Blockages in Virginia’s teacher pipeline discourage pursuit of profession
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At the start of this school, 4.8 percent of teacher positions remained vacant in Virginia schools. A year ago, only 3.9 percent were vacant.
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Team USA drops the ball: How America embarrassed itself at the FIBA World Cup
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It’s been three days since Team USA lost 127-118 in overtime to Canada in the third-place game at the FIBA World Cup, and it all still feels like a bad dream.
The American Dream: West End restaurant remains open during court facility construction
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Staunton’s new Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court facility will be built in the former Chestnut Hills Shopping Center.
Region’s suicide rates almost double state, national average; treatment options in the works
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Staunton, Waynesboro and Augusta County are facing a major mental health crisis – with more than 60 temporary detention orders issued per month.
The security dilemma in the nuclear age: Is it possible to be ‘better than our enemy’?
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You probably couldn’t have asked for a more thoughtful Chair of the Joint Chiefs than Mark Milley, whose term ends on Sept. 30.
Depleted uranium, one of the playthings of war, won’t bring peace to Ukraine
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Freedom’s just another word for . . . blowing up your children? Giving them cancer?
BRCC president talks program expansion, truck driving range to ease workforce shortages
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Blue Ridge Community College President Dr. John Downey is usually unsure what to share when someone asks him: What’s new?
Blue Ridge celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with Chicana writer’s workshop
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September 15 to October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month, and Blue Ridge Community College will celebrate on September 14.
U.S. policy toward Saudi Arabia serves to normalize the killing fields
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There’s a refugee trail from the Sahel drought region in Africa, into war-ravaged Yemen, and up through Saudi Arabia towards Iraq and Turkey. It’s known as “the Eastern route,” or sometimes “the Yemeni route.”
Virginia, East Coast likely to feel effects of Category 5 Hurricane Lee next week
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Hurricane Lee has strengthened to a Category 5 with 165 mph winds, and the intense storm will eventually track toward the United States.
