Spanberger in town to break ground on Interstate 81 improvements
Six miles of a third lane, nine bridges – $219 million. Ben Cline is still bragging about securing $17 million for Interstate 81 improvements like he did something.
Six miles of a third lane, nine bridges – $219 million. Ben Cline is still bragging about securing $17 million for Interstate 81 improvements like he did something.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger is trolling her predecessor, Glenn Youngkin, with two appointments to the Virginia Commission on Higher Education announced on Tuesday.

The Scott Beardsley appointment was the first realpolitik political test for Abigail Spanberger. The paper she turned in is coming back to her with red ink all over it, and a big fat F at the top.
The newly appointed UVA Board of Visitors voted on Thursday to affirm the selection of the dramatically unqualified Scott Beardsley to be the 10th president of the University of Virginia, in the interest of not rocking the boat.
Ben Cline issued a statement on the State of the Union, and the response from Abigail Spanberger, quick enough after both that you have to assume the statement was pre-written.
We now know that the minimum wage in Virginia will increase to $15 per hour on Jan. 1, 2028, with Gov. Abigail Spanberger signaling on Monday that she will sign legislation that has passed both houses of the General Assembly.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger has approved a $250,000 grant that will help get an affordable-housing project in Waynesboro moving forward.
Today’s politics deep dive is about how I’d been having trouble getting anybody from the Spanberger administration to get back to me, which, given what I was asking about, felt kinda funky to me.
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.
The president of a police union issued a statement on Monday blasting an op-ed published on a MAGA law-enforcement blog that painted a partisan picture of its endorsement of Abigail Spanberger in the 2025 gubernatorial race.
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