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Here’s a recap of the top stories on the morning of Tuesday, April 13, 2021:
A December traffic stop in southeast Virginia, of a uniformed Army officer, has prompted Gov. Ralph Northam to call for an investigation. One of the officers involved has since been fired.
For months, workers at several VCU projects and the new General Assembly building say they’ve been denied overtime pay and other benefits, despite meeting IRS criteria to receive them. The group held a car rally on VCU’s campus yesterday to bring attention to these allegations.
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Introduction
As natural disasters increase in frequency and intensity, communities across the country have sought state policy solutions. Disaster seasons of the last few years have broken records across the board. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria and 14 others made 2017 the costliest hurricane season on record. It would also have been the most destructive wildfire season on record, if not for 2018, the nation’s deadliest and most destructive year ever, featuring the deadliest single fire in a century―the Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif. The mega-fires of 2020 are still fresh in the nation’s mind―a year that gave California five of its six largest fires in state history, Colorado its single largest fire ever, and temporarily propelled air pollution in some cities to among the worst in the world. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the nation averaged nearly 12 “billion-dollar” disasters annually over the past decade―up from less than f