Community health centers, THC bill and RPS immigration policy

• Virginia community health centers close over federal funding access

• Youngkin-backed effort to set THC impairment level on worksites fails

• Richmond School Board declares immigration ‘safe zone’ at public schools (also available in Spanish — and on YouTube in English and Spanish)

• Bill requiring solar planning framework dies, returns, dies again

• Judge denies city of Richmond’s dismissal motion in whistleblower lawsuit

Budget season at the General Assembly

Shaban Athuman

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VPM News

Try as he (jokingly) might, state Sen. Todd Pillion (R–Abingdon) couldn't hide from the praise of Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougle (R–Hanover) after the Senate voted 38–2 to pass its budget amendments Thursday. (The House of Delegates also voted overwhelmingly to pass its own budget proposal.)

"We have spent many late nights working on this, Republicans and Democrats," McDougle said of the chamber's Finance and Appropriations committee. "Yes, Sen. Pillion — you were there too."

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BizSense Beat: Embezzlement plea, Chesterfield data center, Duke's ads

BizSense Beat is a weekly collaboration between VPM News and Richmond BizSense that recaps the region’s top business stories.

This week, host Lyndon German talks to BizSense reporter Jonathan Spiers about an embezzlement plea by the Maryland developer behind a multimillion-dollar South Richmond apartment project, a request for a new Chesterfield County data center and the Richmond advertising firm behind a Duke’s Mayo Bowl ad campaign starring rap legend Flavor Flav.

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