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Mayor Stoney’s $2.9B budget

‘We are stronger than we’ve ever been’

In delivering his 2025 City of Richmond Budget speech yesterday, Mayor Levar M. Stoney praised his budget team for “working tirelessly year-round to ensure our financial house is in order.”

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Youngkin acts on gun bills, vetoing dozens as expected

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Tuesday he had vetoed 30 pieces of gun-related legislation, including measures that would have halted the sale of certain semiautomatic firearms.

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Personality: Linwood ‘Shawn’ Nelson

Spotlight on board chairman of Rx Partnership

Linwood “Shawn” Nelson, a product of rural Virginia, was no stranger to poverty while growing up.

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Gov. Youngkin is VCU commencement speaker

Gov. Glenn Youngkin will be Virginia Commonwealth University’s spring commencement speaker on May 11.

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Free community testing for COVID-19 continues

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are offering testing at the following locations:

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Meet the new kids at Maymont

Maymont welcomed three baby Tennessee domestic goats to Maymont Farm just in time for spring.

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The ridiculous retiring Republicans, by Julianne Malveaux

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson needed Democrats to narrowly avert the government shutdown that loomed if Congressional budget legislation was not passed by Saturday, March 23. Many Republicans did not vote for the budget legislation; Democrats saved the day.

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A tone-deaf attack on diversity at a university first built by the enslaved, by Bob Lewis

Posts began popping up in my social media feeds a couple of weeks ago from friends in my demographic: white, male and old enough to know better.

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Baltimore bridge collapse

Port closure sends companies scrambling to reroute cargo

The stunning collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is diverting shipping and trucking around one of the busiest ports on America’s East Coast, creating delays and raising costs in the latest disruption to global supply chains.

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Safe and secure

New safety nets are crucial in ensuring the well-being and success of students in Richmond Public Schools. Recent discussions by the RPS School Board regarding homebound and home-based instruction protocols, as well as revised procedures for certifying graduating seniors, highlight the importance of providing support and guidance to students who already face myriad pressures and mental health challenges.

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Trump making Black voter inroads. Why?, by Clarence Page

Reports that Donald Trump has made surprising gains among Black voters have raised understandable alarm among my Democratic-leaning friends.

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Maymont welcomes all for 2024 Dominion Energy Family Easter events

Maymont invites local families to celebrate spring at Dominion Energy Family Easter on Saturday, March 30, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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AMMD Pine Grove prepares to stabilize building, debut film ‘More than a School'

The past and future of the historic Pine Grove School will be the focus of two events hosted by the AMMD Pine Grove Project during the last week of March and the first week of April.

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Richmond Continentals host free financial workshop

The Richmond Continental Societies will host a free financial literacy workshop for high school students and parents Saturday, March 23, from 10 a.m. to noon at Armstrong High School, 2300 Cool Lane.

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Free community testing for COVID-19 continues

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are offering testing at the following locations:

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New safety nets

Richmond School Board discusses homebound learning, protocols for upcoming graduations

Improvements are underway to clarify Richmond Public Schools’ homebound and home-based instruction protocols, along with revised procedures for certifying graduating seniors. In its March 18 meeting, RPS School Board members discussed the changes made some nine months after the June 6 shooting death of Shawn Jackson, a homebound student attending Huguenot High School.

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Personality: Stephanie Spencer

Meet the founder, executive director of Urban Baby Beginnings

For years, Stephanie Spencer has worked to build a better future for mothers. A lifetime of experiences – from working in the medical system as a nurse to becoming a mother herself – has contributed to her growing knowledge of maternal issues, particularly for Black women.

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Coming Together Virginia to explore impact of racism on mental health

For the next three months, Coming Together Virginia (CTVA) will host its Racism at Work (RAW) series to tackle how racism affects physical and emotional well-being. Founded by Danita Rountree Green and Martha Rollins in 2014, the nonprofit’s vision is of “a racially healed world of thriving, equitable and just communities.”

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Free community testing for COVID-19 continues

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are offering testing at the following locations:

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A new generation of readers embraces bell hooks’ ‘All About Love’

In the summer of 2022, Emma Goodwin was getting over a breakup and thinking hard about her life and how to better herself. She decided to try a book she had heard about often, bell hooks’ “All About Love: New Visions.”