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Richmond City Council signs off on bag tax, postpones speed camera vote
Monday night, Richmond City Council voted to institute a 5-cent tax on plastic bags at grocery and convenience stores in the city, starting Jan. 1, 2026.
Council also received an update on the situation at the city’s Douglasdale Road water treatment plant and postponed a vote on plans to add more speed cameras at high-risk intersections including the 600 and 700 blocks of South Belvidere Street — located in Councilor Stephanie Lynch’s 5th District.
Read more from Monday’s meeting here.
BizSense Beat: Innsbrook development, Fortune 500, SMART SCALE, and more
BizSense Beat is a weekly collaboration between VPM News and Richmond BizSense that recaps the region’s top business stories.
This week, Jack Jacobs of BizSense joins host Lyndon German to talk about plans for a new mixed-use retail hub in Innsbrook, Genworth Financial falling out of the Fortune 500 for the first time in years, $18 million in state funding for transportation infrastructure in New Kent County and more.
This week in VPM News Shorts: Richmond water, public media funding
What happened this week in VPM News Shorts?
Chris Suarez looked into a canceled FEMA grant that the City of Richmond says would not have prevented the recent boil water advisory, and VPM President and CEO Jayme Swain called on the public to ask Congress to protect federal funding for public media.
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