"Miller tells Axios he's "stunned" by the response, joking that while the internet knows him for his pants, he's better known around Danville for his dance moves."

"Among the food options highlighted on the tasting tour are jumbles (spiced shortbread cookies), pasties (hand-held pies similar to empanadas), apple cider and root beer, ginger cakes, peanut soup, game pie, oysters, Virginia ham biscuits..."

“We are in a position where, unfortunately, taxpayers are going to be looking at having to foot the bill, and that should not be,” Jones said. “When you have individuals that, have profited off it, for decades.”

"Multiple members of the Martinsville City Council confirmed this week that Richmond-based Sands Anderson is no longer serving as the city's attorney."

"Arlington’s congressman isn’t expecting the Trump administration’s National Park Service to return to Arlington House educational materials that cast Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s role in history in a critical light."

"NAACP branches in Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax County will host an 8th District congressional candidate forum on Thursday, July 9 at 7 p.m. at Shiloh Baptist Church Worship Center, 1401 Jamieson Ave. in Alexandria."

"Alexandria’s Independent Community Policing Review Board wants more questions answered on last summer’s in-custody death of Allan Tucker II."

"Miller tells Axios he's "stunned" by the response, joking that while the internet knows him for his pants, he's better known around Danville for his dance moves."

"County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’"

Not The Onion…

"County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’"

"Only a well-informed population can make thoughtful decisions about their government. There may be no more valuable tool than FOIA in ensuring the public has the information they need and which is rightfully theirs."

Ex-federal official gets 25 years for sexually assaulting women during Williamsburg conference at Camp Peary: https://mrf.lu/KBm8

“Why is the burden of surveillance not distributed equally?” O’Loughlin asked. “This is just another reason why I oppose the presence of a connected, searchable, always-on surveillance network.”

"Law enforcement agencies across the commonwealth raked in $54 million from their speed enforcement cameras in 2025 — a 61% increase from the $33.7 million the year before, according to a new report from the Virginia State Police."

"In doing so, Plecker achieved what some have called a "paper genocide" by systematically altering documents foundational to a person's identity and legal status: birth certificates, marriage licenses and death certificates."

"Local residents in the surrounding neighborhoods have warned for years that the leachate has been getting into streams and odors have been permeating from the landfill."

"Only a well-informed population can make thoughtful decisions about their government. There may be no more valuable tool than FOIA in ensuring the public has the information they need and which is rightfully theirs."

"On Monday, the Louisa County Board of Supervisors passed an official resolution opposing the project’s route through the mostly rural county. Two of the potential routes run directly through Louisa."

“We’ve joined with our school board, our delegates, and senator, to oppose this. We’ve asked and sent to Dominion and Valley Link questions about the need for this, trying to get information from them that they’re not providing," Nicol said.

"Though it went relatively unreported, four Virginia legislators flew abroad to attend: State Senator Scott Surovell (D-Fairfax), State Senator Russet Perry (D-Loudoun), State Senator Bryce Reeves (R-Orange), and Delegate Phillip Scott (R-Spotsylvania)."

"And, as Richmond got wealthier, it also got whiter. By the 2020 census, Richmond’s white population had surpassed the city’s Black population for the first time since the 1970 annexation."

"Chesterfield County’s proposed $2.3 billion budget includes $60,000 to maintain the county’s system of 141 Flock Safety automated license plate readers and more than $260,000 to hire three new intelligence officers..."

“In fact, these cemeteries are outdoor archives of the African American experience, they are memorial sites where 50 to 60 to 70,000 people are buried. These sites are as important as any cemetery, any historic monument in this country..."

"The candidates all criticize Griffith for “not doing anything” or not being available to the voters of the “Fightin’ Ninth,” Virginia’s most conservative district, which he has represented for 16 years."

"An AI-powered local news network shut down after Axios Richmond's questions about copied content on its Henrico site grew into a broader plagiarism scandal."

“Six months is simply not enough time to evaluate a $67 billion merger that would reshape Virginia’s electric utility landscape, affect millions of families, and impact the thousands of Virginians employed by Dominion Energy,” Hashmi wrote.

"The Bland County commonwealth’s attorney’s office has been appointed as a special prosecutor to investigate an elected official in Buchanan County, but the prosecutor handling the case said he doesn’t know yet who or what is being investigated."

"Three state agencies involved in tracking and investigating in-custody deaths at Virginia prisons have reported divergent numbers for eight of the past 10 years"

"This is the second large-scale ICE action in Greene County in recent months."

“We aren’t even being nickeled and dimed, we’re being dollared and five-dollared based on our energy rates, because of Dominion owning our Republicans and Democrats in the [Virginia] General Assembly, which is why none of those bills passed...."

"Six candidates involved in a Republican nomination process earlier this summer are now running for Lynchburg City Council as independents, bringing the total number of candidates on November’s ballot to 10."

"Supervisor Sylvia R. Glass (D-Broad Run), whose district the site, also attended and said her concerns mirror those of the residents’. “It was overwhelmingly against having a data center there,” Glass said."

"After already spending millions, Virginia's Department of Social Services shut down a two-year long IT project to overhaul the state's outdated child support enforcement system."

"Monica Robinson didn’t attend Tuesday’s Harrisonburg City Council meeting, but there was no comment or information about whether the council member’s absence was related to the arrests of family members at her home last week."

"After initially releasing a list of 16 addresses where Flock sensors had been incorrectly installed in Roanoke, the city on Wednesday evening said that the list actually includes 30 locations."

Man convicted of attack on Danville City Council member will spend 40 years in prison

"A former Page County supervisor who pled guilty to crimes involving the exploitation of a child was sentenced on Tuesday."

Swimming advisory issued for beaches in Newport News, Hampton: https://mrf.lu/K1gF

"A six-figure civil penalty from the DEQ is uncommon but not unprecedented. For example, last year the department levied civil penalties totaling nearly $121,000 on the solar developer Energix, marking the fourth year in a row it had cited that company."

"Environmental groups worry that pulling up swaths of the seafloor would cause serious damage."

"The violations affected more than 1,800 animals in 2023. The shelter has come under fire once again this year for its high euthanasia rates, which are historically far above state averages."

Federal prosecutors say a former procurement officer for the Richmond Fire Department embezzled money from the agency for nearly a decade, from 2017 to 2025.

"A three-judge panel of the Virginia Court of Appeals has upheld the 2023 firing of a guard at Sussex I State Prison after he was caught on a body-camera video repeatedly assaulting an inmate, turning a dog on him and later joking about it with colleagues."

"100,000 tons of rubble from HRBT expansion will go onto artificial reefs in the Chesapeake Bay"

"A three-judge panel of the Virginia Court of Appeals has upheld the 2023 firing of a guard at Sussex I State Prison after he was caught on a body-camera video repeatedly assaulting an inmate, turning a dog on him and later joking about it with colleagues."

“It makes me feel a little vulnerable knowing that at any time someone could be listening and I just have no way of knowing because they won’t disclose any of their privacy practices and how they keep those things secure,” Vaughn said.

"The city of Roanoke says it will pause installations of Flock Safety’s Raven gunshot detector devices after 16 devices were mounted in incorrect locations."

The devil is in the supplementals. Harrisonburg VA police chief & city manager quietly pulled a $35,000 pro forma appropriation for ForceMetrics from the agenda while the town works through concerns around privacy & data governance. #DeFlock #Harrisonburg #masssurveillance #vadems

"The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources has taken out a $6.9 million loan from the state treasury to cover payroll, overdue contractor payments and travel reimbursements..."