Waynesboro City Council: What we’re thinking as May 19 approaches
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Waynesboro residents are being asked to make choices regarding the near-term future against a backdrop of an uncertain present reality.
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ACLU reaches agreement to remove witness requirement during COVID-19
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Virginia has reached a partial settlement agreement to remove the state’s “witness requirement” for voters whose health would be at risk if forced to comply with the requirement during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Morgan Griffith: Congress amid the coronavirus
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The coronavirus outbreak has upended many of the ways we go about our lives.
Staunton updates guidance to citizens with local election date change
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City of Staunton poll stations will be open on Tuesday, May 19. Applications for absentee ballots must be received by May 12 at 5 p.m. and can be submitted online, by U.S. mail or by emailing the Registrar.
Northam pushes local elections in Virginia back to May 19
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Gov. Ralph Northam, rebuffed by the General Assembly in his effort to move the scheduled May 5 local elections in Virginia to November, is having to settle for moving them back two weeks, to May 19.
Virginia Tech researchers develop new COVID-19 tests to combat backlogs
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Virginia Tech scientists have developed a new COVID-19 test and secured federal and state approvals to begin processing samples at on-campus labs in Blacksburg and Roanoke.
COVID-19, and where the race for the White House is headed
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The polls, and the current conventional wisdom, would have Joe Biden measuring the drapes in the Oval Office a few months hence. When actually, and you don’t want to hear this, we’re headed toward a landslide for Donald Trump that will rival Nixon-McGovern in 1972.
A reason not having to do with COVID-19 to move local elections
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Gov. Ralph Northam is using COVID-19 to push local elections from May 5 to November. Is it because of a legitimate public health concern, or is it just politics?
Northam signs justice, equality legislation
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Gov. Ralph Northam today signed new laws that repeal racist and discriminatory language from Virginia’s Acts of Assembly, give localities the ability to remove or alter Confederate monuments in their communities.
VCU, UR libraries publish free edition of ‘The Politics of Annexation’
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The libraries of Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond are working together to publish a new open-access edition of “The Politics of Annexation: Oligarchic Power in a Southern City.”
