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Records show the city knew of the “deteriorating condition” & “decreasing reliability” of electrical equipment dating back to 2012. But a contract wasn’t issued for replacements until 2022. The city hasn’t answered when the actual work began, but says it is happening now. WTVR CBS 6 Richmond

Richmond's April Bingham resigns as Richmond utilities director Anthony “Scott” Morris will take over the role in an interim capacity. He currently serves as director of water for Virginia DEQ and is a professional engineer, according to the release. buff.ly/42bFlzT

Want to know who received the nearly $1M in severance packages the city issued under Stoney? Too bad. All 32 agreements are being withheld as confidential personnel files under FOIA — despite other Va. localities' willingness to disclose the same info. richmond.com/news/local/gov…

Richmond has contracted with two consulting firms to investigate both the water crisis and the city's emergency's response to it. In total, it'll cost around $634,000 axios.com/local/richmond…

State health officials say Richmond's water crisis was 'completely avoidable.' Sarah Vogelsong has a lot more context here on the 2022 EPA report, which didn't actually lead to violations and sat for 2 yrs before regulators pushed for formal follow-up. richmonder.org/state-health-o…

Direct Loans, Pell Grants, and other federal student aid funds provided to individual students are not impacted by the Jan. 27, 2025, Office of Management and Budget guidance temporarily pausing federal financial assistance programs. We continue to award and disburse federal

Richmond City said it would need over $4,000 in deposits before processing WTVR CBS 6 Richmond’s requests for information related to the water treatment plant. When asked about these cost estimates, Mayor Danny Avula said he was unaware of them but would look into it. wtvr.com/news/local-new…

VCU notified faculty that for an employee to be promoted to professor, they will need a doctorate. Faculty objected, saying the value of an employee goes beyond his or her education. richmond.com/news/local/edu…

Had fun with Michael Pope Megan E. Pauly and Olivia Diaz doing the next episode of the Press Room via VPM - hear (or see!) it Monday! #valeg

Richmond did have an emergency manual for its water treatment plant. There just wasn't a copy of it at the plant on the day a big emergency hit, according to the city's preliminary after-action report richmonder.org/report-richmon…

After delaying the release of its report on the 2022 shooting, UVA is now heavily redacting it. "If they paid $1.5 million for that, then it was a waste of money," said the mother of one of the victims. "There's nothing in it that we want to know." dailyprogress.com/news/local/edu…

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2 international students and 1 recent grad at VCU had their visas revoked. At VT, 9 were affected. At GMU, 10. richmond.com/news/state-reg…

My daughter got a 50% scholarship to a private national university and she wrote to them saying, “You’re my top choice and I’ll enroll immediately if you give me $20k more.” And they did. Who knew?!

The state's water crisis report is done. It says the city's failure to maintain backup battery power was the main cause. “In contrast to the City of Richmond's report, the ODW investigation found that the water crisis was completely avoidable." richmonder.org/state-will-put…

So to recap: the State Dept revoked ~ 1200 student visas (per public accounting) which means the students would need to reapply if they left the country but could remain in status. Then ICE terminates the student records associated, tries to arrests them, but now admits this —>

For some background: we wrote about what/how VCU interprets acceptable protest. Student protestors have been playing cat and mouse with universities in Virginia since UVA students erected shanties to protest apartheid in the 80s x.com/atrupar/status…

I’m proud to have written and produced a multimedia investigative series that not only informs but gives voice to those often left unheard. FULL SERIES: vpm.org/bonair Read part 1 here — vpm.org/news/2025-04-0…

VCU is withholding the degrees of three pro-Palestine student protesters while it investigates claims they broke the student code of conduct. richmond.com/news/local/edu…

My fellowship with the Times took lots of zigs & zags, detours & dead ends, but ended here: As President Trump pledges to revive “beautiful” coal, Virginia’s coal counties have largely moved on to new ventures. But who stands to benefit? nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/…