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Melted-down Lee statue to become public art and more Va. headlines [1]

['Staff Report', 'More From Author', '- October']

Date: 2023-10 

• The Robert E. Lee statue white nationalists once rallied around in Charlottesville was melted down into “a sludge of glowing bronze” over the weekend at a secret location. The metal will be reused in a new piece of public art for the city.—Washington Post

• Virginia FREE, a pro-business nonprofit group, is calling for reforms to the General Assembly that would require legislative committees to more accurately reflect each chamber’s partisan split rather than allowing the party in power to dominate.—Associated Press

• A judge disqualified a Democratic-backed candidate on the ballot for a seat on the Fairfax County School Board over an error in her petition signature paperwork. Voting in the race has been underway for weeks, and the move left Fairfax Democrats scrambling to organize a write-in campaign.—FFXnow

• “Virginians aging out of foster care a most vulnerable group.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch

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