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“We did it! Someone is gonna look after our kids!”
Those were the words of Del. Destiny LeVere Bolling (D–Henrico) last month as she embraced Valerie Slater, executive director of the nonprofit RISE for Youth.
The Virginia Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee had just unanimously approved HB438, a bill LeVere Bolling introduced to create a diversion program that would keep certain delinquent youths out of the court system.
She said the bill would help people like her foster son, who got in trouble when he was in middle school, but has since turned his life around.
“He’s doing really amazing things as a second-year college student that I’m very proud of,” LeVere Bolling said. “I know that not all communities have the power and the resources to be a community ‘village’ to help students like that.”
BizSense Beat: Scottwood development, Cavallo returns to Martin, Varina restaurant-ranch
BizSense Beat is a weekly collaboration between VPM News and Richmond BizSense that recaps the region’s top business stories.
This week, BizSense’s Jackie DiBartolomeo joins host Lyndon German to talk about an $11 million real estate deal along West Broad Street, Kristen Cavallo returning for her third stint as CEO of The Martin Agency and the owner of Chicken Fiesta making plans for a unique new restaurant and events venue in eastern Henrico County.
This week in VPM News Shorts
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On Tuesday, energy and environment reporter Patrick Larsen ran through some safety tips that might come in handy during fire season in Virginia. And Dean Mirshahi closed the week unpacking his reporting on several gun bills — including an assault weapons ban — that Gov. Abigail Spanberger is expected to sign.
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