WHRV's Morning Edition
with your local host Sondra Woodward
For information on swine flu, please visit the Virginia Department of Health.
Today is July 1, 2009
Forecast: sunny, high 90 (more weather)
For Election Results:
Virginia Board of Elections
North Carolina Board of Elections
ACLU hotline: 804-644-8080
NAACP hotline: 804-321-5678
To view projects funded in the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009, click HERE.
- For information on the Attorney General's Vicitm Assistance Program, call 1-800-370-0459 or click HERE.
- Find out where campaign funds come from. Visit the Virginia Public Access Project HERE.
- Read the Virginia Tech Review Panel's report HERE.
- For details on Virginia's College Transfer Grant Program, click HERE.
- The Virginia College Savings Plan has set up a Web site that can help families learn how to save for college. Click HERE.
- Virginia joins the Climate Registry, a state-sponsored initiative to collect and report greenhouse gas emissions. More details HERE.
- The Government and Regulatory Reform Task Force seeks public comment on regulations deemed to be excessive, burdensome, or unnecessary. Send your input to regreform@oag.state.va.us.
News headlines from:
Of civic interest:
- The Governor's Commission on Immigration is taking public comment on immigration in Hampton Roads. Send to immigration.commission@governor.virginia.gov or to Governor's Commission on Immigration, c/o Matt Gross, 7 North 8th Street, 6th Floor, Richmond, VA 23219.
- Public comment on the Forest Service's plans for the George Washington National Forest can be made here.
- Public comment on the future of the Blue Ridge Parkway should be sent to: Park Superintendent, 199 Hemphill Knob Road, Asheville, NC 28803.
- Help local schools teachers with their classroom projects. Visit DonorsChoose.org.
- Safe Schools Information Resource provides public access to school discipline and other safety data.
- State Board of Education wants to hear from Virginians about the Standards of Quality for public schools. For a list of public hearing times, locations and the current Standards of Quality, click HERE.
- The Victim Information and Notification Everyday (VINE) program is now active. More information HERE.
- Governor Kaine urges Virginians to sign up for Wireless Amber Alerts at www.wirelessAmberAlerts.com.
- Jeffrey Kirwan is reviewing 300 nominations for Virginia's most interesting trees. Read about the project HERE.
Your Morning Edition Local Correspondents
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Listen to Sondra's visit to a Gaelic language retreat in Mechanicsville HERE.
Hear from the authors of a book about Virginia's African American history HERE.
Meet the state poet laureate HERE.
Visit the Anderson Blacksmith Shop in Colonial Williamsburg HERE.
Listen as Colonial Williamsburg tradesmen, VMI cadets and regular folks in the crowd lift a wall that will front a reconstructed 18th c coffeehouse. Click HERE.
For details on the B-17 Liberty Belle, and her visit to Hampton Roads, click HERE.
Click HERE to stream Sondra's interview with Dan Roberts.
Links you should add to your Favorites:
Spaceweather.com
Dead or Alive
Bunny Shorts
Snopes.com
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