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Harris Grabs Green New Deal Network Endorsement That Eluded Biden

by By Marianne Lavelle, Keerti GopalJuly 31, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris has captured the support of a key coalition of progressive, youth-led and environmental justice-focused climate advocates, with the Green New Deal Network slated on Wednesday to announce its endorsement of her candidacy. The development can cut two ways for the Democrats. On the one hand, it’s a boost for Harris from […]

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Florida’s RSV Season Has Started, and It’s Coming Soon to the Rest of US. Here’s a Primer.

by Sam Ogozalek, Tampa Bay TimesJuly 31, 2024

Florida’s RSV season begins earlier and runs longer than anywhere else in the U.S., according to the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute. New vaccines can help, but most older adults, who are vulnerable to RSV, haven’t gotten them yet.

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Elections officials ready for Thursday’s 5th District GOP primary recount

by Markus SchmidtJuly 31, 2024
Left: John McGuire. Right: Bob Good. McGuire photo by Bob Brown. Good photo courtesy of Good campaign.

Bob Good challenged the outcome of the election that he lost to John McGuire by 374 out of more than 60,000 votes cast.

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JD Vance’s nomination focuses attention, good and bad, on Appalachia. Here’s what outsiders should know.

by Dwayne Yancey, Cardinal NewsJuly 31, 2024
Outside Gate City. Photo by Mary Trigian

The region is ill-defined and easy to stereotype. Here are some facts.

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In response to lawsuit, VMI alumni association says it didn’t violate alumni civil rights

by Lisa RowanJuly 31, 2024
Preston Library at the Virginia Military Institute, a large two-story yellow-brick building

A group of 29 alumni last month sued the association. In its response, the association maintains that it is a private entity and so could not have stymied members’ right to free speech.

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Documentary highlights segregation-era school in Cumberland County

by Alyssa HuttonJuly 31, 2024
The Pine Grove school in Cumberland County, an old white-frame single-story building surrounded by trees.

The old Pine Grove school was built in 1917 to serve Black students. “Pine Grove: More Than a School” describes its history and modern-day challenges to its survival.

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St. Paul distillery work moves forward; more …

by Cardinal StaffJuly 31, 2024

From elsewhere: Virginia Department of Forestry takes down 4 p.m. burn ban signs. Mastodon bones unearthed at Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel construction site. New FM music station on the air in Roanoke Valley.

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California’s voters face competing ballot measures as interest groups clash

by Dan WaltersJuly 31, 2024
Bay Area tenants from the KDF Tenants Association protest housing conditions and rent increases outside the office complex that houses KDF Communities LLC's office in Newport Beach, on Oct. 26, 2023. Photo by Julie A Hotz for CalMatters

California’s initiative process casts voters as judges of political policy issues. Sometimes they’re parsing competing measures on the same topic.

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Major gas bill hike to be contested by city this fall

by Lina FisherJuly 31, 2024

You might have a much higher gas bill next year, pending an upcoming decision this fall by the Texas Railroad Commission, which oversees the state’s oil and gas industry. Texas Gas Service proposed a rate hike this year that could…
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Mexic-Arte pushes for state cultural district while museum reconstruction awaits

by Chad SwiateckiJuly 31, 2024

Leaders from the Mexic-Arte Museum downtown are at work gathering public input and indexing the cultural organizations along Fifth Street that could help to enhance the area that they hope will receive state recognition as a cultural district for the&#…

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