Davis Burroughs

Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all of today’s Virginia news coming right up. And if you’re a fan, please forward to three friends who need to know what’s going on in the Commonwealth and tell them to subscribe here.  But First… A lot is changing across the Commonwealth, but some things stay…

Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all of today’s Virginia news coming right up. And if you’re a fan, please forward to three friends who need to know what’s going on in the Commonwealth and tell them to subscribe here.  But First… Virginia Republicans are in an awkward spot. Just one month after…

Happy Monday, Virginia. If you haven’t familiarized yourself with Cambridge, this week’s Dogwood Dog of the Week, what are you waiting for? Two more mass shootings shake the country; here’s where gun laws stand in Virginia – More than 30 innocent people were killed and 50 more were injured last weekend in two mass shootings that shook…

A new law restored driving privileges to 30,000 Virginians whose licenses were previously suspended due to unpaid court fines, but tens of thousands more eligible Virginians must enroll before next year to get their licenses back. Civil rights advocates are concerned that a lack of public awareness over who is eligible and who gets automatically…

A federal judge has sanctioned white nationalists for stalling litigation in a case connected to the deadly attacks in Charlottesville two years ago. The judge on Friday fined Elliot Kline, Matthew Heimbach, and the white supremacist group Vanguard America for refusing to participate in the discovery process, the Associated Press reports. He called their behavior…

Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all of today’s Virginia news coming right up. And if you’re a fan, please forward to three friends who need to know what’s going on in the Commonwealth and tell them to subscribe here.  But First… Two churches in rural Virginia are caught in controversy tied to…

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe might not be running a campaign, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at his packed schedule or by listening to his polished, election-ready commentary on Virginia politics. As of Friday, the former governor of Virginia had made 57 stops across the Commonwealth over the last six weeks. “It’s killing…

When black students learn from black teachers, good things happen — attitudes toward school improve, cutting class becomes less enticing, and grades go up, according to a report from The Commonwealth Institute, a Richmond-based think tank. But with Virginia’s “overwhelmingly” white education workforce, many minority students rarely or never take a class with an instructor…

A Dogwood news story about mold in a Northern Virginia classroom that made students sick underwhelmed many Virginians on Twitter, who said they’ve seen far worse in their state’s public schools. Below, we round-up their grossest tales. But first, for context, here’s the original tweet. That big splotch of mold in the photo, the likes…

Getting medicine to victims of the opioid epidemic in Virginia is not a problem of drug availability, it’s a race against time. That’s why Dr. Joseph Ornato and engineering students at Virginia Commonwealth University are working to cheat time by developing a program where naloxone, an antidote to opioid overdoses, will be delivered via drone.…