This year’s General Assembly adjourned Sunday. Our partner station WCVE in Richmond has been covering the session. In this roundtable discussion with reporters, WCVE's Craig Carper reviews what lawmakers accomplished, and what they failed to achieve.

As this year’s General Assembly adjourns, we’ll take a look back at what legislators accomplished this year… Meanwhile, longtime Charlottesville representative David Toscano says he’s leaving public office… And, Lieutenant Governor Fairfax surprises many lawmakers by comparing himself to lynching victims….

Democrats and Republicans in the General Assembly blame each other for the failure to start hearings over assault allegations against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax… A last ditch effort to pass the Equal Rights Amendment in this session fails… Meanwhile, lawmakers are working to help reduce the number of African-American women who die in childbirth….

Governor Northam is skipping what was to be the first stop on his racial reconciliation tour… Meanwhile, the public has softened on whether Northam should resign over the blackface scandal, but his approval has dropped below that of President Trump… What comes next for sexual assault allegations against Lieutenant Governor Fairfax?

Among the many flashpoints in the fight over Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a proposed compressor station in Union Hill, a predominantly black community in Buckingham County founded by freed slaves.

Al Gore and the Reverend William Barber lead a rally for environmental justice in Buckingham County… The so-called “Bolling Bill” now awaits the governor’s signature – it would prohibit the kind of ethically questionable hiring of a recent member of the Board of Visitors that happened at JMU last year… Abigail Spanberger holds the first town hall the 7 th District has seen in years….

Virginia joins 15 other states in a lawsuit challenging President Trump's Emergency Declaration to build his wall along the southern border… Lawmakers in Richmond consider more transparency in how state government works… In our second of two reports on the increase in homeschooling, we visit a homeschooling co-op in Charlottesville founded to create a positive learning environment for children of color....

As we learned yesterday, homeschooling in our part of Virginia is growing quickly for various reasons. In this follow-up report, WMRA’s Andrew Jenner reports on one homeschooling co-op in Charlottesville founded to create a positive learning environment for children of color.

Federal authorities launch a criminal investigation into the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Virginia… Gov. Northam signs a bill clearing the way for refunds this year for tax-paying Virginians… More and more parents are choosing to homeschool their children, so we explore why that is….

The number of students being homeschooled in our area has grown a lot over the last decade . In the first of a two-part series, WMRA’s Andrew Jenner explores why that’s happening.