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City registrar takes heat for delay in opening satellite voting locations
Keith G. Balmer, Richmond’s new voter registrar, was rushing to start early in-person voting next week at two satellite locations—City Hall in Downtown and the Hickory Hill Community Center in South Side.
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School Board rejects terminating contract for school food vendor
The Richmond School Board and schools administration debated the future of who will be contracted to provide meals to the city’s 24,000 students and what they will eat after last week’s public outrage over the condition, quality and nutritional value of the “Grab and Go” meals delivered to schools daily by provider Preferred Meals.
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30 city employees face possible firing over COVID-19 vaccination mandate
With the City of Richmond just days away from the Oct. 1 deadline for all employees to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, all but 30 workers have gotten the vaccine or filed religious or medical exemptions to the city mandate.
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Golden Nugget donates $1M to Virginia’s HBCUs
A $1 million donation to the five historically Black universities in Virginia.
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Commonwealth Catholic Charities to lead city’s winter overflow shelter efforts
Homeless people needing shelter in Richmond beginning Friday, Oct. 1, through mid-April will have a place to stay if the private shelters are full during cold weather.
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City Addresses problems in three new school buildings
City Hall is blaming manufacturing defects for flaws in three new school buildings that opened for in-person classes on Sept. 8.
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Students to face new ‘growth assessment’ tests this fall
Richmond Public School students will be required to take a statewide growth assessment test starting this fall.
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Hampton beats Howard in the ‘Battle for the Real HU’
Even the moral support of Vice President Kamala Harris couldn’t save her alma mater, Howard University, last Saturday in Washington, D.C.
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VSU Trojans hoping for a win against Fayetteville State
Virginia State University’s football team is hoping a bus ride down Interstate 95 will lead to its first football victory of the season.
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Flying Squirrels wrap up season with big crowds and a record number of homers
The Richmond Flying Squirrels 2021 season may be best remembered for home crowds and home runs.
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Washington’s Fuller is last of 4 brothers to make it to the NFL
Kendall Fuller, the fourth of four brothers to reach the NFL, is making the most so far of his second stint with the Washington Football Team.
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Kattz Angelz to host anti-violence car and motorcycle parade Sept. 25
Motorcycles and cars will parade through the city on Saturday, Sept. 25, to promote an end to violence in low-income areas and to raise money for families of victims of shootings, it has been announced.
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Haitians and a history of U.S. mistreatment
The inhumane treatment of thousands of Haitian migrants encamped and stuck at the U.S.-Mexico border on the Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas, is just the latest example of the double standard employed by this country regarding Black immigrants.
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Pass the Freedom to Vote Act, by Ben Jealous
Republican-controlled state legislatures have imposed new voting restrictions. They are getting ready to create more safe congressional seats for Republicans through abusive partisan redistricting. They are undermining faith in elections with false claims about election fraud and demands for fake “audits.”
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Global warming is real, by Jesse L. Jackson Sr.
Record fires in Oregon and California. Floods in Houston and New York. Deadly winter storms in Texas. Droughts across much of the west. Flash floods in England and Germany. Blinding dust storms in China. One hundred year cyclones devastate Fiji and Indonesia. Deadly droughts across sub-Saharan Africa. Wildfires in Greece and Italy.
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Why Virginia Republicans will lose in November
One needs to look no further than last year’s presidential election results in Virginia to understand why Republican Glenn Youngkin will lose the gubernatorial race this No- vember.
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Mortician Shawn Troy stands at the grave of his father, William Penn Troy Sr., at Hillcrest Cemetery outside Mullins, S.C., on Sunday, May 23, 2021. …
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Time capsule with items from a new Virginia buried at former Lee site
The streets of Monument Avenue were filled with sounds of construction equipment last Thursday as more than a dozen workers searched from sunrise to sunset, and through sporadic rainfall, for a 134-year-old time capsule believed to be hidden in the base of the pedestal that until Sept. 8 held the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
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Task force recommends subpoena powers for police oversight board
A recommendation for creating a powerful new city office to police the police has been sent to Richmond City Council for review.
