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Besides winning their primaries last night, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Hala Ayala, and Attorney General Mark Herring all have one thing in common: They live in Northern Virginia. So does Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin.
Northern Virginia has not only been the engine of Virginia’s shift to a blue state, it’s also the state’s biggest economic driver. 45 percent of all personal income in Virginia was earned by Northern Virginia residents in 2018. That’s according to Jeannette Chapman, the director of the Stephen S. Fuller Institute for Research on the Washington Region’s Economic Future at George Mason University. The top of the state accounts for two-fifths of the Virginia’s economic activity, Chapman told
Thankfully: I never saw it. Or felt it. pic.twitter.com/AafIsvpLU5
NBC News reporter Sahil Kapur
Got attacked by a cicada last night. I humbly ask the media to respect my privacy at this time.
President Biden
The President swats a cicada off of his neck before getting on Air Force One. pic.twitter.com/l0kuaLWyss
Jackie Kucinich’s chimney
My small human is currently running around screaming “Cicada Claus!” at the top of her lungs due to the cicadas that keep finding their way down the chimney. (H/t @OKnox who taught her this)
Manu Raju’s title
There have been more than 900 Tiny Desk Concerts since 2008, and until the pandemic, most of them were filmed in NPR’s headquarters, which artists visit to wedge a set in between workers’ cubicles. The most popular of all time, by video views? Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals’ August 2016 set, with 68 million views. (Surprisingly, it wasn’t BTS, who have still notched an impressive 34 million plus.) But as popular as they are with music fans, the shows are also popular with staffers. For our June 2021 feature on the network’s 50th anniversary, we asked NPR employees which gigs left the biggest impression. We couldn’t fit all of their choices into our print-magazine feature here are the choices of the dozens who answered.