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Today is the deadline for environmentalists to object to the new federal budget agreement that clears the way for the Mountain Valley Pipeline… Critics of the superintendent of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind start a petition to oust her… A new, multi-faceted art space comes to Staunton…

A federal judge rules against the Fishersville-based company Nexus in a major lawsuit… Virginia is the eighth state to pull out of a national, bipartisan voting collaborative that’s been the target of right-wing conspiracy theories… Jeff Schapiro reviews the week in politics and state government….

Two members of Democratic Congressman Gerry Connolly's staff are hospitalized after being attacked by a man with a baseball bat at their Fairfax office… Experts say Virginia’s exit from a national, bipartisan voting data collaborative could leave the state with less accurate voter rolls… Full Disclosure’s Roben Farzad explains why most of Virginia’s public universities are raising tuition, after years of holding the line….

A man charged with attacking two staffers for Representative Gerry Connolly with a baseball bat is also being charged with a hate crime in an earlier attack… By one estimate, Virginia would stand to lose 35,000 jobs if the federal debt ceiling is breached… We meet the helicopter pilots who use giant flying saws to trim vegetation along power lines in rural areas….

An animal rights group says a farm in Virginia that raised chickens for Tyson Foods mistreated its animals… Virginia’s Teacher of the Year is a history teacher at John Handley High School in Winchester… Virginia’s lawmakers are among those worried about a potential default on the nation’s debt, and Jeff Schapiro joins us to discuss that and more in the week in state politics….

A UVa task force finds that late payments to graduate students in January were mostly due to miscommunication over deadlines... A federal judge in Virginia rules that the government cannot bar 18- to 20-year-olds from buying handguns from licensed dealers... Virginia’s Republican Attorney General defends his decision not to join the Republican-led lawsuit against the abortion pill mifepristone....

North Carolina's new abortion ban is changing the dynamic around the procedure in Virginia, where abortion providers are also suing to preserve access to mifepristone… The Harrisonburg Citizen takes home a bundle of awards for its coverage… The UVa Cancer Center gets funding to study a new approach to treating leukemia….

VMI's chief diversity officer resigns after nearly two years of constant backlash from White alumni and students… Senator Tim Kaine says he’s pushing the Postal Service to improve mail delivery in areas that are still not getting proper service… Jeff Schapiro surveys the week that was in Virginia politics and government….

Environmentalists are dismayed that the debt ceiling agreement would approve all the remaining permits to complete the stalled Mountain Valley Pipeline… Meanwhile, members of Virginia’s General Assembly are at a standstill with their budget amendments, and the deadline is just a month away… A centuries-old document discovered in Rockingham County reveals an assassination attempt against George Washington….

Virginia joins other Republican-led states in sending National Guard troops to the border with Mexico… The primary contest between incumbent Senator Creigh Deeds and challenger Delegate Sally Hudson near Charlottesville is drawing more votes than any other in the state in early voting… Albemarle County plans to buy a large tract of land to attract new defense department contracts to the area….