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Labor unions opposing arena plan and more Va. headlines [1]

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

Date: 2024-02

• “A group of labor unions said on Tuesday they oppose a proposal to move the Washington Capitals and Wizards from downtown D.C. to Alexandria, Va., dealing another blow to a plan that is already facing increasingly tall hurdles among legislators in Richmond.”—Washington Post

• Police discovered a loaded gun inside a student’s bag at a Richmond elementary school Tuesday.—WWBT

• “The Labor Department said that Tennessee-based Fayette Janitorial LLC illegally employed 15 children to clean a Perdue Farms poultry plant in Virginia and nine to clean a Seaboard Triumph Foods pork processing plant in Iowa. They cleaned such equipment as head splitters and meat bandsaws.”—NBC News

• A public hearing will determine if ranked choice voting should be used in Arlington’s November election for its county board chairperson.—ARLnow

• Virginia Supportive Housing, which provides permanent residences for people who were homeless, plans to develop an 83-unit low-income apartment building in Richmond’s Northside.—Richmond BizSense

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