Augusta Health on the brink? Hospital makes plea to save Medicaid
Augusta Health is sounding the alarm on how the trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts in the Big, Ugly Bill that the U.S. Senate just passed will affect its operations.
Augusta Health is sounding the alarm on how the trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts in the Big, Ugly Bill that the U.S. Senate just passed will affect its operations.

What are inalienable rights worth if they can be redefined, delayed, or revoked by executive order?
Six rural Virginia hospitals are now at risk of being closed, but good news for the 1 percent – you’ll be getting your tax breaks.
A proposal to sell 2.2 to 3.3 million acres of public lands in the western U.S. was removed from President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
President Trump’s childish and out-of-touch message following U.S. strikes on Iran is now, properly, a matter of contention.
Jim Ryan explained his decision to step down as the president of UVA, saying he did so because “I cannot make a unilateral decision to fight the federal government in order to save my own job.”
Democrats want you to believe that Donald Trump was acting illegally when he launched military strikes in Iran over the weekend.
Don Beyer is going to run for re-election to the Eighth District congressional seat in the 2026 cycle. Two things at play here: Beyer will be 76 next summer, so, he’s an old; but he’s not necessarily one of the olds who acts and votes like an old.
While the U.S. wages war abroad—bombing Iran, escalating conflict, and staging a spectacle of power for political gain—a different kind of war is being waged here at home.
Members of the House energy coalition joined the SEEC Institute on a climate change tour of Great Smoky Mountains National Park last week.
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