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Expect higher natural gas bills

Get ready to pay more to heat your home and cook your food. The price of natural gas is going up for Richmond customers, effective with the February bills. The city Department of Public Utilities now is paying more to buy the fuel and is planning to pass on the higher cost to customers.

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Civil rights exhibit at City Hall

The words and photographs of 28 area residents who participated in the Civil Rights Movement in Richmond are now on display in City Hall.

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'Take Your Community Back' motorcycle and auto ride Sept. 28

LaTasha S. “Tasha” Kenney is hoping hun- dreds of people will take part in an upcoming anti-violence action aimed at benefiting the families of two children who were victims of gun violence.

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VCU goes tobacco free

Public streets and sidewalks now are virtually the last refuge for smokers on the Virginia Commonwealth University campus.

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Buyer beware

Consumers may flip wig over falsely labeled hair

Unsuspecting women are being ripped off when it comes to buying wigs. They are being induced to pay higher prices for cheaper wigs that are falsely labeled as being a more expensive product. So says Mary J. Harris, a retired Richmond factory worker.

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What’s all the Hoopla?

Richmond Public Library doubles its digital offerings

The Richmond Public Library just doubled its offerings of books, music, movies, TV shows, video games and other items, and it didn’t have to buy anything.

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Mistake may prevent hundreds from voting

A flawed list could keep hundreds of felons in Richmond and possibly thousands across the state from being properly registered to vote and having their votes counted in the upcoming June 14 primary election, the Free Press has learned. At least 420 felons in Richmond were still waiting to be put on the voter rolls by Monday’s voter registration deadline even though they believe they are covered by Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s April 22 order restoring rights to 206,000 people who had completed their sentences and any probation or parole requirements.

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City eliminates $240,000 admissions tax debt of Richmond Jazz Festival

Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s administration has quietly eliminated the estimated $240,000 in admissions taxes that the popular Richmond Jazz Festival owed the city, three highly placed sources have told the Free Press.

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China’s new policy threatening recycling in U.S.

At least half the cans, bottles, plastics and paper collected for recycling used to end up in one place — China. Now China has decided to stop accepting most of the recycled materials that it once purchased. And that decision is having huge ripple effects on recycling programs in Richmond, as well as other communities in this country and overseas.

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Free Press wins big at VPA awards

The Richmond Free Press received top honors in the 2020 Virginia Press Association News and Advertising Contest, capturing Best in Show awards for both writing and photography among all non-daily newspapers across the state for coverage of the social justice demonstrations that swept the city last summer and the resulting removal of Confederate statues.

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Making moves

Delegate Don Scott Jr. new Democratic House leader

In just two years, Democratic Delegate Don Scott Jr. has done the extraordinary— leaping from novice legislator to House Minority Leader.

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Richmond’s chance of landing a casino still awaits Petersburg report

Richmond could still hold a second vote in November seeking authorization to bring a casino-resort to South Side, but the outcome appears likely to be meaningless even if a majority of those who cast ballots back the proposed $565 million project this time around.

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Former city nursing home to become 86 apartments

Ground was finally broken on June 1 to officially start the conversion of Richmond’s former nursing home into 86 units of housing for low-income individuals who also receive on-site supportive services from Faith Community Baptist Church and other partners.

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Richmond reduces charge for natural gas

The cost that Richmond customers must pay for natural gas is coming down, for now.

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Training facility for people formerly incarcerated won’t reopen

City Hall has ruled out allowing a nonprofit construction training program for people released from jails and prisons to return to a former North Side school building that it had occupied for five years.

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Richmond and Henrico to get 2 new Black judges

Black female attorneys are continuing to make judgeship gains in Richmond and Henrico County.

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ELECTION 2020: Will a winner prevail in mayor’s race or will there be a runoff?

Will there be an outright winner or a runoff election?

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A helping hand is just a call away

Need help with housing or utility costs? Want to learn about child care options? Looking for employment? So many people say they don’t know where to start to get the answers they need.

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New plaintiff’s in House elections suit unlikely to sway judge

The current and former president of the Loudoun County NAACP are now parties to a suit seeking to force new elections for the 100 House of Delegate seats in November — but the federal judge hearing the case appears determined to ensure that new elections cannot happen.