WMRA Daily Bob Leweke

VMI's chief diversity officer resigns after nearly two years of constant backlash from White alumni and students… Senator Tim Kaine says he’s pushing the Postal Service to improve mail delivery in areas that are still not getting proper service… Jeff Schapiro surveys the week that was in Virginia politics and government….

Virginia joins other Republican-led states in sending National Guard troops to the border with Mexico… The primary contest between incumbent Senator Creigh Deeds and challenger Delegate Sally Hudson near Charlottesville is drawing more votes than any other in the state in early voting… Albemarle County plans to buy a large tract of land to attract new defense department contracts to the area….

Environmentalists are dismayed that the debt ceiling agreement would approve all the remaining permits to complete the stalled Mountain Valley Pipeline… Meanwhile, members of Virginia’s General Assembly are at a standstill with their budget amendments, and the deadline is just a month away… A centuries-old document discovered in Rockingham County reveals an assassination attempt against George Washington….

Charlottesville’s Daily Progress and other daily Virginia papers owned by an Iowa-based company move to publishing three times a week… Today is the deadline to create or update voter registration before Virginia’s primary elections on June 20th… Full Disclosure’s Roben Farzad discusses the squeeze that local cable providers are feeling as a result of the growth of streaming services….

One study says Virginia is safer for teenage drivers than most other states… The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on a case involving the Clean Water Act could have environmental impacts on Virginia for years to come… A Virginia Beach engineer is one of four people in the country chosen by NASA to test out living on Mars….

Another man from Virginia faces sentencing in the January 6th insurrection… Transfers to the immigrant detention center in Farmville are paused after three people test positive for COVID-19… Students and faculty from UVA and five other Virginia universities meet in Charlottesville to help ensure that future elections in the commonwealth are fair, and results can be trusted….