Youngkin rolls out partisan plan to address bipartisan police staffing shortage problem
Some cities in Virginia have a 40 percent vacancy rate in their police departments, almost entirely the result of absurdly low pay.
Some cities in Virginia have a 40 percent vacancy rate in their police departments, almost entirely the result of absurdly low pay.
Politics is sure making for some strange bedfellows in Augusta County, which is blowing up over controversial comments made by the Commonwealth’s attorney at a recent Board of Supervisors meeting.

Just after the November 2020 election– a clear and convincing victory for Joe Biden over Donald Trump— our Sixth District Republican Congressman Ben Cline began enabling lies about massive fraud and illegal voting.
According to the Justice Department, the most common reason for a citizen to come into contact with the police is being a driver in a traffic stop.

The long-running legal and PR battle between the owners of Nexus Services Inc. and Augusta County Sheriff Donald Smith will one day relatively soon have its day in court.
Governor Glenn Youngkin has announced additional appointments to his administration and various boards.
The FBI has a long history of persecuting, prosecuting and generally harassing activists, politicians, and cultural figures.
Former president Donald Trump, his family business and three of his children “grossly inflated” asset values on the Trump Organization’s real estate holdings, according to a civil lawsuit filed on Wednesday by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who accused Trump of “staggering fraud.”

A General District Court judge dismissed a misdemeanor assault and battery charge against Waynesboro Schools Superintendent Jeffrey Cassell on Tuesday.

We’re drowning under the weight of too much debt, too many wars, too much power in the hands of a centralized government, too many militarized police, too many laws, too many lobbyists, and generally too much bad news.
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