
McEachin co-sponsors landmark bill to reform policing in America
Congressman A. Donald McEachin today announced his co-sponsorship and support of the Justice in Policing Act.

Congressman A. Donald McEachin today announced his co-sponsorship and support of the Justice in Policing Act.

The U.S. Senate voted 80-17 Monday to take up the Great American Outdoors Act, a bill championed by Sen. Mark Warner that would address the $12 billion maintenance backlog at National Park Sites across the country.

Researchers at Virginia State University’s Agricultural Research Station were recently awarded $1.4 million in capacity building grants from the USDA.

The Virtual Torch Run begins today, and hundreds of athletes, law enforcement officers and community members will run, bike or walk #1900forSOVA.

The seven-day moving average of new COVID-19 cases in Virginia continues to decline. As do COVID-related hospitalizations and ICU admissions.

Grounding is an old movement that has spread all through general societies, customs, and profound practices for many years.

On June 2, 1930, The Mariners’ Museum and Park was incorporated, and the first meeting of the Board of Directors was held just three days after on June 5.

They can’t drive a tractor or milk the cows, but native pollinators put in a hard day’s work on Virginia farms.

For Gracie Litsinger, the recipe for teaching chemistry was a little creativity and a trip to her vegetable drawer.

The Climate Action Alliance of the Valley (CAAV) is a non-profit, grassroots group of volunteers in the Central Shenandoah Valley.
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