Josh Stein: “The grants will help expand economic opportunity and support long-term recovery across the region.”

The General Assembly has not raised the minimum wage in 17 years.

Strengthen public education. Invest in workforce development, including apprentices. Lower the cost of living. And make sure that you all have a seat at the table.

Our state governor has been coming in very quietly. He just comes in with his wife and checks on downtown.

It’s the best way to ensure that you really get locally driven solutions to problems, which creates a laboratory of democracy, laboratory of ideas, of innovation.