Gene Marrano
One very interested spectator at the Toyota Owners 400 Monster Energy NASCAR race last month in Richmond was one of that capital city’s most notable residents: Governor Ralph Northam.
With everything else making news in Washington these days the debate over health care has taken a back seat. But US Senator Tim Kaine may want to put it on the front burner again as WFIR’s Gene Marrano reports:
Its “Teacher Appreciation Week” and Virginia First Lady Pam Northam – an elementary school science teacher in the past – was at Monterey Elementary School in Roanoke today to meet with students. Northam also read to a third grade class and showed them how to make “slime” – while she talked about “long chain polymers.” All week long cabinet officials and others in the Northam administration will be out on the road teaching classes. The Governor himself will teach neuroscience to A-P high school students on Thursday.
The Mountain Valley Pipeline won’t be coming through Roanoke City – but projections from MVP show a 2-percent rise in Roanoke River sediment levels. City Council got an update on future plans yesterday, as WFIR’s Gene Marrano reports:
The chair of the “Building Name Designation Review Committee” that is looking at possibly changing the name of Stonewall Jackson Middle School in Southeast Roanoke says they are poring over the citizen comments received. Dr. Eli Jamison made that comment at a joint City Council-School Board briefing this morning. Jamison says that data comes from 800 online surveys and three public meetings, with comments from those for and against renaming the school – which now honors a Confederate general.
Carilion Clinic President and CEO Nancy Agee has been chair of the American Hospital Association board since January but her formal investiture took place over the weekend.
You may have heard or even participated in a “Spartan Race” – which involves obstacles, mud pits and the like – now there’s one coming here in July for kids as WFIR’s Gene Marrano reports: