
VMI Baseball announces incoming recruiting class
VMI baseball announced its incoming class on Wednesday, a class that will matriculate later this month and begin play in the 2019 season.

VMI baseball announced its incoming class on Wednesday, a class that will matriculate later this month and begin play in the 2019 season.

Today, the U.S. Senate passed, on a bipartisan 86-11 vote, legislation that includes Virginia priorities championed by U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA).

Gov. Ralph Northam has announced participants in the 2018 Governor’s Fellows Program, which offers rising college seniors, graduating seniors, and graduate students an opportunity to gain valuable firsthand experience working under Cabinet secretaries and alongside staff in the Office of the Governor.

U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine have cosponsored the Hemp Farming Act of 2018, a bipartisan bill that would legalize and clearly define hemp as an agricultural commodity, removing it from the list of controlled substances.

The American Farm Bureau Federation is backing a measure that would allow U.S farmers to tap into the hemp market—a potentially sizeable market for ingredients derived from industrial hemp.

Born into a segregated southern world, Rita Wilson had attended local schools that were set apart for African Americans. She later worked as a domestic for white families, which was one of the few jobs available to local African American women.

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) issued the following statements after Congress approved a $1.3 trillion spending bill to fund the federal government through September 30, 2018.

Governor Terry McAuliffe announced awards totaling $499,521 in grant funding for six agriculture-related projects aimed at providing assistance and creating new economic opportunities for farmers and agriculture organizations across Virginia.

Governor Terry McAuliffe announced $196,000 in funding for five collaborative efforts in Virginia through the Building Collaborative Communities program.

Industrial hemp cultivation was once common in Virginia but has been banned for the past 80 years.
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