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A reader, and longtime critic, whose last email to me, before last week, was to criticize us for “political blather” that “charades as journalism,” took a different tone on our reporting on the situation facing Waynesboro Public Schools.
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Northrop Grumman breezed into town a couple years ago promising hundreds of millions in investment and high-paying jobs. Waynesboro leaders clearly didn’t do their homework about how much the deal would end up costing us.
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Elkton Town Council voted 5-0 at a public meeting on Monday to cut ties with Flock Safety, effective immediately.
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A Campbell County Circuit Court judge, on Tuesday, dismissed a suit brought by a member of the Bedford County Board of Supervisors challenging the reproductive rights amendment referendum.
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Trump’s ICE goons are in Virginia now, as evidenced by the video of the beatdown of a Guatemalan immigrant outside a hospital in Suffolk that has gone viral.
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Flock Safety is quietly building the most pervasive node-to-node mass surveillance network ever unleashed on the American public, and the corporate mindset behind it is chilling.
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ICE quietly decided last month that it would no longer report the deaths of detainees who had been recently released from custody.
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Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, we live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distribute, restrict and revoke as it sees fit.
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A Buffalo Gap High School student died in a Feb. 18 shooting on Maple Leaf Drive in Augusta County that the county sheriff, Donald Smith, said, per a news release, was “an isolated incident involving the illegal sale of handguns.”
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Twenty-four years ago today, July 2, 2002, Augusta Free Press was breathed into being. Looking back on July 2, 2002, it’s safe to say, we didn’t think we’d make it 24 years. My goal was much more modest – to just make it three months.
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