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In 2020, the UN designated Israeli company Energix as a violator of human rights, today the company is rapidly expanding into the United States.
: : Workers block off Virginia's Capitol ahead of the Jan. 2020 gun rally. (Crixell Matthews/VPM) Just 13% of Virginia’s spending on state contracts and procurement went to women- and minority-owned businesses from 2014 to 2019, according to a report released on Friday. Gov. Ralph Northam, who commissioned the study via executive order in 2019, said its findings were proof Virginia needed to do more to reach those businesses. “State contracting, which represents more than $6 billion annually, can be a powerful tool to create economic opportunity,” Northam said in a s...
: Jennifer Boysko, right, at a press conference last year. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News) Last year, 51 year-old Terrence Walker lost his wife, Tracy, to colon cancer. She died in their bedroom, a few doors down from the living room where they were married. Walker’s coworkers at Virginia Commonwealth University pooled enough leave to allow him some time to mourn. “I felt powerless to do anything about the decline of her life,” Walker said. “I never thought that she would die before the age of 50.” Walker spent the previous six and a half years sprinting between hospita...