Warner reintroduces legislation to provide benefits for America’s independent workers
The Portable Benefits for Independent Workers Pilot Program Act was reintroduced in the Senate today by Virginia’s Sen. Mark R. Warner.
The Portable Benefits for Independent Workers Pilot Program Act was reintroduced in the Senate today by Virginia’s Sen. Mark R. Warner.
There is literally just a handful of trans women in competitive high school and college sports. You wouldn’t know that from listening to your local elected Republican.
Local students will graduate high school in the coming weeks and pursue college degrees and careers, and 14.7 percent more will get hired.
Staunton City Schools’ Executive Director of Student Services and Preschool Director Dr. Jelisa Wolfe will retire this summer after 24 years with the school division.

Applications are now open for the Virginia Department of Forestry Emerald Ash Borer cost-share program.
Harrisonburg’s Urban Wood Program continues to give new life by providing wood materials for the StoryWalk and Reading Roost at the Edith J. Carrier Arboretum.
What does it say about the state of our freedoms that there are now more pencil-pushing, bureaucratic (non-military) government agents armed with weapons than U.S. Marines?
The current climate of polarization in the United States has eroded traditions of civility which bolstered policy-making in the past.
New research by Virginia Tech scientists shows that sections of the Chesapeake Bay are sinking at rates of nearly a quarter an inch – or 7 millimeters – a year.
U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger introduced a bill to prevent bureaucracy from slowing down veterans entering the trucking workforce.
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