You want America back? It’s about time to start kicking some MAGA ass
Friends and AFP readers are in shock and awe over the pace of the efforts to dismantle American democracy coming from the Trump/Musk/MAGA team, and all I can say is, buckle in.
Friends and AFP readers are in shock and awe over the pace of the efforts to dismantle American democracy coming from the Trump/Musk/MAGA team, and all I can say is, buckle in.
A LGBTQ center is moving forward with “intention and purpose” despite executive orders by Trump targeting transgender and nonbinary youth.
The suits at UVA Health and VCU Health are cowering in the face of a questionable directive from Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares to stop providing gender-affirming healthcare to trans minors.
U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine and U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith announced $26,250,000 in federal funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the Lee County Sewer Improvements Project.
The UK-based pharmaceutical company Haleon will invest $54.2 million to upgrade its R&D facility in Richmond, which has helped birth or grow products such as Advil, Emergen-C and Robitussin.

Henry L. Marsh III Elementary School was dedicated in Richmond in August 2020.

UVA Football alum Olamide Zaccheaus has emerged as one of the top passing-game weapons for the Washington Commanders, who have a shot this weekend at reaching the Super Bowl for the first time since way back in 1992.
A federal judge denied efforts by Shenandoah County School Board to dismiss a complaint by students and the Virginia NAACP of civil rights violations.
The U.S. Senate passed the Laken Riley Act by a 64-35 margin on Monday, advancing a key item on the Trump administration agenda on Day 1 of his second term in the White House.

Full disclosure: I’ve known Ryan Odom since he was a ball boy at University Hall in the early 1980s, while his pop, Dave Odom, was Terry Holland’s top assistant.
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