As mandated by the executive order, the council’s final report will include a review of FEMA’s disaster response in the last four years, comparing FEMA’s response to how local and state agencies responded to the same disasters, what programs were in place before FEMA, and how the agency can be more of a support than the main response to disasters.

Members of a newly re-established cannabis commission in Virginia held an initial meeting on Wednesday, kicking off what’s slated to be months of hearings focused on the future of marijuana in the commonwealth—a process expected to result in a revised proposal to legalize retail sales that lawmakers plan to introduce next session.