Angie Miles
Host/ProducerAngie Miles, Host/Producer, is one of Virginia’s most experienced broadcast journalists, known for her decades of anchoring at WTVR CBS 6 and WWBT NBC 12 in Richmond, and reporting at WVIR in Charlottesville and WVPT in Harrisonburg. She founded a literacy nonprofit called HAPPY Reading and taught broadcast news at Virginia Commonwealth University. Miles holds two degrees from the University of Virginia, a B.A. in Communications and an M.A. in Education. With deep connections across Virginia, Miles will anchor the show and host VPM News Focal Point and special broadcasts.
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WatchHoward Zehr, often called the “grandfather” of restorative justice speaks about his role in the movement, and how it is shaped by indigenous traditions and cultures. -
WatchThe first veterans treatment docket in Virginia was established in Fairfax in 2015, and since that time, there are eight additional courts. Fairfax also has drug and mental health treatment dockets—all meant to provide mentors and special services so that individuals can avoid jail and cure the issues that led to their issues with law enforcement.
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WatchTax levies and losses bring people together in government meeting rooms, in auditoriums, on courthouse steps and even at country clubs, as properties with unpaid taxes are auctioned to the highest bidders. Except for developers and investors, not many people talk about the people and the stories behind those properties that change hands to pay the localities’ bills.
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WatchIn the early 1900s, Black Americans owned 19 million acres of land—today that number has dwindled to three million acres. Land loss often occurs when a landowner dies without a will. And when there is confusion about unpaid real estate taxes, the land is at risk of being auctioned by local governments. We speak with Kajsa Foskey, who is fighting to protect family land and Parker Agelasto.
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WatchA church planted in the midst of a working farm, complete with horses and pigs, partnered with neighboring congregations to retire the medical debt of neighbors in four nearby localities. They worked through the New York-based RIP Medical Debt to give neighbors a fresh start. Pastor Justin Moore and his wife were inspired by other churches that had taken on similar projects.
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WatchA JMU graduate paid off $60,000 off student loan debt in 5 years. She says the key to her success came down to finding the right community.
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WatchDeone Allen spoke at length with VPM News Focal Point this week, saying that families have reached their limit and will no longer tolerate their children being mistreated. She is calling for swift and serious consequences for students who subject others to verbal attacks and for the school board as well as the community to take decisive action to remedy the problems.
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WatchCasino gambling has come to Virginia. Some of the projects include Indigenous people as owners. In Danville, ownership is 49.5% each Caesar’s Virginia and the Eastern Band Cherokee Indians with 1% of the ownership local to Danville.
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WatchArchaeologist and UVA Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Hantman speaks about the role archaeology plays in protecting Virginia’s Indigenous tribes.
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WatchA Harrisonburg teacher, husband and father suffered a traumatic brain injury after a sudden illness. He explains how it changed his life and what it’s like to live with an invisible disability.
