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State
Decertified doctors work for Virginia corrections department, treat inmates
In the paperwork, she’s known as “Patient B.” On a Wednesday in 2011, Patient B came into the operating room of Dr. Michael D. Brooks for a non-emergency surgery. On Friday, Patient B died. Today, the one-time gynecologist is in charge of the health of more than 2,000 men at a prison complex in Sussex. According to records from the Virginia Board of Medicine, he’s one of three physicians employed by the Virginia Department of Corrections time whose medical licenses have either been revoked or suspended for past misconduct. The physicians’ records and how they came to work for the prison system comes to light as VADOC weathers criticism from reform advocates, federal agencies, Republicans and Democrats concerning how it cares for inmates.
richmond.com
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Local
Prince William data center opponents hope to kill plan by delaying vote
Prince William County’s supervisors are scheduled to vote Tuesday on a measure to temporarily defer some land-use decisions until a new board is in place, an effort to effectively kill a controversial data center project in the Gainesville area by taking advantage of board chair Ann Wheeler’s primary election defeat. The measure by Supervisor Jeanine Lawson (R-Brentsville), who won her party’s nomination for board chair last month, would place a moratorium on land-use decisions that face community opposition and aren’t included on an expedited agenda. Echoing other “lame duck session” moratoriums in effect in nearby Fairfax and Stafford counties, it would start when the Nov. 7 election is held and last until January, when a new board will be installed.
washingtonpost.com
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Federal
US military records reveal instructional materials on White privilege, CRT, BLM
Military records obtained by a conservative watchdog show U.S. Air Force Academy instructional materials that include presentations addressing Critical Race Theory (CRT), White privilege and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. The group, Judicial Watch, announced Friday it had obtained 478 pages of records through a November 2022 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuitit filed after the Department of Defense (DOD) didn’t respond to its request for Air Force Academy training materials pertaining to CRT.
foxnews.com
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In other states
Bob Huggins says he never resigned as West Virginia’s coach and wants his job back
Bob Huggins says he never resigned as West Virginia’s basketball coach following a drunken-driving arrest and wants his job back, according to a letter from his attorney to the university. Huggins’ Cleveland-based attorney, David A. Campbell, wrote to the university Friday that Huggins “never signed a resignation letter and never communicated a resignation to anyone at WVU,” according to the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press on Saturday. The letter threatens a lawsuit if Huggins isn’t reinstated. Huggins’ demands were first reported by West Virginia network MetroNews.
wric.com
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Editorial
Some in Lynchburg want to recall a city council member. Here’s why that’s so hard.
In Lynchburg, a petition is circulating to initiate a recall of city council member Marty Misjuns. This, though, isn’t a column about Misjuns — it’s about why the Misjuns recall attempt is potentially unusual, and, more broadly, about recall laws in general. In Virginia, recall petitions — if they meet the threshold for the number of signatures — usually don’t trigger an election, they trigger a court hearing. “State law doesn’t let Virginians directly initiate a recall election unless their local government has its own recall mechanism,” the Virginia Mercury wrote last year. A search of the Code of Virginia turns up just four localities that have recall provisions: Hampton, Norfolk, Portsmouth … and Lynchburg….Now, all this history is quite fine — and perhaps even fun for political junkies — but it dances around the big questions: Should we make recall elections easier? Or should we even allow recall efforts at all?
cardinalnews.org
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