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Consumers overtaxed? Receipts show it happened, but now changed

Be aware: Some corporations appear to be collecting more sales tax from customers than the state or local govern- ments require.

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Challenge to wording on November ballot dismissed

The Virginia Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed an attempt to block the state Board of Elections from printing ballots, including proposed amendments to the state Constitution involving the drawing of lines for political districts.

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State high court criticizes Judge Cavedo in throwing out Confederate statue injunction

Complaints that Richmond Circuit Court Judge Bradley B. Cavedo made up the law in a bid to halt Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s removal of racist Confederate statues just gained support from the Virginia Supreme Court.

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Relief?

Richmond School Board votes 6-0 to open five schools for emergency day care for 500 children of essential workers and low-income families

Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras acknowledges that a huge number of parents with children in the school system may need help with child care to avoid financial ruin.

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$4M grant enables Legal Aid to hire new attorneys to help curb evictions

Legal Services Corp. of Virginia, also known as Legal Aid, has received a $4 million grant from the state that could allow the organization to hire an additional 20 attorneys to support tenants facing court action from landlords seeking to evict them for nonpayment.

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Mayor Stoney officially kicks off re-election campaign

Mayor Levar M. Stoney officially launched his bid for a second four-year term with a show of support from the state’s top elected Democrat, Gov. Ralph S. Northam.

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Nearly 15 percent of city inmates under COVID-19 quarantine

The number of COVID-19 cases has risen sharply at the Richmond City Justice Center, Sheriff Antionette V. Irving has reported.

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Families of federal inmates to show support on Sept. 5

Relatives of prisoners at the federal prison complex near Petersburg plan to make some noise to let the inmates know they are not forgotten at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5.

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Charles L. Conyers, consummate educator and retired state education administrator, dies at 92

Charles Lee Conyers believed that a good education was the ticket out of poverty.

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Athlete power: ‘Shut up and play’ is tossed from the game

The sports world came to a halt last week as leagues postponed professional men’s and women’s basketball games, football practices, soccer matches, baseball games, hockey playoffs and tennis competitions as players protested the shooting of a Black man by police in Kenosha, Wis.

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Hospital Street burial ground gets support as new historic district

Lenora C. McQueen’s three-year crusade to gain recognition for the long forgotten and largely destroyed Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground at 5th and Hospital streets in Richmond is starting to secure results.

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Former city councilman pushing African-American perspective missing in Lee statue lawsuit

New drama is about to be injected into the already charged legal fight over removing the last and largest offensive Confederate statue from Monument Avenue — the one to slavery’s top military defender, Gen. Robert E. Lee.

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State watchdog agency examining special education system

First came a scathing federal report on the failure of the Virginia Department of Education to effectively monitor the special education programs that local public school divisions provide to children with learning disabilities and mental challenges.

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City rent and mortgage assistance program to get additional $8M in federal funds

City Hall will pump an additional $8 million into a rent and mortgage assistance program in a bid to help hundreds of strug- gling Richmond families avoid eviction.

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RRHA’s annual plan for 2019-20 finally approved by HUD

It took nearly a year, but the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority has finally received federal approval for its 2019-20 annual plan.

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Dr. Earl McClenney Jr., legendary VSU educator and longtime public administrator, dies at 79

Dr. Earl Hampton McClenney Jr. left his mark on public administration in Virginia as an educator and as a Richmond and state official where he fought entrenched racism and sought to aid the underdog.

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School day care?

Empty public school buildings may be central to city task force plan to help parents with day care as they return to work

Sharonda Robinson hoped against hope that Richmond Public Schools would reopen this fall so her sons, ages 6 and 8, could be in school taking classes while she went to work.

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Special General Assembly session kicks off amid rallies calling for reform

Will evictions be halted until April 30, 2021, as Richmond Democratic state Sen. Ghazala F. Hashmi has proposed?

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Gray calls for probe of mayor’s use of $1.8M to remove Confederate statues

The fate of two Richmond-owned Confederate statues and one of Christopher Columbus remain on hold even as City Council has put in place a process to sell off 10 others.

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City projects $4.7M budget surplus despite COVID-19

While many in Richmond are struggling to pay their bills during the pandemic, City Hall surprisingly remains awash in cash.