Ryan Murphy
Reporter at WHRO-TV (Norfolk, VA)
Reporter with @WHRO, currently covering a little bit of everything. Ex-@VirginianPilot and @Daily_Press. DMs are wide open.
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6 days ago |
whro.org | Ryan Murphy
Norfolk State University broke ground Friday on a new $118 million science building. The four-story, 131,000-square-foot building will include labs and classrooms, plus a planetarium and greenhouse.
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6 days ago |
whro.org | Ryan Murphy
Mitch Landrieu spent eight years as the Mayor of New Orleans, overseeing the city's post-Katrina recovery between 2010 and 2018. He later became President Joe Biden's infrastructure czar. Landrieu was in Newport News this week to address the Hampton Roads Social Justice Conference. WHRO sat down with the former mayor to talk about some of the challenges New Orleans and Hampton Roads have in common. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
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1 week ago |
whro.org | Ryan Murphy
Hampton Roads should expect declines in business investment and consumer spending as the federal government looks to cut workers and implement tariffs, economist Nikki Johnson told the Hampton Roads District Planning Commission Thursday. Hampton Roads is home to 51,000 federal civilian workers. That’s the third- highest concentration in the nation, behind New York City and Washington D.C.Johnson said those jobs pay more than double the average of other civilian jobs.
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1 week ago |
virginiamercury.com | Ryan Murphy
5:17 News Story Health It’s the first psychiatric emergency room on the south side of Hampton Roads, partially funded by a competitive $3.7 million state grant By Ryan Murphy/WHROPatients seeking psychiatric treatment sometimes had to wait days in Chesapeake Regional Medical Center’s emergency room for space at facilities across the state to open up, the hospital told the state in 2022. Now those patients will have their own space on-site dedicated to treating them quickly.
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1 week ago |
whro.org | Ryan Murphy
Building more housing isn’t enough to tackle the affordability crisis for those with lower incomes. That’s one of the messages from a wide-ranging discussion on the state of Virginia’s housing from the Hampton Roads Social Justice Conference at Christopher Newport University, which began Tuesday and runs through Wednesday. A push to loosen zoning laws and allow the construction of more units per lot is one of the most visible current housing reform efforts.
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