NEWS TO KNOWOur daily roundup of headlines from Virginia and elsewhere. • Lt. Gov.-elect Winsome Sears, the first woman of color to win any statewide office in Virginia, toured the Senate chamber over which she will soon preside. “It hit me this morning that a Black lieutenant governor was handing off to another Black lieutenant governor,” she said. “And that has never happened. “We have a ways to go, we have to get the word out.

Source: Washington Post November 10, 2021 13:08 UTC