Librarians want a say in which books are stocked in Rockingham County schools… The effort to require some businesses to offer paid sick days has failed in the General Assembly… Governor Youngkin helps break ground for the new Buc-ee’s travel center coming to the Harrisonburg area….

The state’s health department releases details about the millions of dollars lost by the Office of Emergency Medical Services… Rockingham County grapples with the removal of dozens of school library books… Advocates count the number of people experiencing homelessness in the Shenandoah Valley….

The nationwide success of Affordable Care Act enrollment is reflected in Virginia… In the General Assembly, lawmakers want to clean up personal spending of campaign funds, create a marijuana marketplace, and crack down on so-called “junk fees”… Two researchers at UVa want to understand our waterways in new ways by creating river music….

Roanoke College launches a new major in Cannabis Studies, while the General Assembly works on constructing a marijuana marketplace… Also in Richmond, lawmakers advance legislation to protect inmates from price gouging, and we have a General Assembly review and analysis from Jeff Schapiro….

Rockingham County high school students stage walkouts in protest of a school board that is now tilting to the right in its decisions… In the General Assembly, Charlottesville Senator Creigh Deeds wants to make it easier for renewable energy projects to overcome local hurdles, legislators advance a bill that would remove a tax exemption for the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and Democrats move to block school choice legislation backed by the lieutenant governor….

Harrisonburg’s skate community weighs in on plans for a reconstructed skate park… Legislators in Richmond fill two vacancies on the SCC, advance legislation that would end legacy admissions in public universities, defend early voting, and move to eliminate some exceptions to Virginia's minimum wage laws….

A judge rules that some of the nearly 100 animals seized in a raid at the Natural Bridge Zoo should be returned… Harrisonburg cops want to form a union… In the General Assembly, Democrats advance a number of bills, including new gun control legislation….

Much of the Shenandoah Valley, from Augusta County north, is still under a drought warning… In General Assembly news, community health workers and their allies ask lawmakers for increased funding, and bills to provide free lunch for all public school students, and rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative advance….

Charlottesville’s Jefferson School African American Heritage Center wants to get public input on where to put new art created with the melted bronze from the Robert E. Lee statue… Valley Delegate Tony Wilt introduces legislation to create a public defender office in Harrisonburg… We review the latest action in the General Assembly, along with our weekly analysis by Jeff Schapiro….

Virginians can start voting early in the March Super Tuesday primaries on Friday, January 19th... Ed Clark, co-founder of the Wildlife Center of Virginia, is stepping down after more than four decades... We review some of the bills moving through the General Assembly, including a reform of campaign donations, teacher raises, and more money for public schools....