Leah Small
Freelance Journalist and Writer at Freelance
Freelance journalist & writer. Avid chronicler of happenings. @guardian @Styleweekly @Richmondmag @progressindex @physorg_com @medical_xpress @cvilletomorrow
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4 weeks ago |
dailypress.com | Leah Small
The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Cardinal News, which first published the following story, has embarked on a three-year project to tell the little-known stories of Virginia’s role in the march to independence. This project is supported in part by a grant from the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission. Find all the stories on the Cardinal 250 page, cardinalnews.org/cardinal-news-250-2.
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1 month ago |
scientificamerican.com | Leah Small
Black women in the U.S. are close to 40 percent more likely to die of breast cancer than white women and twice as likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer. The disparity adds to an alarming trend of women increasingly being diagnosed with breast cancer in early adulthood and middle age overall, the 2025 American Cancer Society’s annual cancer report shows. Health and income inequalities factor into why Black women die from breast cancer at disproportionate rates.
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2 months ago |
fauquier.com | Leah Small
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2 months ago |
cardinalnews.org | Leah Small
The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Cardinal News has embarked on a three-year project to tell the little-known stories of Virginia’s role in the march to independence. This project is supported, in part, by a grant from the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission. Find all our stories from this project on the Cardinal 250 page.
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2 months ago |
virginiamercury.com | Leah Small
Virginia lawmakers want to more than triple the amount of energy storage capacity Virginia’s two public utility companies — Dominion and Appalachian Power (ApCo) — must procure under the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA). Passed in 2020, the VCEA required Dominion to supply electricity from only carbon-neutral sources by 2045. It gave ApCo until 2050 to meet the same standard.
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