
Notes from a Snow Day: Thoughts on the ever-changing nature of parenthood
I wrote a lot about my son when he was first born, mainly because it’s the only thing I could write about. The decision was beyond my control.

I wrote a lot about my son when he was first born, mainly because it’s the only thing I could write about. The decision was beyond my control.
Will Bettridge, a foreign-affairs major at UVA, and a placekicker on the football team with 20 field goals this season, is this year’s Jim Tatum Award winner, taking the honor given to the ACC’s top student-athlete among the football set.
The West Virginia governor, Patrick Morrisey, and a Mountain State legislator, Chris Rose, think they see an opportunity to mooch off our prosperity.
Senate Republicans took advantage of Dems’ naivete to give members of their MAGA Senate caucus who had their phone records subpoenaed as part of the investigation into the 2020 election a chance to score gobs of free money.
The way Tim Kaine told it to us on Monday, he wasn’t just one of the eight Senate Democrat votes on the tenuous deal with Republicans to end the shutdown, but a driving force.
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.
A federal judge has ordered the government to pay full SNAP benefits to states by Friday, in the latest rebuke to Trump’s administration.
Ben Cline apparently hasn’t thought through what Tuesday’s election results in Virginia mean for his job security.
Fun with numbers: Virginia House Democrats doubled their representation in the western part of the state in the 2025 cycle – from one to two.
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.
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