
This week’s update on local hospital census: Good news across the board
COVID-19 hospitalizations are falling statewide and nationally. Our local hospitals are continuing to hold up well as we head to the second half of the month of February.

COVID-19 hospitalizations are falling statewide and nationally. Our local hospitals are continuing to hold up well as we head to the second half of the month of February.

AFP editor Chris Graham takes one more look back at #9 UVA’s win over North Carolina, then looks ahead to Big Monday at Florida State.

New research suggests that poor and climate-vulnerable regions of the world face greater financial and food-security hardships from widespread lockdowns than do more affluent, technology-laden areas.

Ryan Brindle, assistant professor of cognitive and behavioral science at Washington and Lee University, has received $104,500 grant from Jeffress Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research

A budget amendment introduced by Roanoke Del. Sam Rasoul to bring the University of Virginia’s Family Nurse Practioner Program to Wise was included in the amended House 2020-2022 budget.

Babylon Micro-Farms will invest $140,000 to expand operations and relocate to the City of Richmond.

Former Staunton City Council member Erik Curren joins the show to talk about his effort to call on the current City Council to issue a statement affirming the election of President Biden, denouncing the insurrection of Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol and committing to protect Staunton citizens from domestic terrorist groups operating locally.

Valley Guard Supply LLC will invest $1 million to establish a personal protective equipment manufacturing facility in the City of Harrisonburg.

The work of the University of Virginia-Community Working Group formed by President Jim Ryan in 2019 paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it is now set to resume, with the addition soon of a fifth group focused on public health.

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia was awarded a grant of $725,000 from Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation to support efforts to advance equitable postsecondary outcomes across the Commonwealth’s institutions of higher education.
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