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Michael Martz

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
18
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Sep 23, 2026
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Top 500K sites
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Michael Martz

    Virginia won’t sign agreement on effects of Trump arch on historic sites (opens the original)

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    Virginia won’t sign an agreement with the National Park Service on how a massive “triumphal arch” proposed by President Donald Trump next to Arlington National Cemetery would harm surrounding historic resources and how to minimize the damage. Those resources include a view between the Lincoln Memorial and the former home of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, conceived more than a century ago as a symbol of reconciliation between the North and South after the Civil War. The Virginia Department of Hi

  2. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Michael Martz

    Virginia consumer sentiment plunges as prices erode earnings, survey shows (opens the original)

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    Consumer sentiment, measured by current conditions and future expectations, plunged in the latest survey, which the college conducted in August among 574 Virginians across the state. The consumer sentiment index dropped to 59.6, which is 7.8 points lower than the last survey in February and 4.9 points down from a year earlier. Of those surveyed, 42% say their financial condition is worse than a year ago, and 51% consider it a bad time to buy large, durable goods, such as appliances or furniture.

  3. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Michael Martz

    Virginia likely to lose more than 18,000 jobs this year, UVA forecast predicts (opens the original)

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    The new quarterly forecast shows modest improvement in the outlook for economic productivity, driven by investments in artificial intelligence and the data centers to support it, but it also sees “a substantial contraction in Virginia’s labor force.” The labor force declined by 68,000 jobs from the beginning of last year through June, the report said. In August, the federal government estimated that Virginia lost 48,000 jobs in the 12 months through July. The state’s labor participation rate sit

  4. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Michael Martz

    Diesel tops $6 a gallon in Virginia, as inflation ticks up (opens the original)

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    Diesel prices topped $6 a gallon in Richmond and other parts of Virginia on Friday, while inflation ticked up because of rising costs for energy and housing, setting the stage for a likely increase in interest rates by the Federal Reserve Board. The average price of regular unleaded gasoline exceeded $4.12 a gallon in Richmond and statewide because of higher crude oil prices amid the escalating conflict between the United States and Iran over shipping through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian

  5. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Michael Martz

    25 years later, Sept. 11 victim’s Virginia family seeks justice, not revenge (opens the original)

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    As the world pauses on Sept. 11 to remember the terrorist attacks on the United States 25 years ago, Lil and Kennon Williams will travel with their families to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond to honor their sister, Anna Strudwick Williams Allison, with the pink and white roses she loved at a memorial stone that her mother had erected there in her memory. Then they will take roses to other graves across the fabled cemetery to honor the interconnected Williams, Preston and other families that had p

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