Ben Paviour
Staff Reporter, VPM NewsBen Paviour covers courts and criminal justice for VPM News with a focus on accountability.
He previously covered politics and culture in Cambodia and lived pre-journalism lives as a tech writer at Google and a program manager for a youth job training program in Alameda County, California.
Email Ben: [email protected]
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The Virginia Department of Elections sent more than 175,000 mailings to people’s home addresses, rather than PO Boxes -
Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., is running for reelection in a newly drawn district against Republican Yesli Vega as the national conversation on abortion plays out, especially with Latino voters.
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The ad was shot and produced by Poolhouse, an agency that produced more than $1.5M worth of campaign ads for Youngkin last year.
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In an email, OAG staff said the board of education allowing public comment would violate its own bylaws.
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In a Monday memo, Balow said Youngkin’s new majority on the Board of Education has raised “important concerns and questions” about the proposed standards.
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A professor of Virginia Black history at Norfolk State University recently discussed the East End hospital’s rich history.
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The Virginia Public Access Project estimated that about 40,000 people had their registrations delayed.
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Created by an executive order issued by Youngkin, the commission is working to address not just antisemitism as it’s traditionally been defined but also the "demonization of Israel."
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The proposed guidelines would require students’ guardians to give permission for children to use different pronouns from the ones they were assigned at birth.
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No other firms submitted a bid to produce the video, and the ad agency, Poolhouse, has no record of doing work for state agencies on the commonwealth’s procurement site.
