A Republican Veterans Community Center Is Open; More Va., Headlines

Staff Report, Virginia Mercury

August 25, 2022

• The Republican National Committee has opened a new veterans community center in Virginia Beach to offer training to veterans who want to campaign on behalf of Republican candidates.—Virginian Pilot

• “A Virginia Beach company slated to whisk Walmart deliveries to millions of households by drone announced on Wednesday that it is expanding its headquarters and establishing a center for testing, training, research and development at a public junior college.”—Washington Post

• A senior adviser hired by Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration was asked to resign as deputy director of a Virginia agency in 1997 “after a legislative audit found he couldn’t justify a nearly $8,000 payment to a former employee.”—VPM

• The Virginia NAACP is leading a push to change the method of school board selection in some localities from appointments to elections. The organization is beginning with Hanover County, which has been roiled by recent conflicts over transgender students and racial relations.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• Virginia’s federally recognized tribes are working with the state Department of Education and school divisions to correct what’s being taught in schools about the tribes. “The history in there that they have that the students are getting now is not really the truth, it’s not really the facts.”—WVTF

• Almost half of Virginia residents live in a “child care desert,” an area where child care options are insufficient.—Cardinal News

• “State regulators said Wednesday they would consider additional arguments about whether Dominion Energy Virginia’s plans to build a massive offshore wind farm should include a ratepayer protection that the utility has said will kill the project.”—Associated Press

• Virginia’s coastal forests are being threatened by sea level rise.—WHRO

• Virginia Beach’s schools superintendent got in a heated argument during a school board meeting with conservative board members who have been calling administrators and teachers “porn peddlers” for their unwillingness to remove certain books from libraries. “You will stop saying that my staff is giving pornography to children.”—Virginian Pilot

• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle adopted one of the beagles rescued from the Envigo breeding facility in Cumberland.—New York Times

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