Arlington Still Hasn't Paid Amazon HQ2 Incentives; More Va., Headlines

Staff Report, Virginia Mercury

September 2, 2022

• Arlington County hasn’t paid out any of the $23 million it offered to Amazon to get the company’s HQ2 project. Officials say it’s because the tax revenues they’re based on have stayed flat due to the pandemic.—Washington Post

• Democrats filed FOIA requests seeking info on Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s out-of-state political travels. Youngkin’s office dismissed the move as “a baseless partisan attack” and said the governor pays for the trips himself.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• In response to a lawsuit, the city of Charlottesville says its former police chief was fired because of “chaos and upheaval” in the department, not discrimination against the first Black woman to hold the job.—VPM

• The White House is announcing a $52.9 million grant to fuel biotech research and manufacturing in the Richmond and Petersburg areas.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• Acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni is retiring from Virginia Tech’s English department after 35 years. “We are human beings, all of us are, and we have nothing to be afraid of.”—Roanoke Times

• The last of the 4,000 beagles being removed from a Cumberland County breeding facility were taken out this week.—WTOP

• A lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay is for sale. But nobody wants to buy it.—Washington Post

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