We are a nation of laws: Even the Augusta County sheriff has to follow them
New gun laws that went into effect July 1 are still in effect in 126 of the state’s 132 localities – including Augusta County.
New gun laws that went into effect July 1 are still in effect in 126 of the state’s 132 localities – including Augusta County.
Virginia is back as a member of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, following a lengthy legal battle initiated by former Gov. Glenn Youngkin playing politics with the environment, as MAGAs are wont to do.
When people picture a serious car crash, they imagine a drunk driver weaving across the center line or someone blowing a red light at full speed.
When people picture a bad wreck on Interstate 81, they imagine the dramatic stuff: the closed lanes, the helicopter, the line of brake lights stretching back miles.
It’s pretty obvious, and has been for a while, that Augusta County Commonwealth’s Attorney Tim Martin needs to recuse himself in the matter of the Dec. 17, 2025, officer-involved shooting of Dustin Griffin.
Former Waynesboro vice mayor Jim Wood, mute and politically irrelevant since the Buttplug-gate scandal that emerged weeks into his term on Waynesboro City Council, is actually running for re-election.
The Trump regime has launched an open-ended investigation into California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebell Newsom, with the news of this coming from, Gavin Newsom himself.
The office of Gov. Abigail Spanberger is pushing back at the attempt of Trump henchman Todd Blanche to block new state laws set to go into effect on July 1 that will prohibit ICE, Border Patrol and FBI agents from wearing masks while on duty in Virginia.
A coalition of state AGs that includes Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones has won a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump regime’s attempt to block states from getting USDA grants for their SNAP and WIC programs over MAGA politics.
I’m trying to figure out what is going on with the list of appointments to various college and university Boards of Visitors that we got from the office of Gov. Abigail Spanberger at the end of the business day on Friday.
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