
My Name is Mud: And how my life turned out differently
The reason I’m not a lawyer today: I couldn’t get the song “My Name is Mud” by Primus out of my head.

The reason I’m not a lawyer today: I couldn’t get the song “My Name is Mud” by Primus out of my head.

Governor Ralph Northam today unveiled the budget that he will be proposing to the Virginia General Assembly as they prepare to return to Richmond on April 11 to finish their work on the Commonwealth’s biennial spending plan.

Peter G. Hawes, a recent graduate of the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, has joined the Monticello Area Community Action Agency (MACAA) as Senior Program Director.

Distinguished Washington and Lee alumna and journalist Alisha Laventure ’09 will give the keynote address for the Society of Professional Journalists on March 26 at 5 p.m. in Stackhouse Theatre, Elrod Commons. Her address is free and open to the public.

The Shenandoah Valley Art Center, during the month of April, in the Cabell/Arehart Gallery is presenting internationally recognized landscape artist, Kevin H. Adams.

A quartet of alums from the 2017 Heifetz Institute will be returning to Staunton this weekend to participate in a pair of breezy concerts celebrating the arrival of spring and the 333rd anniversary of the birth of the iconic composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

The Southern Environmental Law Center and Environmental Defense Fund are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to release information about the Heartland Institute’s efforts to attack climate science.

U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-Va.) pushed the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) to take immediate action regarding critical failures at the Washington D.C. VA Medical Center (DCVAMC) highlighted in an Inspector General report released last week that showed patients were put at risk due to supply, equipment, and inventory issues.

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of enterprise analytics and mobility software, has renewed its headquarters lease at 1850 Towers Crescent Plaza in Fairfax County and plans to invest $6 million in capital improvements.

The Old Dominion Monarchs scored 11 runs in the fourth inning and never looked back, on the way to a 19-4 win over the VMI Keydets on a cold, blustery day in Norfolk Wednesday afternoon.
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