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Welcome to the second edition of ‘Virginian of the week. This week, we interviewed Clara Cline, a Richmond-based illustrator. Her work can be found on her website, Facebook and Instagram. Tell us a little bit about yourself. What brought you to Virginia? I’m a lifelong Virginian, born and raised! I grew up in Newport News, went to the University…

Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a series profiling candidates running in competitive Virginia state legislature elections. When Sheila Bynum-Coleman lost her second consecutive bid for the Virginia House of Delegates in 2017, she thought to herself: “Hell no, I’m not doing this again.” Her urge to quit was fleeting. Today, she’s a…

Welcome to the latest edition of ‘Virginian of the week. This week, we interviewed Emma Manis, a Richmond-based stylist, blogger and content creator. Her work can be found on her website and Instagram, as well as her company’s website. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from originally and and what brought you to Richmond? …

This is part two of our series looking at the minimum wage. Check out part one here. If you’re a full-time minimum wage worker in Virginia earning $7.25 per hour, working 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, you earn $15,080 before taxes. While that’s technically over the poverty line for an individual ($12,140),…

Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got all the Virginia news you need to know coming right up. But First… If you live in Norfolk and find yourself craving Swedish meatballs or affordable-yet-questionable furniture, you’re in luck: A new IKEA opens its doors in the city on Wednesday. 15,000 shoppers are expected,…

This is the first of a multi-part series exploring the minimum wage in Virginia. Earlier this year, Virginia’s Republican-controlled General Assembly failed to raise the state’s minimum wage, which sits at $7.25 per hour. Indeed, while 20 other states raised their minimum wages this year, Virginia continues to lag behind, trailing even many deeply conservative…

Last week, a shooter in a Virginia Beach municipal building killed 12 people in about ten minutes. That’s more time than state lawmakers spent debating a bill in January that would have banned the extended-capacity magazine the shooter used to fire as many bullets as possible without having to reload. In January, just four members…

Trump has been holding daily coronavirus briefings since March 14 — and he’s told numerous lies in the process. Here are some of the worst ones from the past month.

Unless a deal is struck at the eleventh hour tonight, President Donald Trump will raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods to 25% on Friday, with additional tariffs on another $325 billion worth of goods coming “shortly.” Trump’s threat is the latest shot fired in a now year-long trade war between the world’s…