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If Youngkin signs this, there's a better chance you can get an RV quick-charge at a far-flung state park in the commonwealth. Still not a lot of money behind the fund. cardinalnews.org/2025/02/25/f...

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The latest in the Tech Town! series: Roanoke directs some resources to Virginia Western Community College to train lab techs. Some of the students' work centers on the immortal Henrietta Lacks' cells. cardinalnews.org/2025/02/25/t...

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Big budget doings in Richmond help big projects in SWVA. cardinalnews.org/2025/02/21/g...

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Susan Cameron for @cardinalnews.org covering the aftermath of what she reports is "the fourth major flooding event in Southwest Virginia since the summer of 2021." cardinalnews.org/2025/02/17/w...

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Read about how biotech and medical research transformed a big slice of Roanoke's skyline. cardinalnews.org/2025/02/18/t...

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Trouble for Riverside Center. cardinalnews.org/2025/02/12/v...

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Been working on this series for months. Here's the intro. Look for four more pieces over the next four Tuesdays. cardinalnews.org/2025/02/11/t...

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@cardinalnews.org put a lens on police cameras. cardinalnews.org/2025/02/10/s...

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In this case, "clean rooms" are more than simply spic and span. cardinalnews.org/2025/02/07/r...

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I'm following state legislation on data centers this session ... cardinalnews.org/2025/02/06/w...

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Big news for biotech growth in Southwest Virginia.

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Goodyear to cut 850 jobs at Danville plant

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NYT reports an air traffic controller’s seat was empty at DCA last night www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

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Classic thread

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Hello friends, We need to talk about A.I, (Longform Thread) There is much bad information in the public conscience about AI and its current state, its future, and what it can and cannot do. There are serious dangers to the technology, but they may not be what you think. Whereas, 1/82

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God Speed Garth Hudson. The last surviving member of The Band. Garth was one of the first people to play the clavinet with a wah wah pedal. A familiar sound that 70's funk bands utilized quite often. He was a magician. Up On Cripple Creek

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In one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, whose case had become a rallying cry for the Indigenous movement in the nearly 50 years since his conviction for killing two FBI agents.

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Elon having a normal one

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Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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K so bluesky's version of TikTok actually has potential

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This is so classic. defector.com/a-tale-of-tw...

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The Biden administration won't do anything about TikTok on the one day it could do something about TikTok. If the app's that big a threat, as they said for years, how to explain this? apnews.com/article/tikt...

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Agh!!

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Bob Uecker, an MLB catcher who turned his tales of inferiority into a second career as a popular sportscaster, died on Thursday at 90. nyti.ms/4jnpX9N

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🎙️ Ep. 2 of The Cardinal podcast drops tomorrow, 1/15! Host Dutchie Jessee & education reporter Lisa Rowan explore school cell phone bans. ⚖️ Legal & policy impacts ❓ Consequences for schools & families Subscribe now! 🎧 #Podcast #VirginiaNews #Education Available wherever you get your podcasts

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Fun! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/n...

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Snow dog

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More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”

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A man in North Carolina who fired a rifle inside a Washington restaurant in 2016 because he wrongly believed an internet conspiracy known as Pizzagate was fatally shot by the police in North Carolina over the weekend when he pulled out a gun during a traffic stop, the authorities said.

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Hoover and Nixon tried but failed to outrun or outwork their unhappy presidential legacies. Like John Quincy Adams before him, Carter will mostly be remembered for what came after his time in the White House.

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Welcome to the public domain, THE KARNIVAL KID (1929), where #MickeyMouse speaks his first dialog—though not in Walt Disney's iconic falsetto! 🐭 🎞️ Learn more: blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...

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Elizabeth Cotten, folk/blues music pioneer, was born on this day in 1895. She taught herself to play the guitar and banjo as a child. She was left-handed but she played a guitar for a right-hander, meaning she played everything upside down. A little thread!

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President, humanitarian, strike thrower

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Breaking News: Rickey Henderson, baseball’s all-time leader in stolen bases and one of the sport’s most charismatic players, has died at 65. nyti.ms/3ZPAvFz

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Belichick vs student journalists I can’t wait to see it UNC has one of the top journalism programs

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White Claw and Truly

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You can get anything you want, excepting Alice

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Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts diner was immortalized in Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 song “Alice’s Restaurant,” died on Thursday — just a week before Thanksgiving, the holiday during which the story at the center of the song takes place. She was 83.

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Moon dressed up as Uranus

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To all who celebrate

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Science!

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Here’s my latest piece for #cardinalnews - cardinalnews.org/2023/11/27/a...

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Spent a day in Pulaski County recently to survey the green scene. Vertical farming in an abandoned school, with a carbon capture mechanism to loop around the Co2, is intriguing. cardinalnews.org/2023/11/16/p...

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