RICHMOND – The Senate joined the House Tuesday in unanimously approving a bill that requires Virginia jails and prisons to provide inmates with free feminine hygiene products such as pads and tampons.
If Gov. Ralph Northam signs it, House Bill 83 would take effect in July.
Steve Zylich, parent of students at Woodbridge High School, shared with us this article about the Woodbridge High School Robotics team:
On Friday, February 16th and Saturday, February 17th, the Woodbridge Senior High School Robotics Team participated in the Virginia VEX Robotics State Championships. Of the 56 teams from all over Virginia, nine of them were from WSHS. Teams went to the state tournament to vie for the state title and the right to move on to the VEX World Championships. Five of the school’s nine robots got through the round robin qualifiers and continued to compete in the playoffs for the title. In the end, WSHS Team 1575 X made it to the finals on an alliance with Team 177V from Richmond and 8086A from Glenn Allen. In the finals they defeated an alliance made up of three teams from the Potomac School (12C, 12G, and 12J) from Mclean. Team 1575X captained by both Daniel Diaz and James Tsai and team members: Heath Bahm, Kayla Yarbrough, Kimiya Farzinfar, Adam Culbertson, and Peter Benitez finished the day as State Tournament Champions. This year, WSHS will be sending only one robot to compete against the world in the VEX World Robotics Championships to be held in Louisville, KY from April 25th to April 28nd at the Kentucky Expo Center. There they will match designs and wits with 540 teams from all over the world. Congratulations Woodbridge for seven consecutive appearances in the VEX World Tournament!
Week Seven of the General Assembly brought some focus to the state’s budget situation and movement on a few important bills of the session.
On Tuesday we debated our respective budget amendments. The budgets are separated by a massive revenue gulf due to Medicaid. The House of Delegates’ budget included Medicaid Expansion with a work requirement. The Senate Budget did not.
Brought to us by VDOT:
FREDERICKSBURG – The Virginia Department of Transportation will close the Interstate 95 southbound on-ramp from Courthouse Road in Stafford County next week to allow crews to finish work on the temporary ramp.
Here’s what the VDOT press release has to say:
WOODBRIDGE – Route 1 traffic will be shifting onto new pavement Friday, March 2 and then Monday, March 5, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Officials are reviewing a project that would add a 4th travel lane on Interstate 95 south in Prince William County.
The lane would run from Route 123 to Prince William County and push back a bottleneck on the highway drivers face as the cross the Occoquan River, where the highway’s regular travel lanes reduce from eight to six.
On March 24, Prince William County and the City of Manassas will host their annual History Symposium at the Old Manassas Courthouse.
This year’s theme is “Growing Roots” and topics will cover the diverse 300-year history of Prince William County and Manassas.
Stafford Hospital is excited to announce it is celebrating its ninth birthday on Tuesday, February 27.
Since its grand opening, Stafford Hospital has been committed to providing quality healthcare and services to our patients. In nine years, we have delivered over 6,000 babies and cared for over 290,000 people in our Emergency Department as well as 50,000 inpatients.
WOODBRIDGE — On a cool, damp, muddy morning in the homeless camp behind a shopping center, his is the only campsite where blue smoke billows.
Pots and pans, all charred with at least an inch of black hardened soot after years of being used over an open flame sit on a grill inside a hollowed out tree trunk used as a hearth.
