Mallory Noe-Payne
Richmond ReporterMallory Noe-Payne is a Radio IQ reporter based in Richmond. She's covered policy and politics from the state capital since 2016. She was a 2020-2021 recipient of the Fulbright Young Journalist Award. She spent a year in Munich, Germany researching memory, justice, and how a society can collectively confront its sins, then creating the acclaimed podcast Memory Wars. Her Virginia-based coverage of home healthcare workers, voting rights, and Richmond’s Slave Trail have all won national news awards. Mallory is a graduate of Virginia Tech with degrees in Journalism and Political Science. You can contact her at noepayne@vt.edu.
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In an excerpt from the podcast Memory Wars, a descendant of Holocaust survivors takes back her heritage by moving to her ancestral homeland in Germany.
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On January 1st Virginia’s minimum wage will move from $11/hr to $12/hr.
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The Virginia Health Care Association recently surveyed Virginia nursing homes and assisted living facilities and found that staffing shortages got worse in 2022 not better. Facility directors say they’re struggling to find nurses and nursing assistants.
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Mayo Island is 15 acres and sits in the middle of the James, in the middle of Richmond. For 300 years it’s been privately owned. Home to sawmills, boat clubs and even for a time a baseball stadium. Today almost half of the island is asphalt, after years of being a trucking depo.
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The first monument to come down was pulled down by protestors. Now it’s displayed as it fell – on its side and splashed with pink paint.
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Richmond’s efforts to commemorate and educate about the city’s role in the domestic slave trade have received a large financial boost, 16 million dollars from the Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project.
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Dual enrollment is a way for those students to get ahead before even starting college. Now lawmakers are considering how to make access more equitable.
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Amidst an ongoing mental health crisis, Virginia’s community services boards often serve as a front-line response. Lawmakers will consider how to update the system this upcoming legislative session.
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The recommendations come from a report released this week by the Virginia Commission to Combat Antisemitism.
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The votes have been counted, final results tallied and now the outcome certified. It’s the final stage in the election process.