Mayor Stoney officially kicks off re-election campaign
Mayor Levar M. Stoney officially launched his bid for a second four-year term with a show of support from the state’s top elected Democrat, Gov. Ralph S. Northam.
Attorney General Mark Herring to run for re-election
Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring has decided he wants to keep his job, rather than making a bid to become Virginia’s 74th governor.
Annual Labor Day political event to go virtual
Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott’s Annual Labor Day Picnic is going virtual.
Labor Day holiday schedule
In observance of Labor Day on Monday, Sept. 7, please note the following:
Nearly 15 percent of city inmates under COVID-19 quarantine
The number of COVID-19 cases has risen sharply at the Richmond City Justice Center, Sheriff Antionette V. Irving has reported.
Families of federal inmates to show support on Sept. 5
Relatives of prisoners at the federal prison complex near Petersburg plan to make some noise to let the inmates know they are not forgotten at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5.
Athlete power: ‘Shut up and play’ is tossed from the game
The sports world came to a halt last week as leagues postponed professional men’s and women’s basketball games, football practices, soccer matches, baseball games, hockey playoffs and tennis competitions as players protested the shooting of a Black man by police …
Eric English to become Henrico’s first Black police chief
For the first time in its history, Henrico County will have an African-American police chief.
Not again
Suddenly there is a new name and a new face to remind people that the lesson of George Floyd has not sunk in among many in the police rank and file.
Trump uses Black people to defend him at RNC
President Trump has aggressively asserted control over the Republican National Convention, a four-day event that started Monday and featured African-Americans defending the president’s history of racist rhetoric and actions. Former NFL star Herschel Walker, speaking on the opening night, defended …
Former city councilman pushing African-American perspective missing in Lee statue lawsuit
New drama is about to be injected into the already charged legal fight over removing the last and largest offensive Confederate statue from Monument Avenue — the one to slavery’s top military defender, Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Free COVID-19 testing
Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.
State watchdog agency examining special education system
First came a scathing federal report on the failure of the Virginia Department of Education to effectively monitor the special education programs that local public school divisions provide to children with learning disabilities and mental challenges.
Questions abound on whether city money for slavery memorial is available
Where’s the money?
City rent and mortgage assistance program to get additional $8M in federal funds
City Hall will pump an additional $8 million into a rent and mortgage assistance program in a bid to help hundreds of strug- gling Richmond families avoid eviction.
