
Northam appoints Eric J. Reynolds as Virginia’s first children’s ombudsman
Gov. Ralph Northam announced this week the appointment of Eric J. Reynolds as Virginia’s first director of the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced this week the appointment of Eric J. Reynolds as Virginia’s first director of the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman.

Attorney General Mark R. Herring has joined a coalition of 25 attorneys general in calling on the U.S. Senate to pass legislation that protects individuals from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

The House voted 247-178 on Wednesday to pass the Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Act of 2021, which restores critical protections in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and makes it easier for employees to prove when they are a victim of age discrimination in the workplace.

Radio host and SchillingShow.com founder Rob Schilling is initiating a lawsuit against Albemarle County election officials after he was confronted while attempting to vote in the June 8 primary without a mask.

Gov. Ralph Northam has proclaimed June as Pride Month in Virginia to celebrate the Commonwealth’s LGBTQ+ communities, their achievements and contributions, and their fight for inclusion and equality.

Jonathan Alger, president of James Madison University, is the winner of the 2021 ACE Council of Fellows/Fidelity Investments Mentor Award.

You’re driving along and you see a pair of flashing blue lights in your rearview mirror. Whether or not you’ve done anything wrong, you get a sinking feeling in your stomach.

The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News for the week ending May 23 follows.

Just as we get a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, there might be a chance of crawling out of this totalitarian cesspool in which we’ve been mired, we get kicked down again.

AAA honored Chloe Cleveland, a fifth-grader at Battlefield Elementary School in Spotsylvania County, as this year’s Outstanding School Safety Patroller in Virginia.
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