How Private Equity Affected A Richmond Nursing Home; More Va., Headlines

By Staff Report, Virginia Mercury

August 26, 2022

• After a private equity firm bought St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged in Richmond, “the company reduced staff, removed amenities, and set the stage for a deadly outbreak of COVID-19.”—The New Yorker

• Gov. Glenn Youngkin said he’s working on a major restructuring of Virginia’s workforce development efforts, a plan he says will be a centerpiece of his 2023 legislative agenda.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• One of the men involved in what Richmond police have alleged was a mass shooting plot targeting the city’s Fourth of July celebration pleaded guilty to an immigration charge in federal court. The federal prosecutor “made no mention of the alleged mass shooting plot” in court.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• “The way Virginia funds schools puts a heavy burden on local governments to help pay the bills, and that creates wide disparities in places where local governments can afford more compared to places that are already struggling to make ends meet.”—WVTF

• A jury deadlocked over whether to charge a gas delivery driver with involuntary manslaughter after tanks at a Buena Vista gas station he supplied in 2019 exploded an hour after his delivery, killing four.—Roanoke Times

• Federal authorities signed off on Maryland’s plans to widen parts of the Beltway and Interstate 270. The project will also replace the American Legion Bridge, a notorious chokepoint over the Potomac between Northern Virginia and Maryland.—Washington Post

• Despite supply chain delays due to the pandemic, the massive Hampton-Roads Bridge Tunnel expansion is still on track for its scheduled Nov. 2025 completion.—Virginian-Pilot

• Chesapeake, Chesterfield, Henrico and Pittsylvania are pitching potential sites for large semiconductor chip factories in response to major federal legislation incentivizing the return of chip manufacturing to the U.S.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• The Appalachian Regional Commission is making $1 billion in infrastructure law funding available to states in its footprint for projects that include multi-state cooperation.—WVTF

• “The story of a Virginia Beach woman who federal prosecutors have said masterminded possibly the biggest counterfeit coupon scheme in U.S. history will be the focus of an ABC true crime television series.”—Virginian-Pilot

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