Keya Vakil

The Danville Public School district is stepping up to make sure its students get lunch during the summer, even though schools aren’t in session. WDBJ reports that the district paid $42,000 for a food truck that serves free lunch to kids under 18 while school is out of session. Lunch is available every Monday through…

Virginia voters went to the polls Tuesday to decide the Democratic or Republican nominees in 16 state Senate races and 19 House of Delegates races. The night saw a handful of surprise victories in what were mostly low-turnout elections, but of the 14 incumbents facing primaries, only two lost. But one key takeaway from yesterday’s…

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More than 3.4 million Virginians live with a pre-existing condition, but State Sen. Glen Sturtevant (R-Midlothian) and his fellow Republicans voted this year to allow insurance companies to sell short-term insurance plans that are not required to cover people with pre-existing conditions. These short-term plans, which have been encouraged by President Trump, would have allowed…

Amazon will donate $3 million to the Arlington Community Foundation, a non-profit that supports affordable housing and fights homelessness, the company announced on Tuesday. The donation comes as housing prices are surging in Arlington and advocates and lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va), have called on Amazon to do more to help solve…

Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is now officially the acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Trump administration announced on Monday. By tagging Cuccinelli with the ‘acting’ label instead of naming him the permanent director of the agency, Trump avoids a Senate confirmation hearing for a nominee who has drawn the…

Roughly 650 staffers at the Hampton VA Medical Center are among the 250,000 unionized employees taking on the Department of Veteran Affairs in contract talks, according to the Daily Press. Members of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 2328 have twice gathered outside the Hampton VA campus as they hope to raise awareness of…

More than 180 CEOs, including leaders from H&M, Yelp, Warby Parker, and Bloomberg LP published a letter in a full-page ad in Monday’s New York Times, criticizing the recent string of abortion bans across the United States. The signers of the letter, whose companies employ more than 108,000 workers, wrote that the “future of gender…

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Happy Sunday, Virginia. If you’re like us, sitting on your couch and trying to figure out what to do with your day (or week or month), check out our list of this week’s events, including several ways to celebrate Pride month across Virginia. ICYMI: 5 things that happened this week…  Virginia Beach shooting shatters community and…