
Dredged material to rebuild two Chesapeake Bay islands
Poplar Island is growing by 2 million cubic yards a year in the Army Corps’ largest “beneficial use” of dredged material undertaken on the East Coast.

Poplar Island is growing by 2 million cubic yards a year in the Army Corps’ largest “beneficial use” of dredged material undertaken on the East Coast.

Congressman Morgan Griffith led a bipartisan letter signed by 47 members of Congress in support of preserving paper options for retirement documents.

Last year, 43 million Americans traveled for Memorial Day weekend. Expect a record-low travel volume this Memorial Day.

Recently, the Sitter & Barfoot Veterans Care Center located on Broad Rock Blvd. in Richmond took delivery of four gallons of badly needed hand sanitizer.

Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va. is leading an effort calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to release billions of dollars in funding to long-term care facilities.

Congressman A. Donald McEachin is leading a bipartisan letter to Secretary of Agriculture David Purdue requesting funding be issued for 1890 HBCUs to help the institutions can weather the financial consequences of the COVID-19 lockdowns.

The ACLU of Virginia and Charlottesville attorney Elliott Harding have reached a settlement agreement in a lawsuit initially brought on April 8 by Harding on behalf of 27 people who are incarcerated in Virginia prisons.

No one is safe. No one is immune. No one gets spared the anguish, fear and heartache of living under the shadow of an authoritarian police state.

Presswork: A Documentary describes the scope of RBS’s “Presswork” program—charting how the project began with RBS’s commissioning of a wooden rolling press.

To wait to reopen the economy until the virus was eliminated, which was not the original goal, would be ruinous to the livelihoods and well-being of many.
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