Waynesboro: Looking to 2025 numbers for guidance on 2026 city elections
The seats representing Ward C and Ward D on Waynesboro City Council are up in the 2026 cycle. Based on what we just saw at the polls, things aren’t looking so good for Jim Wood.
The seats representing Ward C and Ward D on Waynesboro City Council are up in the 2026 cycle. Based on what we just saw at the polls, things aren’t looking so good for Jim Wood.
Oak Hill, the 1,240-acre historic estate of former President James Monroe, is now in the hands of The Conservation Fund, which is laying the groundwork for the property to become a Virginia state park.
Eight Senate Democrats are caving on the 40-day effort to try to protect Affordable Care Act subsidies. One of them is one of ours, Tim Kaine, who just got re-elected last year, so, doesn’t have to worry about facing the voters again until 2030.
Virginia’s six-member Democratic U.S. House delegation is collectively urging the director of the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange to extend the Open Enrollment period through May 1, 2026.
Lame-duck MAGA Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order on Tuesday to reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test in the Commonwealth’s public school divisions.
I just read what may be the single dumbest politics column ever written, an effort by Cardinal News editor Dwayne Yancey to minimize the blue wave in Tuesday’s elections.
Ben Cline apparently hasn’t thought through what Tuesday’s election results in Virginia mean for his job security.
Waynesboro went blue in Tuesday’s elections, and for context on that, last time we saw the city vote for the Democratic Party nominee in a gubernatorial election was way back in 1985.
Virginia replaced its Republican state ticket with a new Democratic governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, and flipped 14 Republican House seats to the Democrats’ side.

The two sides in the 2025 Virginia elections made their closing arguments at dueling rallies on Saturday, the MAGA Republicans in the far reaches of the Northern Virginia exurbs, the Democrats in the heart of Hampton Roads.
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