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WMRA Daily 5/28/20

The governor’s mask-wearing mandate goes into effect Friday – meanwhile, Virginia has now lost nearly 1,300 people to COVID-19, a death toll equivalent to the population of Edinburg…  The race for the next governor in 2021 just got a little more crowded…  A historic site north of Farmville that provided land and money for a school for African-American children during Jim Crow is now threatened by plans for a huge garbage dump….

Bob Leweke is WMRA's News Director and Morning Edition host.