Once every decade, government officials across the country take on the monumental task of counting every person living in the United States. The job is critically important — for one, population totals determine how much federal money is spent for each community’s roads, schools, housing and social programs.

In Hampton Roads, officials who oversee some of the region’s poorest places worry many people there have been left out of this year’s count. Along with complications from the COVID-19 pandemic, they blame a breakdown at the U.S. Census Bureau, which leads count efforts, in part, by hiring enumerators — temporary workers paid to knock on doors and make sure no one is missed.

 Read more in this Sunday's Main News section.

  "Meet the Tastemakers" is an occasional Q and A with the people who labor behind-the-scenes to bring the arts and food to Hampton Roads. This is Alison Byrne, deputy director, exhibitions and education at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach. She was recently named Museum Art Educator of the Year by the Virginia Art Education Association.

Read more in The Sunday Break section.

• Richmond’s Adarra, named among the best new restaurants in America, can briefly make you forget the pandemic. Read more in The Sunday Break section.

• Jeff Johnson was an All-Tidewater guard out of Maury High who dazzled fans with his amazing dribbling skills. But poor grades kept him from going Division I. Now that basketball is over, Johnson is now focused on a career in film production in New York City. Read more in the Sunday Sports section.