News about local and state government from the Henrico Citizen, including coverage of the Henrico County Board of Supervisors, Henrico County School Board, Henrico County Planning Commission and Virginia General Assembly.
After CBS 6 broke the news that Virginia is overdue on nearly every single state hospital inspection, CBS 6 Investigative Reporter Melissa Hipolit has now learned the state may not have been doing these inspections at all. The inspections are mandated under state law Virginia Code 32.1-126(B) and
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In an effort to address speeding and cut-through traffic concerns in neighborhoods throughout the county, Henrico officials use a variety of traffic-calming measures — including the implementation of speed cushions, raised crosswalks, curb extensions, and neighborhood roundabouts — to slow vehicles and create safer streets for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians. Speed cushions
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Henrico’s Board of Supervisors Sept. 9 unanimously voted against a rezoning case that would have brought 49 new single-family homes to the Highland Springs area. The controversial case has seen both support and opposition from Varina residents. Several residents living nearby the proposed site spoke out about how the
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Virginia's Medicaid agency awarded the state's lowest quality nursing homes millions of dollars in bonus cash meant to reward quality. While critics point to that fact as proof the program is doing very little to actually improve quality of care in facilities, the industry maintains the
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At the Henrico General District Courthouse, Judge Nicole Fox overlooks the first defendant on the docket, a man charged with his second DWI offense. In a typical courtroom, the defendant would stand before the judge alone, or maybe alongside their attorney. But Fox allows her defendant to approach the bench
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