
Virginia airports get relief from CARES Act
CARES Act funding will go to provide relief to 47 airports across the Commonwealth.

CARES Act funding will go to provide relief to 47 airports across the Commonwealth.

A group of senators are pushing for money in any future COVID-19 federal relief package to prop up news outlets. Any self-respecting news person would give you a terse two-word response to this overture: “Hell, no.”

The Senate voted Wednesday to pass a $2 trillion COVID-19 relief plan that provides for $1,200 in direct payments to most Americans, and includes billions of dollars in lending and grant programs designed to help businesses, workers and municipalities.

A change in a Department of Education funding formula could impact students in five Virginia localities.

House and Senate negotiators have come to an agreement on an emergency funding bill to combat the coronavirus.

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Saturday that he is endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden for president of United States.

Chris Bolling, late of Terry McAuliffe’s Common Good VA PAC, and former executive director of the Democratic Party of Virginia, has joined Team Bloomberg.

HUD announced $94 million in funding to support access to affordable housing in Virginia, including local efforts in Staunton and Waynesboro.

Eighty-four Virginia localities, including Augusta County, are eligible to apply for two programs that protect hemp producers’ crops in the 2020 growing season.

HUD funding will support the development of 11 housing units in Frederick County to provide affordable housing to lower-income elderly households.