
Let’s all pretend there already is a wall
Congress isn’t going to give in to President Trump on his ransom demand for $5 billion for a border wall that the rest of us know will never actually be built.

Congress isn’t going to give in to President Trump on his ransom demand for $5 billion for a border wall that the rest of us know will never actually be built.

Here in Charlottesville, as in most places, we like our stories simple. Most books by local author John Grisham have good guys and bad guys. When a UVa sports team wins, everybody says “Yay, we won!” When it loses, three-quarters of the people say “Boo, we lost!”

Liberty has a new football coach: Hugh Freeze, and this is either, a) huge news, because Freeze is a former SEC head coach, or b) are you serious, this is the guy who was run out of town because of a scandal involving phone calls to escort services?

Rep. Don Beyer issued the following statement today on the National Climate Assessment, after the Trump Administration’s release of that document over a holiday weekend.

Virginia Tech can add another feather to its cap: It will once again be home to the National Thanksgiving Turkey and its alternate “wingman.”

Barack Obama received 3,840 votes in Waynesboro in his 2012 presidential re-election run. Jennifer Lewis, political neophyte, received, wait for it, 3,840 votes in Waynesboro in her 2018 bid for the Sixth District congressional seat.

This past Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., I watched the premier of the film Charlottesville, produced by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.

The blood of Jamal Khashoggi is on your hands, America. OK, sure, also the Saudi leadership’s hands, in their case, literally. You let them get away with it.

Just short of 2,000 voters participated in the May city elections in Waynesboro. There are more than 13,000 people registered to vote in the city.

Jennifer Wexton’s congressional campaign will report having raised over $2.6 million in the third quarter of 2018. The figure doubles the largest previous quarterly fundraising amount for a congressional race in Virginia’s 10th District, set by incumbent Barbara Comstock.
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