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  School safety was at the top of everyone’s minds this legislative session. Mallory Noe-Payne has this roundup of what passed and what didn’t.

This spring, colleges in Virginia will be voting on whether to raise tuition for next school year. The latest state budget has a big incentive for them not to. Mallory Noe-Payne reports.

Now that Democrats have taken control of the House of Representatives, Tidewater-area Congressman Bobby Scott has become chairman of a key committee. And, he’s using that position to help high-poverty schools. Michael Pope has details.

For now, Virginia doctors will be writing prescriptions for Virginia patients. But, that could change next year. Michael Pope reports.

Partisan gerrymandering in Virginia politics may soon be a thing of the past. But as Michael Pope reports, the long fight to get there still has at least another year to go.

It was a quiet end to anything but a quiet 2019 General Assembly session. Mallory Noe-Payne reports.

New research indicates that at least one Chesapeake Bay species could benefit from warmer temperatures… and the school superintendent in Halifax County has seen more than enough student videos on social media. Those have been among the most read stories over the past week at the Virginia Public Access Project’s Va. News link. More now […]

In 1960 a group of teenagers from Virginia Union University staged a sit-in at a downtown Richmond department store. Thirty-four of them were arrested. As Mallory Noe-Payne reports, the group was honored Friday and their records were finally expunged.

Lawmakers in Richmond are putting the final touches on a budget deal as the General Assembly session comes to an end this weekend. Michael Pope reports.

A last ditch effort to get lawmakers in Richmond to vote on the Equal Rights Amendment failed today. It ends this year’s push to make Virginia the final state needed to change the constitution. Mallory Noe-Payne has more.