In his first address to the Virginia General Assembly as governor, Glenn
Youngkin on Monday asked lawmakers to put aside division to work on bipartisan
solutions – and repeated many of the red-meat culture themes of his campaign.
Former delegate Winsome Sears, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor
in Virginia, talked with WTOP about her experience, her background and her
goals.
The warnings and watches have been canceled in the D.C. area after after a
Friday of sometimes-heavy rains that led to a raft of warnings and watches.
Saturday could be a different story.
Larry Hogan and Ralph Northam both said on Monday that their states are “ready
and willing” to take in more refugees from Afghanistan as the situation there
continues to deteriorate.
The unexplained deaths of large numbers of birds in the D.C. area and elsewhere
over the past month and a half appear to be on the wane, but scientists are
still urging people to be cautious about safety.
A rehabilitation project is starting this week on the Korean War Veterans
Memorial, and by the time it’s done in more than a year, the monument will
include a Wall of Remembrance similar to the Vietnam memorial.