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Virginia gives businesses a break on unemployment insurance taxes | Govt. & Politics
State officials said that will protect Virginia businesses from having to pay an additional $200 million to replenish the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund. Northam signed the General Assembly’s special session budget that included $210 million to partly replenish the unemployment insurance trust fund. That means Virginia is using federal stimulus money to help pay …
BREAKING: N. Va. Expected to Reopen, Masks Required on Friday
Arlington and Northern Virginia are expected to begin a phased reopening on Friday. “That’s the plan,” Gov. Ralph Northam said of the partial reopening during a Tuesday afternoon press conference. The region will be joining much of the rest of the state, which started its “Phase 1” reopening on May 15. The first phase of the reopening …
Virginia’s top mental health official, Dr. S. Hughes Melton, dead at 52 following car crash | Virginia
Virginia’s top mental health official, Dr. S. Hughes Melton, 52, died Friday following a three-car wreck in Augusta County on Wednesday. Melton’s death was confirmed by Gov. Ralph Northam, who named Melton commissioner of the state Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services last year, “a role he filled ably and with enthusiasm,” Northam said. …
Gov. Northam’s veto of three health insurance bills limits choices and increases costs
(Minerva Studio/iStock) Amir Bajoghli is president of the Medical Society of Northern Virginia. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) vetoed three health insurance bills that would have made it possible for small-business owners and independent contractors to band together and purchase group health insurance plans at competitive rates. These group health insurance plans sponsored by associations, …
