UVA Football alum Derek Dooley loses in Georgia Senate Republican primary
Former UVA Football walk-on Derek Dooley was defeated, soundly, in his bid for the Republican nomination to run for the U.S. Senate in Georgia.
Former UVA Football walk-on Derek Dooley was defeated, soundly, in his bid for the Republican nomination to run for the U.S. Senate in Georgia.
The Republican side in the Fifth District has been just plain odd for several years now, so, it should be no surprise that there’s another intraparty contest for the congressional nomination this year.

The 2025 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released last week tells us that 745,652 people were homeless on the night of the Point-In-Time Count in the final week of January 2025.
The FOIA office at the University of Virginia still does not have a fresh employment contract or reappointment letter on file for Gary Taylor, who is listed on the athletics department website as the associate head coach for UVA Swimming.
Donald Trump is trying to install one of his henchmen as the acting director of national intelligence.
It’s already the settled law of the land, marriage equality, but Virginia still has embedded in its state constitution, thanks to the politics of 2006, a provision narrowly defining marriage as being between one man and one woman.
As America’s war with Iran lurches from escalation to ceasefire to renewed threats of military force, Americans are being asked to trust that someone, somewhere, knows what they are doing.
A huge bipartisan majority in the U.S. House voted on Wednesday to pass legislation styled the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act.
Ben Cline, back in 2023, was against settlement slush funds, to the point that he was an out-of-the-box co-sponsor of a bill called the Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act.
The worst-kept secret in Virginia politics, if it was a secret at all, is out of the bag now – Ben Cline, on Monday, announced his campaign for re-election to Congress.
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