Take a look at this week's top VPM News stories.
- Water updates: Richmond to fix water main break affecting Henrico County Sunday night
- Hanover school board appointments signal shift in educational leadership
- City of Richmond says nixed FEMA grant would not have prevented water outage
- PBS and Minnesota public TV station sue Trump White House
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Take a look at this week's top VPM News stories.
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The Earth Month proposals would help the city meet waste reduction targets.
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Dr. Norman Oliver says the cuts would damage state efforts to upgrade technology systems, and reduce opioid use and STIs.
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The mayor’s proposal includes pay increases, rate hikes and program cuts.
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The funding is still contingent on General Assembly approval.
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The phrase, reportedly coined in Richmond to persuade Virginia colonists to prepare for war, has been used by protesters across the world.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with New York Rep. Mike Lawler about Republicans' divisions that threaten to derail the ongoing budget negotiations.
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Five years after George Floyd's death, NPR's Michel Martin talks with Toluse Olorunnipa and Robert Samuels, the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of His Name is George Floyd.
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The Oval Office meeting went off the rails when President Trump started playing videos and repeating discredited claims about a "white genocide" in South Africa.
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Japan's agriculture minister resigned because of political fallout over recent comments that he "never had to buy rice." The resignation comes as the public struggles with record high prices of rice.
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Mexico's president condemned the killings and said there would not be impunity. She said she was not aware of any threats against the mayor.