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Pod Virginia
Pod Virginia
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22 AUG 2024 · SPONSOR:
https://www.richmondforum.org/current-season/?utm_source=PodVA&utm_medium=link
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This week, Michael is joined by Mary Garner McGehee, audio producer for the Virginia Audio Collective and the new host of https://bolddominion.org/, our longtime sister show. They discuss the revamped explainer for state politics, including episodes on Virginia's recycling, minimum wage, and other state politics topics that often fly beneath the radar.
19 AUG 2024 · SPONSOR:
https://www.richmondforum.org/current-season/?utm_source=PodVA&utm_medium=link
LINKS:
https://www.patreon.com/PodVA
http://linktr.ee/JacklegMedia
https://blackvirginianews.substack.com/
IN THE NEWS:
The tradition in Virginia politics for many years was for state Democrats to remain quiet about national Democrats they did not like and didn’t want to vote for. Now things are much more explicit--and some experts are predicting more Never Trump Republicans will emerge in Virginia.
For years, schools identified how many students lived in poverty by taking a look at who received free or reduced-price lunches. That left many high-poverty students out of the equation, and the system had to be scrapped when many divisions started making meals universally available. The new way of identifying high-poverty students is based on participation in federal assistance programs, and the Department of Education estimates that 43 percent of public students are at-risk.
For many years, Pell Grants were not available to people who are incarcerated. But now the law has changed, and about 14,000 people who are incarcerated have access to the money to pay for college classes. But only 11 of Virginia's 45 prisons offer college classes.
TRIVIA: How much blood did George Washington’s doctors remove from his body the day he died?
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15 AUG 2024 · SPONSOR:
https://www.richmondforum.org/current-season/?utm_source=PodVA&utm_medium=link
LINKS:
https://www.patreon.com/PodVA
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This week, Michael and Lauren are joined by former candidate Susanna Gibson and the Poynter Institute's Kelly McBride to discuss the recent hacked information regarding Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance, the Washington Post story detailing explicit videos of Susanna, and how those stories relate to other instances of leaks and hacks through the evolving media landscape.
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12 AUG 2024 · SPONSOR:
https://www.richmondforum.org/current-season/?utm_source=PodVA&utm_medium=link
LINKS:
https://www.patreon.com/PodVA
http://linktr.ee/JacklegMedia
https://blackvirginianews.substack.com/
IN THE NEWS:
When the House of Delegate unanimously approved the appointment of Lindsey Burke to the George Mason University board of visitors, members of the General Assembly did not know that she would later play a prominent role in Project 2025. That’s the conservative think-tank plan to reshape the federal government’s functions and benefits. Now Speaker of the House Don Scott is calling on the governor to remove the co-author of Project 2025 chapter on education.
Experts say Virginia will benefit from tens of millions of dollars from the Infrastructure Act to finance energy storage for data centers. Supporters of clean energy are hopeful this program in Manassas will show how new technology can address the rising demand from data centers without the need for new energy generation from fossil fuels.
From the hills of Appalachia to the melodic tones of the Piedmont, Virginia has some of the most perplexing accents in the country. A survey conducted by language-learning platform Guide2Fluency shows Appalachia and Piedmont accents have artificial intelligence stumped.
TRIVIA: What town in Virginia is trying to withhold 3,000 emails about a proposed Amazon data center?
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8 AUG 2024 · SPONSOR:
https://www.richmondforum.org/current-season/?utm_source=PodVA&utm_medium=link
LINKS:
https://www.patreon.com/PodVA
http://linktr.ee/JacklegMedia
The Richmonder: https://richmonder.org
This week we are joined by the founder of the Richmonder and one of his new star reporters, Michael Phillips and Graham Moomaw. They explain what they hope to accomplish with the launch of the new site on Sept. 9, and they'll also share some thoughts about hot sauce.
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5 AUG 2024 · SPONSOR:
https://www.richmondforum.org/current-season/?utm_source=PodVA&utm_medium=link
LINKS:
https://www.patreon.com/PodVA
http://linktr.ee/JacklegMedia
https://blackvirginianews.substack.com/
IN THE NEWS:
In a 2019 memoir, Kamala Harris described herself as a "progressive prosecutor.” But many criminal justice reform advocates aren't so sure about her record, which includes prosecuting parents when their students were truant and notifying immigration authorities when undocumented juveniles were charged with felonies.
Trump Force 47 is the name of the Republican get-out-the-vote operation this year. It involves training sessions at various locations across Virginia where volunteers are learning about how to target potential voters in critical precincts. But will it actually expand the base?
The Fraternal Order of Police of Virginia is calling on the Virginia Association of Commonwealth's Attorneys to investigate slot-machine style devices known as skill games--specifically, Fairfax, Henrico and Portsmouth. Some of those prosecutors note that it's law enforcement's job to investigate crimes.
TRIVIA: What industry was supposed to be cultivated by Jamestown?
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1 AUG 2024 · SPONSOR:
https://www.richmondforum.org/current-season/?utm_source=PodVA&utm_medium=link
LINKS:
https://www.patreon.com/PodVA
http://linktr.ee/JacklegMedia
Jon Baliles (former Richmond City Councilman, advisor to Mayors Wilder and Stoney, and author of https://rva5x5.substack.com/joins Michael to discuss the candidates for Richmond's mayoral election, which has a unique structure that requires the winning candidate to win 5 of 9 districts to avoid a runoff.
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29 JUL 2024 · LINKS:
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IN THE NEWS:
Before Joe Biden dropped out of the race for president, several polls took a look at how Kamala Harris would do against Donald Trump in a head-to-head matchup in Virginia. Mark Rozell of the Schar School says any Democrat running against Trump would probably fare as well as Biden if not marginally better. And, he says, that could win the election.
Northern Virginia has long been the global capital of data centers, but now they are expanding to the rest of Virginia. According to the Piedmont Environmental Council, Virginia already has about 200 data centers with applications pending for 100 more. Some members of the General Assembly are sounding alarm bells on the rapid growth.
Virginia has the worst on-time delivery rates in the country ever since the United States Postal Service made changes to the Richmond Regional Processing and Delivery Center. That's a problem for newspapers that are delivered using periodical delivery rates.
TRIVIA: Which congressional district has the largest partisan lean?
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25 JUL 2024 · LINKS:
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Friend of the show Nathan Moore (station manager of https://www.wtju.net/ and writer of https://thetallnathan.substack.com/) joins Michael to discuss his tour of community radio stations in Appalachia; the importance of trust and community bonds to the public radio model, and what VP nominee J.D. Vance gets wrong about the area.
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22 JUL 2024 · LINKS:
https://www.patreon.com/PodVA
http://linktr.ee/JacklegMedia
https://blackvirginianews.substack.com/
IN THE NEWS:
President Joe Biden has dropped out of the race, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris and throwing the presidential race into total chaos. We have no precedent for this because nothing like this has ever happened. How are Virginia politicians responding?
According to the latest FBI data, crime is down across the country. Here in Virginia, crime spiked in the early 1990s and has been steadily going down ever since. Violent crime, for example, is one third of what it was at that time.
The price of new cars is going down. So are the prices for blue jeans and microwave ovens. That's according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which shows even the prices of eggs in Virginia is dropping. But the recent spike in inflation disproportionately harmed low-income people in Virginia.
TRIVIA: How many Presidential candidates (other than Trump) have received a party's nomination three times?
At the Watercooler:
- More on Biden dropping out
- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's interpretive rule on "paycheck advances" counting as loans
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