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Gov. Ralph Northam continued to pitch himself as Virginia’s most progressive governor during Wednesday’s State of the Commonwealth address.

Richmond's urbanized area sprawls through three counties and four cities, but economist say dense developments could be encouraged through a change on the tax code.

People who live in poverty, globally and in Virginia, are bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the three Richmond ZIP codes with the lowest poverty rates, people are 34% less likely to have been infected than those living in the three ZIP codes with the most poverty. An inequitable vaccine rollout threatens to push that disparity further.

Children have borne a larger share of COVID-19 infections in the past two months. While Virginia's level of community spread remains below January's peak, infections in children under 10 have skyrocketed up to and past that point.

Several hospitals in Central Virginia are violating federal regulations that require them to post prices they negotiate with insurers for thousands of medications, procedures and other services.

Last month, the Virginia departments of health and education jointly put out guidance to schools on how to safely reopen for the fall. They recommended, but did not require, local school districts adopt universal masking, at least in elementary schools.

Remembered for Civil War spycraft, other details of the woman known as Mary Richards Bowser have been forgotten - including her ongoing role in equal rights movements and the last name she used through most of her life, Denman.

President Joe Biden proposed a $1.8 trillion dollar spending package last month, which could dramatically reduce the child poverty rate nationwide. It would support a broader Democratic push to eradicate the condition.

Gov. Ralph Northam struck a celebratory tone Monday while updating Virginians on the state’s response to COVID-19 and vaccination progress.

Virginia has one of the lowest union membership rates of any state. In 2020, only 4.4% of Virginia workers were union members, fifth lowest in the nation. But unions have a long history in the commonwealth, flourishing around the turn of the 20th century in industrial Richmond and the coalfields of the Southwest before union density began to fall in the 1950s.