
Northam announces appointments to three cannabis oversight boards
Gov. Ralph Northam today announced appointments to the three newly-created boards responsible for overseeing the legalization of recreational marijuana in the Commonwealth.

Gov. Ralph Northam today announced appointments to the three newly-created boards responsible for overseeing the legalization of recreational marijuana in the Commonwealth.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced additional appointments to his administration this week.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced this week the 2021 Governor’s Fellows Program participants.

Congressman A. Donald McEachin announced more than $95 million in emergency funding for colleges, universities, and students in Virginia’s Fourth Congressional District under the American Rescue Plan.

State-run Community Vaccination Clinics will begin offering the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to adolescents aged 12-15 on Friday.

Two major challenges are at the forefront of society this year: COVID-19 and social equity disparities.

The U.S. Census of Agriculture, which has been surveying the gender, race and ethnic origin of principal farm operators since 2007, reported more than 36 percent of American farmers were women in 2017.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced additional appointments to his administration on Friday.

Fourth District Congressman A. Donald McEachin announced Shea Dowling, an eighth-grade student at Albert Hill Middle School in Richmond, and Tobi Ojo, a junior at Grassfield High School in Chesapeake, as the winners of his second annual Black History Month Essay Contest.

Thirty-four Virginia Union University students were arrested following a peaceful sit-in protest at the whites-only lunch counter of Thalhimers Department Store in Downtown Richmond on Feb. 22, 1960.
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