Leader of key House committee plans to sponsor bill applying NC rules for alcohol-monitoring to social services. DSS agency buy-in uncertain.
NC legislator backs bill to apply alcohol-monitoring to social services. No clear signal from DSS agencies. …

The more than $1 billion in federal money Deputy Mayor Meera Joshi has won for New York City under the federal infrastructure law — one of President Joe Biden’s most important accomplishments — will buy electric vehicles, reduce freight transport carbon emissions, make ports more energy efficient, plan the overhaul of expressways that have divided communities […]

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State lawmakers are advancing two bills aimed at protecting children from the harms of social media, part of a nationwide wave of efforts to address the issue. Yet the bills’ proponents face hurdles in finding an approach that can survive legal challenges from the tech industry.

Although Novo Nordisk and Lilly lump together the pharmacies that compound semaglutide and tirzepatide with internet cowboys selling fake drugs, there is a distinction. The FDA has offered Americans little clarity about the vast gray and black markets for the drugs.

Here’s what the two parties say about economic issues that relate directly to rural Virginia.

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The two parties in a lawsuit challenging the results of a recent primary election sought access to records that they hope will help resolve the case.

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A Martinsville teacher is preparing for the release of her first book, a collection of stories from her native Patrick County.

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From elsewhere: Outdoor food truck “court” planned in Salem. Housing complex rehab in Saltville wins $2.4 million state loan. Mountain Valley Pipeline developer Equitrans and EQT together again as $5.45 billion deal closes.

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“Alright, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” Fading movie star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) utters those words in the final scene of “Sunset Boulevard,” Billy Wilder’s 1950 film noir that exposes the dark reality that lies behind Hollywood’s glamorous image. Desmond mistakes the newsreel cameras that will record her arrest for those of a […]

In a 2018 photograph taken by the Philadelphia artist Andrea Walls, a ghost floats toward the viewer. Draped in a white shroud and framed by power lines and splintered tree branches, the faceless figure is following train tracks that fall off the edge of the page. Walls’ eerie portrait, called “Railroaded,” appears in the final […]