Elle Meyers

Over the past four years, there has been one overwhelming feeling weighing on 19-year-old Flor Selena Caceres: stress.  That could be chalked up to her academic career. Caceres signed up for every class she could fit into her schedule in high school, and has continued that as a double major at Lafayette College. Or it…

Gov. Ralph Northam said he is calling on circuit court judges to extend the state’s eviction moratorium, which is scheduled to end on June 28.  Virginia’s Supreme Court originally implemented the moratorium on evictions in March, as businesses closed down and residents lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic. The temporary moratorium, which was…

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday that he plans to further relax restrictions on businesses and public gatherings next week for all of Virginia assuming localities don’t decide to delay. As the state began its gradual reopening over the last couple of months the Northern Virginia region and the city of Richmond decided to delay…

In 2017, Charlottesville became the focal point of white supremacy in America when it was the unwilling host of the Unite the Right Rally. During the two-day riot, a counter protester was killed, and the fallout led Charlottesville’s police chief to retire after considerable criticism of his department’s handling of the rally. The city council…

Gov. Ralph Northam announced that Virginia will not be entering Phase Three of coronavirus recovery this week. He said that the state would enter Phase Three no earlier than June 26. Northam explained that Virginia’s health metrics continue to trend in a positive direction, but the state is not ready yet to further loosen restrictions.…

Tyson’s Virginia plant had over 250 COVID-19 cases. It closed for only three days. In Virginia, meatpacking factories have largely stayed open during the coronavirus pandemic, despite becoming COVID-19 hot spots. An argument for doing that was the security of America’s food supply chain, but new reports indicate the companies continued exporting meat to China…

Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday that he will propose legislation to designate Juneteenth, which celebrates the day that all slaves in the U.S were freed, as a paid state holiday in Virginia.  Northam said that in the past the state has recognized Juneteenth with an annual written proclamation.  “That’s nice,” he said, “but we need…

Protests and rallies across the country erupted, seemingly overnight, when the video of police killing George Floyd went viral. But the demonstrations against racial injustice are not conjured out of thin air. It took people in communities throughout Virginia, some for the very first time, to organize their fellow citizens. Below we profile three people…

A racist congressman from Virginia tried to stop the Civil Rights Act, but 56 years later his amendment got more legal protections for LGBTQ Americans. In a landmark decision Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that federal law protects LGBTQ people from workplace discrimination. The ruling has been a long time coming in the fight for…

Local chambers of commerce throughout Virginia play an influential role lobbying on behalf of businesses big and small on legislation under consideration in the General Assembly.  After Democrats won the House of Delegates and Senate in Virginia for the first time in a decade, some chambers finally dropped opposition to increasing the state’s minimum wage,…