State DOT dumps stalled $7.3B private developer approach of previous administration, but with public funding not in hand, design and construction is years away.
State DOT dumps stalled $7.3B private developer approach of previous administration, but with public funding not in hand, design and construction is years away.
More than 100 people gathered at Kent State University's Trumbull Campus in Warren Friday on a topic that affects every level of society in every class: addiction.
The Virginia Parole Board has issued a report that outlines its past problems and the steps it could take to rebuild public trust. The work began in 2021, when Governor Glenn Youngkin issued an Executive Order firing the previous parole board and requesting a review of its duties, procedures and administration. Chadwick Dotson, Virginia Parole Board chair and report author, said the biggest issue is the parole board s lack of transparency in decision making - in part because other reports about its investigations had been heavily redacted by the State Inspector General s Office. .
Virginia is the only Southern state to have abolished the death penalty, and there s a new push in the new year to end it nationally as well. Almost 300 organizations are demanding that President Joe Biden abolish the federal death penalty. This comes as members of Congress have sent a letter to that effect to both Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland. .