Afternoon Buzz: ‘So broken down’: Teachers, students and families caught in the middle of Youngkin’s mask order

VMI's first Black superintendent blasts White critics of diversity and equity reform; They were sentenced to life in prison. Who should decide if they get a second chance?; Updates: Snow to increase amid falling temperatures this evening with roads turning slick; Virginia's public colleges and universities can't require coronavirus vaccine, new GOP attorney general finds; Praying and protesting in Washington, they wait for news from Ukraine; Virginia House Republicans try hardball to save Youngkin Cabinet pick; Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich trails challengers in early fundraising ; Swastikas found at Union Station; authorities investigating ; How the Knickerbocker snowstorm became D.C.'s deadliest disaster 100 years ago; Teaching, parenting and grieving: South River coach copes after losing wife to covid at 44; Bas Rouge revels in Old World charm on the Eastern Shore; My son was abused in prison, but proposed Virginia legislation still wouldn't give him a second chance; Daniel Snyder might be about to rename his team, but he still has to acknowledge the harm the old name caused; Maryland's communities of color need a swift end to cannabis criminalization; Virginia's new lost cause; Youngkin's tip line bumble should be a lesson to the new governor ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Sign up for this newsletter Read online Local news you don't want to miss.     Amanda Lambert, a Chesapeake Public Schools teacher who has a disease that makes her at high risk of serious illness from covid-19, has been forced to teach maskless children this week. (Kristen Zeis for The Post) 'So broken down': Teachers, students and families caught in the middle of Youngkin's mask order Gov. Glenn Youngkin's mask-optional order is the subject of two lawsuits, one from parents and one from school boards. By Hannah Natanson ●  Read more »   VMI's first Black superintendent blasts White critics of diversity and equity reform A scathing Facebook post from VMI Superintendent Cedric T. Wins exposed the battle over the future of the nation's oldest state-supported military college. By Ian Shapira ●  Read more »   They were sentenced to life in prison. Who should decide if they get a second chance? The long shadow of "truth in sentencing" politics in Maryland, where the vast majority of lifers are Black. By Rebecca Tan and Ovetta Wiggins ●  Read more »   Updates: Snow to increase amid falling temperatures this evening with roads turning slick Temperatures dip to near freezing areawide by 6 p.m. or so. A few inches of snow are likely to fall into the overnight. By Ian Livingston ●  Read more »   Virginia's public colleges and universities can't require coronavirus vaccine, new GOP attorney general finds Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares issued an opinion that state universities and colleges cannot require the coronavirus vaccine for enrolling or attending in-person classes. By Justin Jouvenal, Lauren Lumpkin and Hannah Natanson ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Praying and protesting in Washington, they wait for news from Ukraine For the past few weeks, Ukrainians and Ukrainian Americans in the Washington region have been glued to the news, anxiously assessing developments in their homeland as an invasion by the approximately 100,000 Russian troops surrounding Ukraine seems possible at any moment. By Joe Heim ●  Read more »   Virginia House Republicans try hardball to save Youngkin Cabinet pick Virginia House Republicans are trying to muscle Andrew Wheeler into governor Glenn Youngkin's Cabinet by holding up the reappointment Angela L. Navarro to the of State Corporation Commission. By Laura Vozzella ●  Read more »   Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich trails challengers in early fundraising "My entirely political life, people have had more cash on hand than I do," Elrich said. "That's never deterred me." By Rebecca Tan ●  Read more »   Swastikas found at Union Station; authorities investigating The symbols appeared the day after International Holocaust Remembrance Day. By Justin Wm. Moyer ●  Read more »   How the Knickerbocker snowstorm became D.C.'s deadliest disaster 100 years ago Nearly 100 people died as the roof on the Knickerbocker Theatre collapsed from a record-setting snowfall of more than two feet. By Kevin Ambrose ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Teaching, parenting and grieving: South River coach copes after losing wife to covid at 44 Mike Zivic — basketball coach, widower, father of two — finds a balance after 2020 tragedy. By Kyle Melnick ●  Read more »   Bas Rouge revels in Old World charm on the Eastern Shore Bas Rouge in Easton, Md., is the crown jewel of energy mogul Paul Prager's properties. Review ●  By Tom Sietsema ●  Read more »     Opinions My son was abused in prison, but proposed Virginia legislation still wouldn't give him a second chance Opinion ●  By Takeisha Brown ●  Read more »   Daniel Snyder might be about to rename his team, but he still has to acknowledge the harm the old name caused Opinion ●  By Ahmar Zaman, Esther Fiore and Carter Comrie ●  Read more »   Maryland's communities of color need a swift end to cannabis criminalization Opinion ●  By Darryl Barnes ●  Read more »   Virginia's new lost cause Opinion ●  By Atif Qarni ●  Read more »   Youngkin's tip line bumble should be a lesson to the new governor Opinion ●  By Norman Leahy ●  Read more »     We think you'll like this newsletter Check out Must Reads for a curated selection of our best journalism in your inbox every Saturday, plus a peek behind the scenes into how one story came together. Sign up »

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