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Podcast: VPM Daily Newscast
Episode: 7/16/25 - How do initiatives and recall work in Virginia?
Description: About half of states provide citizens with a path to bypass elected officials to change local laws — or recall the officials themselves.
But is Virginia one of them? Editor Whittney Evans investigates the answers in this week’s Curious Commonwealth with RVA’s Got Issues’ Rich Meagher (Short Summer Break Edition).
Submit your own question at vpm.org/curious. You can listen to RVA's Got Issues on its website or wherever you get your podcasts.
Editor's note: An earlier version of this episode was missing the Curious Commonwealth music. Sorry about that!