JMU’s President helps one of his former supervisors, a former lieutenant governor, get a high-paying job without a competitive search… Dominion and the builders of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline sue Nelson County over blocking construction there… We review Bob Goodlatte’s 26 years in Congress – he’s leaving after this term….

A little more than a month ago, the survival of Harrisonburg’s Skyline Literacy was in question. Since then, the community has stepped up to meet the need. WMRA’s Andrew Jenner reports.

Skyline Literacy asks for help, and gets a big boost from the community… Dominion wants customers to pony up more than $300 million to pay for coal plant upgrades… Virginia’s economy is booming, but gender disparities in employment remain….

A federal appeals court throws out a permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to cross two national forests, citing in part 'The Lorax'… Virginia Republicans are asking the nation’s high court to keep a new legislative map from going into effect… Governor Northam proposes a big investment in new school counselors….

Suicide rates in Virginia are up, most heavily among white men… Mixed results on free speech on Virginia campuses… While environmentalists criticize a new EPA rule on wetlands, Governor Northam says he wants to spend more next year on Virginia’s environment….

A jury recommends life in prison for the neo-Nazi who drove into a crowd of protesters at last year’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, and Governor Northam proposes pay raises for Virginia teachers.

A new report finds that Virginia’s foster care system does not do enough to find relatives to take in foster children, a practice known as “kinder care”… Virginia schools are transforming, and that could profoundly affect transgender students… A Charlottesville jury meets for a second day on the sentencing of James Alex Fields, Jr….

Virginia professor and author Ed Ayers has chronicled life during the Civil War from one community in the North and another from Augusta county in Virginia for his new book The Thin Light Of Freedom .

From soil to sacred, last week’s Farm to Table Conference [Dec. 5-6, 2018] served up two days’ worth of sessions and talks about food, farming and community. There’s cause for concern – and hope, as WMRA’s Christopher Clymer Kurtz reports.

A December snowstorm that the weather experts say was one for the books, and we’ll be feeling the effects beyond Monday… As Dominion suspends construction on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the weather forces a delay on a state board’s vote on a compressor station in Buckingham County… A jury will begin deciding the fate of James Alex Fields, Jr….