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Political anxiety runs high, Virginia launches a program that will pay farmers and landowners who reduce pollution, and we recap the week in politics and state government.

A winter storm has schools closed… What will Governor Youngkin’s energy legacy be?... New state legislation may make it easier for religious organizations to donate property for affordable housing….

Page County deputies shoot and kill a woman after a welfare checkup… For the first time, EMU names a Black woman as president… Jim Ryan reflects on life one year after resigning as UVa’s president….

Governor Youngkin sends 38 budget amendments back to the General Assembly… LEGO comes to Virginia… Former Charlottesville police chief RaShall Brackney is suing the city for $10 million over her firing last year….

Advocates for the right to abortion rally in Harrisonburg… The director of the Jefferson Madison library system says changing the name will be an uphill battle… Residents of Harrisonburg get to weigh in on a proposed widening of I-81 through the city….

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….

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…

Early voting begins today on a referendum to redraw Virginia’s congressional districts… Federal grant money is helping to fix an ongoing sewage problem in Albemarle County… Jeff Schapiro surveys the week in Virginia politics….

Some residents in Louisa County are again under a boil-water notice after an electric outage… DMV says watch out for a new text messaging scam… Republican Terry Kilgore is the new minority leader in the House of Delegates….

VMI’s board of visitors selects new leadership... A graduate of UVa’s class of 2019 is found dead on Grounds from a self-inflicted wound... Governor Youngkin again vetoes abortion-related legislation....