
‘Business as usual’: Waynesboro, Staunton weigh in on ‘uncertainty’ of federal funding
The cities of Staunton and Waynesboro are waiting to learn more about how a federal funding freeze might impact operations.

The cities of Staunton and Waynesboro are waiting to learn more about how a federal funding freeze might impact operations.
Thirty three projects in Virginia will receive a share of $23.6 million in funding to rehabilitate housing and revitalize downtown districts.
There is a lot of uncertainty regarding the freeze on federal funding and the potential impact it may have on local nonprofit organizations.
According to law professor Amanda Frost, “a constitutional crisis occurs when one branch of government, usually the executive, ‘blatantly, flagrantly and regularly exceeds its constitutional authority.”
The new guy heading up the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is an avowed anti-vaxxer with a spray tan who, among other things, doesn’t know the basics of how Medicare and Medicaid work.

A coalition of 14 state AGs, not including Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, has filed suit in federal court challenging the exercise of power by the unelected paper billionaire Elon Musk.
A budget reconciliation bill has been introduced in the U.S. House by Republicans seeking to find $2 trillion in cuts over the next 10 years.
Locals looking for a convenient way to tell Elon Musk to go f–k himself will, apparently soon, have a Tesla location in Charlottesville for that.
Farmers aren’t so sure that higher egg prices are because of avian flu pointing to corporate greed for the skyrocketing costs.
DOGE has struck again with the announcement yesterday that the U.S. DOE has terminated nearly $1 billion in research contracts.