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As historically high inflation draws attention to how much everyday items cost, economists say grocery sales taxes may have added importance for voters.
(Graphic by Lyvian Sieg) Welcome to Speak Easy, the Alexandria Times’ first podcast. Each month, our reporters will sit down with noteworthy residents, business owners, artists and community leaders to chat about all things Alexandria. Don’t worry about missing an episode; Speak Easy is available on the Apple Podcast app, Google Play and Spotify, and all episodes will be archived on the Times website. Episode 17: Joe Cerutti
Richmond and Henrico Develop Plan for Johnson & Johnson vaccine wvtf.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wvtf.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Jahd Khalil reports The department collaborated with VotingWorks, a non-profit organization that helps conduct Risk-Limiting Audits, a method of assessing election systems. “Our risk measurement for the presidential election was .0000065117%,” said Ginny Vander Roest of VotingWorks in a meeting with election supervisors. “The risk measurement is the possibility that we might have missed something.” “The success of Virginia’s first statewide audit reaffirms our dedication to ensuring secure and accurate elections for our voters,” said Christopher Piper, Virginia’s Commissioner of Elections in a press release. “I am proud of the hard work that our election administrators do in the Commonwealth, and this audit further exemplifies the integrity and validity of the 2020 November General Election results."
Local journalist Bridgette Adu-Wadier makes covering the news look easy. In three years, Adu-Wadier has managed to publish a range of hard-hitting stories on everything from race and equity to voter turnout and climate change. Her work has appeared in various local and national publications in print and broadcast form, and it has made her one of the most well-respected journalists in the city of Alexandria. And Adu-Wadier has yet to finish her senior year at T.C. Williams High School. Adu-Wadier, who was named one of PBS News Hour’s 20 under 20 Up and Coming Storytellers in 2020 and awarded a prestigious QuestBridge scholarship to attend Northwestern University this coming fall, said that reporting has been anything but easy.
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