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Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all the Virginia news that’s been happening coming right up. But First… Amazon posted the first job listings for its new Arlington County location on Monday, while fellow big tech giant Microsoft announced it will open a 15,000-square-foot high-tech community space in Halifax County as…

James Madison University and the College of William & Mary are the latest public universities in Virginia to freeze their tuition rates for in-state undergraduate students. Earlier this year, the Virginia General Assembly passed an education incentive package, which provides public universities additional funding in exchange for maintaining current tuition rates. In response, a several…

Almost two years have passed since the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, but President Trump continues to stand by his controversial comments regarding the rally. It was August 2017 when a group of white supremacists converged on Charlottesville for a rally that ended with a white supremacist murdering counter protester Heather Heyer. What…

From Virginia Beach to Charlottesville to Fairfax County, immigrants helped grow the economies of dozens of Virginia localities and cut population loss by at least 10%, according to a new analysis by Stateline, a project of the Pew Charitable Trust. This comes on the heels of American population growth hitting an 80-year low in 2018,…

Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all the Virginia news that’s been happening coming right up.  But First… Despite a chaotic, rain-plagued opening day, Pharell’s Something in the Water festival was largely successful and a follow-up is already being planned next year. We’re jealous of anyone who got to…

Virginia’s teachers are the third most underpaid in the nation when compared to other college-educated workers, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal-leaning think tank. In the last four years, the weekly pay of Virginia teachers has fallen 31% behind the pay of other college-educated workers in the state. The report…

Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all the Virginia news that’s been happening coming right up. But First… Absentee voting begins today for the June 11 Virginia primary elections. You can vote absentee at your local voter registration office, or by mail. But to vote absentee, you must…

President Trump made waves on Friday by indicating that he was once again going to target Obamacare. Appearing at the NRA Convention in Indianapolis, Trump boasted about eliminating the individual mandate and indicated he was once again targeting the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA). Trump’s on-again off-again obsession with repealing Obamacare has been well documented, as…

Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all the Virginia news that’s been happening coming right up. But First… It’s official. Former Vice President Joe Biden announced he’s running for president on Thursday, releasing a video that focused heavily on the deadly Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and…

Former Vice President Joe Biden announced his candidacy for President on Thursday, becoming the 20th Democrat to seek the party’s nomination in 2020. The former Senator from Delaware launched his campaign by releasing a video online that focused on the deadly Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville in August, 2017. Biden recounts the protest and…