Youngkin says he’ll consider special session for budget and more Va. headlines

The State Capitol. (Ned Oliver/ Virginia Mercury)

• Gov. Glenn Youngkin said he’d consider calling a special session for the General Assembly to work out a budget. “I’m in no hurry; I’m here all summer.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• An amendment to the Republican House’s budget proposal would defund the state agency created to oversee marijuana legalization in Virginia. “Not sure who put it in. Don’t need the money if we are not expanding this issue,” said the chair of the House Appropriations Committee.—WRIC

• A spokesman for Loudoun County Public Schools is asking that his trial on felony perjury charges related to the system’s handling of two sexual assault cases be transferred to a different venue, saying Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares have biased the entire jury pool.—Inside NoVa

• “Alexandria city officials canceled plans to launch a new grant program for minority-owned businesses this week, after facing blowback from conservatives and allegations in a federal lawsuit that the grant criteria discriminated against White people.”—Washington Post

• The Arlington NAACP is asking for an explanation of what Arlington Public Schools is doing in response to a teacher making a Black student pick up cotton with his face as part of a team-building activity called “nose dive.”—WSET

by Staff Report, Virginia Mercury

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