Marine Commission Member Lobbying On Pipeline; More Va., Headlines

Staff Report, Virginia Mercury

August 8, 2022

• A member of the Virginia Marine Resources Commission lobbied other officials to support a natural gas pipeline extension project near Petersburg his board will vote on. But he won’t say if he was paid for his advocacy.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• A former doctor who murdered his father after suffering a traumatic brain injury was pardoned last year by Gov. Ralph Northam. He’s still behind bars due to treatment requirements the state imposed.—Washington Post

• Experts say the pandemic played a role in Virginia’s rising homicide rate. “I think the minimization of social contact and the abrogation of social networks was one piece of it.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• After a nightclub shooting that wounded four, Norfolk officials are putting pressure on downtown businesses to help stop the violence.—Virginian-Pilot

• The chair of the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors is resigning after his wife, a former Warrenton town manager, took a job at Amazon, which is planning a data center in the county.—WTOP

• The executive director of a Danville history museum says she’s resigning over “chaos” in how the facility is run.—Danville Register & Bee

• Two historically black universities in the Richmond area, Virginia Union University and Virginia State University, are planning to launch lab schools as part of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s push for alternative K-12 education models.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

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