senator louise lucas says african american lawmakers are treated differently from their peers. much of that criticism was directed at senate minority leader dick saslaw. lucas says he has failed to resolve the issues that have been brought up to him. saslaw defended himself but did acknowledge that he could communicate better when issues come up. approved a constitutional amendment that could encourage the creation of more charter schools in virginia. the vote was close. 52 to 47. the amendment would give the state board of education the authority to establish charter schools, even if local school boards disagree. delegate rob bell/(r) 58th district albemarle: this is one that will have impacts long after we're gone. you have kids who are in failing school districts. you have kids who are in great school districts. charters can help them all. delegate alfonso lopez/(d) 49th district arlington: the general assembly should be focusing our efforts on giving local school boards the tools, resources and flexibility they need to find creative solutions to help ensure student success.

cannabis oil but there's no way to legally acquire in virginia lobbyists also supported a senator louise lucas to allow cancer patients to use medical marijuana. the city of norfolk has a new or learn to sew some for severe storms in norfolk alerts allows users to customize the content they want to receive you choose how you want your lawrence on public safety such as text message or voicemail. you can also receive targeted messages for specific neighborhoods in norfolk. more information is available on the city of norfolk website was selling porn of brazenly virginia beach road will mean a traffic headache for a lot of drivers we have a look of the projects that will cause some big delays on a busy street in the city and a warm a construction trailer for your drivers could see major delays in virginia beach right now a busy section of manhattan parkway is closed and the closure begins an outright drive in and that dalrymple streets and as liz brown reports this area was open again anytime soon neighbors seem to have a really mixed emotions about this construction. some saying they think it'll

for sixty days weather could have brought a casino to portsmouth has failed again state senator louise lucas and others pushed for a bill to create a state casino gaming commission under to pass a referendum to allow casino in their city but the bill died in the general assembly. lucas and others think a casino could help bring revenue to portsmouth to pay for transportation issues but opponents worry the casino would attract crime. a helping hand for some people who could really use it we're talking about the more than twelve hundred workers who have gotten laid off in newport news shipbuilding since last september. today the food bank of southeastern virginia and the united steel workers local eighty eight eighty eight teamed up with the united way to distribute food to the laid off workers steelworkers president is grateful for all of the generosity and guarded lee optimistic about the future hopefully should be awesome. you can see only on the ride out of the real story may be the end of this year was lulu's a rebound from these people back and the next food distribution will take place

is the zone a bill to bring gambling to portsmouth has died in the senate for years state sen louise lucas has tried to bring casinos to portsmouth her bill would have created a state casino gaming commission under the measure voters would need casino in the city. the bill didn't even make it out of a senate committee high school graduation requirements could drastically change in virginia state sen john miller was to get rid of standard and advanced diplomas and develop a profile of the student who can think critically creatively and work well with others. now he's pushing a bill to make that happen are generally has more redesigning high school in virginia that's what two bills in the general assembly are aiming to do by putting more emphasis on preparing teens for college and jobs and moving away from a testing based culture i definitely think that would be a lot better because there's a lot of students as as me myself i didn't test very well under the bills classes in their first two years of high school than in their junior and senior years they can choose to take courses that prepare