The first televised debate of Virginia’s Democratic gubernatorial primary started out tame Tuesday evening, with almost 25 minutes of civil discussion about how the five candidates onstage plan to lead the state out of it.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have also issued interim guidance for K-12 testing, which is largely mirrored by VDH in its own reopening guidelines for schools.

In 1990, near the height of the AIDS crisis, national lawmakers passed an omnibus spending bill that set aside federal funding for HIV treatment and services.

The state has long grappled with outdated and omissive curricula that, in many cases, mischaracterize important moments in African American history, experts say.

A statewide audit of Virginia’s 2020 election results verified President Joe Biden’s victory in the state, finding only a 0.00000065117 percent chance the state’s voting system could have produced an inaccurate outcome.

The bill is now before Gov. Ralph Northam, who voiced support this week for moving up the date. He has until Wednesday to propose amendments to the bill, which the General Assembly would take up on April 7.

The bill, awaiting action by Gov. Ralph Northam, establishes a state-administered program that would offer IRA accounts to workers with no other retirement plan options, particularly employees of small businesses, self-employed people and gig workers.

When the bill died again this year, after months of meetings by the workgroup that failed to produce concrete proposals to fix staffing shortages, advocates say, that made it 17 times in a row.

The prison system began vaccinating prisoners in January, offering free email stamps (fees inmates pay to send emails), telephone credits and snacks to inmates who agreed to take the vaccine.

Her attorney, Tim Anderson, said preventing termination was “the specific purpose” of her pending lawsuit, which she filed shortly after she was put on paid leave on March 5.