
The annual rant about student fees paying for college athletics
I guess I need to write the annual column raising issue with student athletics activity fees being used to balance budgets at UVA and Virginia Tech.

I guess I need to write the annual column raising issue with student athletics activity fees being used to balance budgets at UVA and Virginia Tech.

UVA Athletics, for the 12th straight year, finished in the Top 25 of the Directors’ Cup, the measure of across-the-board athletics success.

Virginia highways will be bustling this week as millions of people take to the road for the Independence Day holiday, and Virginia State Police is urging motorists to ensure safety and celebration go hand-in-hand.

The Flying Squirrels (41-40) fell, 7-6, to the Harrisburg Senators (43-40) Monday night at FNB Field.

The new Waynesboro City Council is now seated, formally, with the annual reorganization meeting Monday morning bringing on Sam Hostetter and Bobby Henderson, who were both elected in the May city elections.

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA), Rob Portman (R-OH), Angus King (I-ME), and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) introduced the Restore Our Parks Act, bipartisan legislation to addressthe $12 billion maintenance backlog at the National Park Service (NPS).

IMS Gear, a German-based manufacturer of automotive equipment, will invest $1.05 million to upgrade its CNC cutting machine in the City of Virginia Beach.

The Flying Squirrels (41-39) were shutout, 2-0, for just the third time this season by the Harrisburg Senators (42-40) on Sunday night at FNB Field.

UVA Athletics was boosted by a fifth-place finish in the NCAA Rowing Championships to finish 21st in the final 2017-18 Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup competition

Senator Tim Kaine will spend Sunday, July 1, to Saturday, July 7, campaigning across Virginia, making at least 25 stops across the entire Commonwealth.
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