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It’s hard to imagine Virginia Tech without Nikki Giovanni, but the legendary poet has decided that it is time to close the classroom chapter. She is retiring after 35 years as a professor in the Department of English, effective today.
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How can we organize ourselves around the awareness that life matters — all life?
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With every passing day, the United States government borrows yet another leaf from Nazi Germany’s playbook.
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The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the next week.
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Virginia Sen. Mark Warner supports the U.S. Department of Justice in its investigation of former President Donald Trump’s Florida beach resort, Mar-a-Lago.
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We talked this week with a Buchanan County resident who doesn’t qualify for flood insurance because she doesn’t live in a flood zone, and likely won’t be able to get federal assistance to repair damage to her home from a July flood.
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Six weeks have passed since dozens of homes in Buchanan County were damaged or destroyed after a summer storm dumped six inches of rain.
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A Donald Trump ally is hyping a letter that the former president’s inner circle surely thought would throw shade at President Biden for the Aug. 8 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, but instead has opened up yet another can of worms for the legally troubled Republican leader.
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U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger will host a telephone town hall focused on issues facing Virginia’s Seventh District families, seniors and businesses.
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Median household income in Petersburg is $43,209, 56.6 percent of the state average, and the poverty rate there is 22.9 percent, more than double the average statewide.
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