It has now been four weeks since Governor Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency to limit the spread of COVID-19. We are now in the days when we will see how well social-distancing has done to limit the number of person to person spread of a disease that is still new to the medical community.

This April 9 installment of the program mostly features comments from Governor Northam’s press briefing from yesterday. Northam and Virginia Health Commissioner Norm Oliver acknowledged that African Americans are being hit harder disproportionately. That's one area where the need for transparency is so crucial. We also hear a little about how Loudoun County is interpreting Attorney General Herring's opinion about local government activities during the pandemic.

But we also take a look at how Loudoun County is moving forward with land use decisions.