Are local county fairs welcoming to Democrats? Not so much around here
Last week’s controversy with a Confederate flag display at the Augusta County Fair reminded me of my last visit to the Rockingham County Fair back in 2016.
Last week’s controversy with a Confederate flag display at the Augusta County Fair reminded me of my last visit to the Rockingham County Fair back in 2016.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is the Democrat that Republicans fear the most in 2024, but we kind of knew that already, from the half-assed recall effort they threw at him last year.

Jan. 6 wasn’t standalone, but was rather the end piece of years of planning by Donald Trump and his loyalists to stage a coup.

Liberals and progressives are mad as hell, not going to take it anymore, because the Supreme Court has overturned Roe.

Here we are beating ourselves up over trying to find common ground, and today’s headlines tell us a new poll has 76 percent of Republicans saying Joe Biden didn’t legitimately win the 2020 presidential election.

Regardless of how flawed the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA; aka Iran nuclear deal) may be, it was by far better than having no deal.

Waynesboro City Council appears set to move forward next week with changes to the city’s voting map that would by extension preserve the anomaly of having one of the five seats filled at-large.

Waynesboro is set to move forward with updates to its voting map that would preserve the at-large seat on Waynesboro City Council.

Virginia lost two of its finest citizens last week: former United States Senator John Warner who died at age 94 and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates Dick Hobson who died at 89 years old.

Republicans, who spent years using congressional subpoena powers to go on several anti-Democrat witch hunts (“Benghazi!”), are calling foul on this Jan. 6 commission, saying it reeks of politics. Something here reeks, and it ain’t the Jan. 6 commission.
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