Podcasts about Virginia, United States

In The Energy Surge: Preparing Virginia Businesses for What's Next with John Hewa, Susan Spears of the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce reads out the grid operator PJM's warning of possible power shortages. Her guest, the president and CEO of Rappahannock Electric Cooperative, answers in practical terms. Data-center loads are served separately, battery storage can shift power to peak hours, and businesses should plan for rising energy prices as an operating cost. That We Are Business episode dates from January 2026, and the statewide argument has kept moving since. In September 2026, Virginia Mercury reported that Governor Abigail Spanberger had announced a data-center accountability framework of proposed changes. That same month, Dominion and NextEra proposed a merger with 600 additional jobs, and critics argued the combined company could wield excessive influence over the legislature.

That pairing of a measured insider and a contested public question runs through Virginia's podcasts. Much of what the state sounds like is institutions talking to their members. The sharper disagreements come from a lunchtime live show in Charlottesville, from sports hosts, and from a Richmond community-radio archive.

What Virginia is

Virginia is a U.S. state in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, with approximately 8.88 million residents by a July 1, 2025 estimate and 39,482 square miles of land. Its economy varies by region, and technology companies and federal agencies are important drivers in Northern Virginia. Presidential heritage is part of its public identity and its tourism promotion. For the wider national picture, see the United States page.

Business talk, from the inside

We Are Business makes no pretence of distance from the chamber that produces it, but its interviews with officials carry specifics. In The Power of Public Service: A Conversation with Jeff Small: L2L, Fredericksburg's clerk of the circuit court explains that sitting beside the judge is only about half the job. He describes his aim of showing that a government office isn't like getting a root canal. In Serving the Commonwealth with Christopher Lindsay: L2L, the Virginia Department of Health's chief operating officer says the office overseeing nursing homes had over a 40% vacancy rate. These are officials' own accounts.

Talk Local To Me, from the Central Virginia Business Coalition, is looser. In Tea Time: Chapel Creek Farms, a Bedford County grass-fed beef operation describes over a thousand cows on more than 2,000 acres. In Craftsman Custom Homebuilders and Blue Ridge Town & Country LLC, a strange noise outside halts the conversation until someone decides they must be filming a Tom Cruise movie. The informality is the appeal, and the limit is that guests are describing their own services. The DMV (Washington, DC | Maryland | Virginia) Business Show offers a candid moment in 208 - Finding Healing And Hope with Christie Dondero Bettwy of Rock Recovery. There, the head of an Arlington-based eating disorder nonprofit admits she sometimes chickens out of asking donors for money.

Charlottesville at full volume

The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! is where the register rises. In I Love CVille Will Publish Real Estate Sales Data; Why Spanberger's Approval Rating Floundering?, Miller rebuts a Facebook post by former mayor Nakia Walker that he calls a conspiracy theory about school resource officers. He argues that the police training at Charlottesville High School took place during spring break. Trump's Iran War Is Fracturing Republican Party; Redistricting/Gerrymandering Vote Is 8 Days Away is better because someone pushes back. Miller argues younger conservatives "vote pocketbook first," while his studio partner Judah says he is "a little bit on the fence about this."

Recent titles follow Albemarle County schools, including AlbCo Supe Duncan Wants Schools Investigated; Claims Toxic Culture, Racism & Sexual Harrassment from September 28, 2026. On The Schilling Show, Rob Schilling questions the term "food insecurity" in The Schilling Show: Jason Perry, Brian Morgenstern, Captain Darrell Byers.

Richmond's harder questions

Race Capitol is activist radio on WRIR Richmond Independent Radio. Its latest episode dates from February 2022, and the arguments in its archive remain open. No Cops. No Colonies. No Casinos. takes apart the 2021 casino referendum. Its hosts and guests ask what "Black owned" means in the proposal and note that the revenue language guarantees money for public safety but says only that schools "can" receive it. Near the end, a speaker sums up the episode's view: "The house always wins." WE KEEP US SAFE PT. 2 (Feat. Yaya Ogaldez & Sarandon Elliot) covers the Marcus Alert law taking effect on December 1, 2021, including Princess Blanding's criticism of it as watered down. The episode then turns to Richmond's mutual aid groups.

Abstract, from Virginia Commonwealth University's Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium, approaches unequal access through research with area school divisions. In How do enrollment practices promote access to advanced coursework?, a host reads focus-group quotes from high school students about getting onto the advanced track. One student says "honestly for me it started in elementary school." Virginia Literacy Act Expansion: Implications for Middle Schools walks through what follows when a student misses a reading benchmark. In some divisions, that can mean an intervention class in place of an elective.

The teams

Two Deep | The Longest-Running Hokies Podcast is the most companionable of the Virginia Tech shows. In Matt Moore Talks OL Depth - Spring Game Roster Draft, Pete and Sam compare rival rosters for an imagined spring game, then argue over whose secondary is better. Its October 2026 titles follow a season souring, through Virginia Tech Takes UGLY Loss at Cal - Penalty & Secondary Concerns Persist | VT Corner. For UVA, The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! offers Jerry Ratcliffe's Sources Say Sam Lewis Will Return; Crystal Ball: 4-Star Sharpshooter Headed To UVA, where a speaker stresses that nothing about Lewis is official.

The Fast Lane with Ed Lane reaches beyond college football. In Covering the Commonwealth ft. Howlers, NASCAR, VT Hokies, a guest recalls asking Ty Gibbs how to race Bristol and hearing "hammer the hell out of it." Kyle Alexander, Fellowship of Christian Athletes Lynchburg VA turns toward faith, as Alexander describes his high school coaches as his mentors.

History, crime and fiction

Vile Virginia: A True Crime Podcast, hosted by Jenny, last published in September 2022. Episode 72 - The Story of the Carroll County Courthouse Massacre reconstructs a courtroom where members of the Allen family stood with "pockets full of guns." The Haysom series argues through DNA and forensic testing that the case against the man sentenced in 1990 to two consecutive life terms has serious gaps. That is Jenny's argument to make, and the series should be heard from Part 1. Expect heavy ad breaks.

Tidewater Talk, a Virginia Beach show on Hampton Roads news and weather, tells local history more gently. In Ocean View Memories and a Cold Week in Virginia Beach, it explains that Norfolk's Ocean View Park opened in 1896 as a trolley company's way to fill the end of its line. Hometown Stories Episode 78 - Fries: The Town Frozen in Time, from Hometown Stories, features a speaker arguing that a mill town deserves more credit in country music's origin story.

The Love Talker is folk horror set in a remote Appalachian community near the Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee borders, where women go missing. Episode 7 - Tyler builds from a first-grade memory in Saltville. Its content warnings cover domestic abuse and sexual assault, and they are not formalities.

Where to start

• For the civic-minded newcomer: We Are Business, The Power of Public Service: A Conversation with Jeff Small: L2L.
• If you want an argument: The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller!, Trump's Iran War Is Fracturing Republican Party; Redistricting/Gerrymandering Vote Is 8 Days Away, for the moments when Judah disagrees.
• For a Saturday-in-Blacksburg mood: Two Deep | The Longest-Running Hokies Podcast, Matt Moore Talks OL Depth - Spring Game Roster Draft.
• For local lore: Tidewater Talk, Ocean View Memories and a Cold Week in Virginia Beach.
• For listeners ready for darker history: Vile Virginia: A True Crime Podcast, Episode 72 - The Story of the Carroll County Courthouse Massacre.

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