald Trump’s defense….