Ben Cline touts his ‘Valley Values’: Which is good PR, but, it’s all an act
Our Sixth District congressman, Ben Cline, likes to tout how his values were “shaped growing up here in the Shenandoah Valley.”
Our Sixth District congressman, Ben Cline, likes to tout how his values were “shaped growing up here in the Shenandoah Valley.”
Sid Bream was a baseball standout at Liberty University, but his coach there – former Major League pitcher Al Worthington – never saw him play in high school.
On a recent weekday at 4:30 p.m. – exactly 150 minutes before the opening tip – veteran sports broadcaster Steve Buckhantz walked into the almost-empty Atlantic Union Bank Center on the campus of JMU in Harrisonburg.

Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger detailed her plans to make utility bills more affordable, as the cost of electricity continues to rise.
Christopher Darnell Jones got five life sentences plus 23 years for the Nov. 13, 2022, shootings of five UVA student-athletes.
The Robert E. Lee High School Class of 1975 will honor a father and son who were pillars of the community throughout their lives.
John Wetzel, a basketball star at Wilson Memorial High School in Augusta County in the early 1960s, was drafted out of Virginia Tech by the Los Angeles Lakers in the eighth round as the 75th overall pick in 1966.
Not grading on a curve this year, because this year’s UVA Football team looks like the real deal. You give the head coach $30 million to build a roster, you expect him to build a roster.
In honor of the zeitgeist, I’ve come to the rash decision to abandon my decade-long stance of anti-Trumpism and go all aboard on the Trump train.

VDOT and the City of Lexington will dedicate newly completed pedestrian-access improvements on North Main Street (Route 11 Business).
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