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Federal Court Strikes Down Racial Balancing Policy Resulting in Discrimination Against Asian Applicants at Prominent Virginia Public School

The new admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology did not explicitly discriminate based on race. But the court found it was intended to reduce the number of Asian students admitted, in order to increase the percentage of students from other groups.

Reason

Judge: New admissions policies at elite school discriminate

A federal judge has ruled that a Virginia school system illegally discriminated against Asian Americans when it overhauled the admissions policies at an elite public school

The Independent UK

With big tax incentives, Virginia aims to lure Commanders

Virginia lawmakers are advancing a measure intended to lure the Washington Commanders to the state by allowing the NFL team to forgo what could be $1 billion or more in future tax payments to help finance a potential new football stadium

The Independent UK

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Museum begins honoring Black coachmen from the Jim Crow era

The Black men who drove horse-drawn carriages through the streets of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia were both everywhere and invisible during the Jim Crow era

The Independent UK

Commentary: The price of censorship

Education has always been a battleground in the culture war, but the fight over what can or should be taught in schools has escalated to the point where, as in Virginia, it can determine who is elected to high public office.

Tribune News Service

Jeremy Roach scores season-high 15 as Duke basketball beats Virginia to split series

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Duke teammates who won a Virginia high school state championship together two years ago, Jeremy Roach and Trevor Keels put the Blue Devils in position to win at John Paul Jones Arena Wednesday night.

Tribune News Service

Virginia’s Tony Bennett honors Mike Krzyzewski in classy pregame moment

What a heartwarming moment.

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More than 1,000 Hershey’s workers vote on plan to unionize Virginia plant

The Pennsylvania-based candy brand has hired union-busting consultants as workers fight for better pay and conditions

The Guardian - US

Pelosi ‘monitoring’ possible trucker convoy protest headed for Washington DC

Law enforcement agencies in DC, Maryland, Virginia, and at the US Capitol have ramped up security

The Independent UK

Duke vs Virginia Prediction, College Basketball Game Preview

Duke vs Virginia prediction, college basketball game preview, how to watch, lines, and why each team might - or might not - win on Wednesday.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Just what is a 'divisive concept'? Without real answers, educators are concerned about their implications on public education

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — When Conor Collins teaches his Advanced Placement U.S. History class, he asks students to think about some of the challenges Black people could have faced during Reconstruction after American enslavement was abolished.

Tribune News Service

Churchill Downs Agrees To Acquire Peninsula Pacific Entertainment Assets For ~$2.5B

Churchill Downs Inc (NASDAQ:CHDN) has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Peninsula Pacific Entertainment LLC (P2E) for $2.485 billion. The acquisition will include all of P2E's assets in Virginia and New York and the operations of its Sioux City casino property. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2022. "This…

Benzinga

Jushi To Launch Various Cannabis Brands And Products In Massachusetts

Jushi Holdings Inc. (CSE:JUSH) (OTCQX: JUSHF) is launching a series of branded cannabis products in Massachusetts, beginning with the debut of its flower brands, The Bank and Sèchè.

Benzinga

Editorial: The ERA, hotly controversial in the 1970s, should be an easy lift today

After all the epic upheaval in the 1970s over the Equal Rights Amendment, some are arguing that the constitutional amendment declaring, simply, that women must be afforded the same rights as men officially became law last month — two years after Virginia ratified it and put it over the 38-state…

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Born without legs, Virginia HS wrestler Adonis Lattimore wins championship

Adonis Lattimore has no right leg and only a partial left leg, but the Virginia high school wrestler capped his season with a championship.

Tribune News Service

Tyler Cowen: Wokeism has peaked

I’m calling it: Wokeism has peaked. Yes, it will remain a highly influential movement, and it will probably continue to spread globally. But in the U.S. at least, wokeism and the woke will ebb.

The Independent UK

Virginia attorney general moves to withdraw from ERA lawsuit

Republican Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares wants the state to withdraw from a lawsuit that seeks to force the federal government to recognize Virginia’s 2020 vote to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment

Ballotpedia

Virginia House passes five public-sector union bills

On Feb. 15, the Virginia House of Delegates passed five Republican-sponsored bills dealing with public-sector union policy. The bills are now in committee in the Senate, where Democrats hold a majority.

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Benzinga

AdvanSix Stock Slides After Mixed Q4 Results; Agrees To Acquire U.S. Amines For $100M

AdvanSix Inc (NYSE:ASIX) reported fourth-quarter FY21 sales growth of 24.6% year-over-year to $424.06 million, beating the consensus of $408.30 million. The sales increase was driven by a 25% favorable impact of market-based pricing and 12% higher raw material pass-through pricing, partially offset by lower volume. Sales volume in the quarter decreased ~12% driven…

The Guardian - US

His journalist daughter was killed. Now he wants to ‘fix’ big tech in Congress

Andy Parker says he is ‘honoring’ his daughter Alison Parker’s death by fighting for a congressional seat to regulate big tech

Roll Call

At the Races: Cracking the midterms - Roll Call

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

The Independent UK

Sanity evaluation ordered for college shooting suspect

A Virginia judge has ordered a mental health evaluation for the man charged in the fatal shooting of two campus officers

The Independent UK

School apologises for ‘poor judgement’ in book cancelling culture war

Principal of Virginia high school taking ‘appropriate action’ after being accused of ‘doubling down on big FU to parents’

The Independent UK

Virginia adopts plan to end school mask mandates March 1

Virginia’s General Assembly moved swiftly to put the final legislative touches on a bill that bans local school systems from imposing mask mandates on students

Tribune News Service

Masking battles show how issue that buoyed Biden in 2020 won’t help party in midterms

WASHINGTON — The official transcript of President Joe Biden’s 20-minute speech about lowering the cost of health care last week in Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger’s district was more than 3,300 words. “Masks” was not one of them, even though the administration decided just weeks earlier to make high-quality masks available…

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