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Data Shows That Mail In Richmond Often Arrives Late

Richmond has the third-slowest mail delivery rate of any United States metro area. But if you live here, you already know that. Rachel Westfall, who lives in Richmond’s Jackson Ward neighborhood, says her mail service has always been hit or miss. But since April,...

Hashmi’s Election Draws Racist Comments on Facebook

Virginia state Senator-elect Ghazala Hashmi will be the first Muslim to serve in Virginia's legislature, and a lot of racists on social media just can't stop crying about it. Days after Virginia’s legislative elections, racist comments continued to flood news stories...

Black Children More Likely To Live In ‘Concentrated Poverty’

Nearly 100,000 Virginia children live in high-poverty neighborhoods; that figure includes 15 percent of Virginia's African American children, but only 2 percent of the commonwealth's white children. African American children are more than seven times as likely as...

Snap Out of It: Political Ads Appearing on Snapchat

In the run-up to today's election, political candidates are trying all sorts of novel ways to reach young voters -- including, yes, ads on Snapchat. A candidate for sheriff in a rural Virginia county is trying to reach younger voters by advertising on a social media...

Beer Distributors Pour Donations Into General Assembly Races

The Virginia Beer Wholesalers Association, which distributes many of Richmond's favorite craft brews, is also the seventh-largest political donor in the state this year; a slight majority of its donations go to Republicans. On a chilly fall night in the Scott’s...

2018 Report Found Nearly 7,000 Absentee Ballots Mailed Too Late

Your vote should count, even if you have to mail it in. Don't be late! Virginia voters have already returned more absentee ballots in 2019 than in the November 2015 election -- the last time all 140 seats in the General Assembly were up for reelection. In the last few...

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