Apple and Google sit at the center of today’s misinformation crisis, and Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine should focus there if they want real change. Together, they control the app stores that determine which platforms can exist on billions of phones. Access to iOS...
More than 2,000 black children were robbed of an education during Virginia's Massive Resistance campaign against school integration. Ken Woodley wants to give it back. Ken Woodley, author of The Road to Healing, will be speaking at Chop Suey bookstore this afternoon. The Road to Healing centers around Woodley’s first-person account of the...
In his meeting with Mayor Levar Stoney this week, former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu challenged Richmonders to consider the continued impact of Confederate monuments on our city's image and reputation. It was a meeting of the Mayoral minds on Tuesday, as Richmond’s Mayor Levar Stoney and New Orleans’ former mayor Mitch Landrieu engaged in...
Virginia lawmakers have taken steps to address geographic disparities in broadband coverage, giving utility companies the green light to provide broadband internet to unserved areas. If you want internet service in the rural hamlet of Honaker, in far Southwest Virginia, Cable Plus is the only game in town. With internet speeds of 3 megabits per...
Governor Ralph Northam may be trying to put his blackface scandal behind him. But we are just beginning to see the effects of his missteps, on state politics in general and on the Democratic Party in particular. Some of these effects extend beyond the Governor’s office. As was widely reported last week, VA First Lady Pam Northam got in hot water...
How did Gerry Baugh go from being a primary player in Central Virginia's hard-right political sphere to closing his body shop without notice, leaving customers in the lurch? RVA Mag does some digging. When I cut my engine in the parking lot of Baugh Auto Body and Truck Repair, the air was relatively still. There was some minor commotion at the...
In the final weeks of its 2019 session, the General Assembly passed three bills that would help people using cannabis-derived medications. On Saturday, the House and Senate gave final approval to a bill allowing students who have proper documentation to use CBD oil and THC-A oil at school. SB 1632, sponsored by Sen. Glen Sturtevant, R-Richmond,...
Some want Northam, Fairfax, and Herring to resign. Some want them to stay in office. And almost half of Virginians polled just weren't sure. Virginians have low approval ratings of Gov. Ralph Northam and Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, but most people say no one should resign or be impeached, according to a recent poll by the University of Virginia’s...
They sang songs of resilience, held hands and promised to continue fighting for environmental justice. That was the scene Tuesday night in a middle school gymnasium where more than 700 people gathered to hear former Vice President Al Gore and a prominent civil rights leader, the Rev. William Barber II, draw connections between poverty, racism,...
A flurry of bills addressing affordable housing and high eviction rates in Virginia cities moved forward in the House and Senate this week. Three bills on those issues have passed both chambers and have been sent to Gov. Ralph Northam to be signed into law. Several other measures have passed one chamber and are awaiting a floor vote in the other....
