More than a million Virginia taxpayers will not receive tax refund checks approved by Virginia lawmakers, according to a new analysis by The Commonwealth Institute, a nonprofit, Richmond-based thinktank. Many taxpayers - primarily lower-income Virginians - won’t...
Want to get involved in your community this week? Here's what's happening this week in Virginia: Northern Virginia / D.C. Congressional Town Hall with Reps. Don Beyer (D-8), Gerry Connolly (D-11) and Jennifer Wexton (D-10) - Sept 13 from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM -...
Virginia’s first responders experience suicidal thoughts at a rate of more than double the general population, and nearly one-in-four suffer from work-related depression, according to a new mental health survey conducted by the Fairfax County police, the U.S....
The chief executives of 145 of America’s biggest companies are calling on the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate to expand background checks to cover all gun sales and implement tougher “red flag” laws. In a letter addressed to the Senate, the CEOs of companies such...
Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a series profiling candidates running in competitive Virginia state legislature elections. Make sure to check out our first installment, featuring Sheila Bynum-Coleman. A former juvenile probation officer and...
The number of uninsured Americans increased in 2018, marking the first increase in the uninsured rate since the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, with experts laying at least part of the blame at the doorstep of the Trump administration and their efforts to...
Virginia’s poverty rate fell by 1% in 2017-2018, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The percentage of Virginians living in poverty dropped from 11.1% in 2015-16 to 10.1% in 2017-18, and the state’s poverty rate remained below the national...
The University of Virginia Medical Center is reviewing its policy of suing and garnishing wages of patients with outstanding medical bills, after a scathing report from Kaiser Health News revealed the breadth of the policy and its consequences. In the six years...
The Richmond City Council condemned the use of “conversion therapy” in the city on Monday, adopting a resolution first proposed by Mayor Levar Stoney. The council unanimously voted to approve the nonbinding resolution banning the dangerous and long-discredited...
Welcome to the latest edition of our Virginian of the Week series. This week, we interviewed Elizabeth Gray, a Lynchburg-based designer who specializes in hand lettering. Her work can be found on her Etsy store, Instagram, and Facebook. Tell us a little bit about...
