"Where the money will ultimately end up is also unclear."
“No arrests, no charges made, nothing,” she told News4.
"Richmond's 5-cent plastic bag tax has generated nearly $115,000 in revenue and taxed 2.8 million bags since launching in January, but the city doesn't know how many retailers are paying it — or which ones."
"Richmond officials stopped following a City Council-approved transparency law seven years ago. After an earlier delay on proposals to address the issue, the Council still hasn’t decided what to do about it."
“…those are millions of gallons of water being diverted away from our rivers and streams during the peak of summer, when flows are the lowest and water is most needed. It’s especially concerning when most of the state is in a severe drought, as we are now…” #valeg
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"Radford is a city that cannot tax enough of its own ground to pay for itself, so it went into the electricity business and ran its government on the markup."
"Both suits allege that Sands Anderson, whose fees both Ferrell-Benavides and Jones had questioned, made accusations that led to her firing and his suspension."
"Dangerous Harbor, a partnership between Virginia State University, Virginia Tech...represents the first large-scale effort to make accessible stories of escape from enslavement and servitude in the 17th-century Chesapeake."
"And this is bulldozing through battlefields, historic markers, people's personal properties, generational farms," said property owner Anna Ahlbin.
DEQ to hold final hearing on Synagro permit renewal that would allow spreading of biosolids on 2,500 acres of Orange County farmland
For the first time Monday, Virginia State Sen. Louise Lucas answered questions about the FBI raid on her private business and her district office. She said it’s awfully coincidental that it came on th...
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The city has collected nearly $115,000 in revenue, but the state hasn't given them retailer-level data yet.
We wanted to learn for ourselves how much water local communities have promised to Amazon for data center cooling in our part of the state, the region between Northern Virginia and Richmond, including...
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Part one of two: How a single factory quietly became the thing holding up a small Virginia city’s budget.
Mayor L.C. Jones has sued the law firm Sands Anderson and council member Aaron Rawls on counts including defamation. Aretha Ferrell-Benavides’ suit against the city of Martinsville, Sands And…
In 1673, a Black woman named Pendall escaped with her son from the Accomack County plantation of Tabitha Browne, where they were enslaved. They stole a boat and crossed the Chesapeake from the Eastern...
