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Trump tax incentives taking ‘education freedom’ movement nationwide
The Trump administration is moving forward with a program that will put more federal tax dollars into private schools, through a tax credit program buried in the granular detail of the Big Beautiful Bill passed last year.
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Augusta County took its Flock cameras down: What about its Axon ALPRs?
For all the delight in Augusta County over the Sheriff’s Office taking down the two Flock cameras that had been up and active in Fishersville, what about the 58 Axon automatic license plate readers that are currently in use in ACSO vehicles?
Media Beat: Why is a News Leader reporter still picking a dumb fight with us?
Seems we're getting closer to figuring out why a News Leader reporter has been helping lead an effort of disaffected local Dems to try to discredit Augusta Free Press.
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Beth Macy talks smack on Ben Cline for ghosting Oct. 14 debate invite
Beth Macy has seized the upper hand over Ben Cline in the debate over debates, with news that she will be the one sitting with an empty chair at a Community Conversation in Clifton Forge on Oct. 14.
Beth Macy hosting ‘AI and the Workforce’ town hall in Staunton on Oct. 4
The big thing about AI, to me, isn’t so much the supposed 10 percent chance that it will kill us all by the end of the decade, as it is the 90 percent chance that the oligarchs haven’t thought through that it will take all of our jobs.
Virginia
Latest from the Drought Monitoring Task Force: Most of us still in a drought
The Drought Monitoring Task Force says most of Virginia is still in a drought, which is fine, but they’re telling us that we’re in one here in Waynesboro, and we’re just not. Sorry, I’m not trying to tell the scientists how to do their jobs. But, we’re not. And officially, the Task Force did move...
Spanberger releases Energy Plan: Big Energy no longer writing its own rules
After four years of Glenn Youngkin letting Big Energy write its own rules, Abigail Spanberger is taking energy policy back under public control.
Trump's America
Bills in Congress aim to increase resources for campus sexual assault prevention, response
Legislation introduced this week in Congress would require every college and university that receives federal funding to have an independent advocate dedicated to campus sexual assault prevention and response.
Beyer helping lead effort to stop Israeli settlements in West Bank, Gaza
Don Beyer has joined a group of six U.S. House Democrats who are introducing legislation that would impose economic sanctions on individuals and entities building or expanding settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.
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