Gov. Abigail Spanberger, with an executive order issued on Wednesday terminating existing agreements to work with ICE, is egging on a fight with the Trump regime, but good for her – and good for us – that she’s doing so.
Category Archives: Politics
Nobody asked Chris Runion his thoughts on an Augusta County ICE detention center
Chris Runion represents a House of Delegates district that stretches from the Blue Ridge to the West Virginia state line.
Ben Cline whined to the City Elders about redistricting, because it means his job
Bad news for Ben Cline: per Louise Lucas, the 10-1 congressional map is the only one that the State Senate has the votes to pass.
Earl Zimmerman: February 2026 Climate and Energy News Roundup
Solar can save Virginia farms if state and local government gets out of the way.
Tracy Pyles: A way to make an ICE detention facility work for Augusta County
The townspeople of Craigsville, after initially objecting to the Augusta Correctional Center, embraced for decades the subsequent jail.
Wait, so, Virginia calls Presidents’ Day something else? The history of George Washington Day
I was today years old when I learned that Virginia doesn’t observe a Presidents’ Day, but rather, we call it George Washington Day here.
What is Ben Cline trying to say here about a proposed Augusta County ICE facility?
Our MAGA Sixth District congressman, good ol’ Ben Cline, commented on the proposed Augusta County ICE detention facility at something called a City Elders town hall in Staunton last week.
Augusta County, 73 percent Trump in 2024, on proposed ICE facility: NIMBY
Augusta Countyans likes them some Donald Trump, but when it comes to Trump’s signature initiative, putting brown-skinned people in detention centers, while folks here are all for putting brown-skinned people in detention centers, by gawd, just not here, OK?
Letters: Replace Kristi Noem, ICE detention facility quashed, issue with local car dealer
Letters from Augusta Free Press readers.
‘Ask E. Jean’: The other Trump doc that they’re making sure you don’t get to see
Heard of the film “Ask E. Jean,” a documentary chronicling the woman who stared down Donald Trump in court, and won?