Page 26 - Mayor Levar News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

: FILE PHOTO: Richmond City Hall (Crixell Matthews/VPM News) Richmond City Council approved a resolution Monday night, calling for the city’s homeless service providers to enact policies that affirm people’s gender identity and sexual orientation. While the city doesn’t own or operate any shelters, it does act as a pass-through for millions in federal funding. According to Richmond officials, approximately $7.5 million in federal grants and CARES Act funding has been distributed to homeless service providers this year.  The resolution calls on these providers to ensure that ...

Mayor Stoney Mayor Levar M. Stoney sees bright prospects ahead for Richmond if COVID-19 can be defeated quickly. Ready to start his second four-year term next week, he has ideas galore, but he said the key to it all is “vaccination.” He is counting on the federal government to rapidly roll out the injectable medications so that the broader population can be treated and gain immunity so there can be a return to normalcy. In an interview, Mayor Stoney said in an effort to counter community misgivings, he plans to be first in line when one or more of the approved vaccines becomes...

How are you? Nothing has been simple in 2020, neither questions nor answers. With its first confirmed case in Virginia on March 7, COVID-19 and the virus that causes it, SARS-CoV-2, tore through communities and separated loved ones. It wreaked uncertainty and unknowns, masks and mandates, loneliness, fear, anger, exhaustion and mourning. The new coronavirus has affected every person, every day, in almost every way: careers, finances, education, nutrition, housing, faith, business, politics, travel, family and relationships. It’s changed how people connect with the world and each other. It h...