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We meet volunteers at a local nonprofit that helps low-income residents fix up their homes... A group of JMU journalism students is in Milwaukee this week, covering the Republican National Convention... Contrary to claims made at that convention, crime is down significantly across the country, including in Virginia, and we look at the numbers....

After weeks of wrangling, the General Assembly passes a legislative fix to a veterans’ benefits bill… A now gone structure in Charlottesville that was listed in the Green Book will be commemorated with a state historic marker… Public opinion polls in Virginia are swinging Trump’s way, and as the governor returns from the Republican National Convention to sign the veterans bill, Jeff Schapiro discusses the week in Virginia politics….

Local areas will get millions from the state to expand broadband access… Augusta County rejects a special use permit for a large solar project in the Stuarts Draft-Lyndhurst area… Virginia gets funding to capture methane emissions, but environmental groups want more….

Governor Youngkin urges Virginians to use caution as Tropical Storm Debby approaches the commonwealth… ICE settles an ACLU lawsuit, freeing two detainees who had been held despite a judge’s order at the Farmville Detention Center… We continue our series on Shenandoah County school names, with the memories of some students who helped integrate the county’s schools in the 1960s….

Tropical Storm Debby wallops Virginia, with tornado watches and flash flood warnings… But all the rain could be good for farmers… We wrap up our week-long series on Shenandoah County school name changes with a look at history’s legacy….

Three people are dead and one injured after a train collided with a van in Stuarts Draft… Shenandoah National Park officials lift a ban on fishing… Some Virginia Republicans are supporting Kamala Harris for president, part of a long Virginia tradition of crossing party lines….

Virginia moves closer to banning cellphones in public schools… We’re no longer the worst state in the country for mail delivery, but we’re still pretty bad… Jeff Schapiro surveys the week in Virginia politics and state government….

The governor touts a big budget surplus, but critics say Virginia continues to underfund education… Solar power faces some headwinds… We take a look at the 15-year-old Virginia law that banned smoking in most public places, and why it’s not being enforced everywhere….

Charlottesville could become the next Virginia city to use ranked choice voting in its local elections… It’s likely there will only be one debate between Virginia’s candidates for U.S. Senate… A federal judge finds that Hanover County’s school transgender policies, following the governor’s guidelines, violate the rights of a would-be student athlete….

Even with recent rains, much of area is still under drought conditions... Nearly a quarter of those on Medicaid in Virginia before the pandemic have been removed from the program... People who are incarcerated in Virginia will soon start getting access to college classes....