Charlottesville child tests positive for measles, likely linked to second case
A child from the Charlottesville area has been confirmed to have the third case of measles this year in Virginia.
A child from the Charlottesville area has been confirmed to have the third case of measles this year in Virginia.
A new Congressional Budget Office report tells us that the Big, Beautiful Bill passed by the U.S. House last month would push 16 million Americans off the health insurance rolls.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin joined legislators, educators, parents and students in Hopewell for a ceremonial bill signing of HB1961 and SB738.

When ICE and other agencies began arresting, detaining, and deporting immigrants this past January under orders from Donald Trump, unions stepped up to support immigrant workers.
An Elkton woman has been added to an advisory committee on sexual and domestic violence by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
The Deep State is not going away. It’s just being replaced: by artificial intelligence — unfeeling, unaccountable, and immortal.

An AFP reader with stage 4 colorectal cancer was told she was exposed to the measles virus after being admitted to the emergency department at UVA Health University Medical Center to be treated for pneumonia last week.
Ben Cline, our Sixth District MAGA congressman, voted last week to slash $1.2 trillion from what our country spends on Medicare and Medicaid, which will cause in the area of 10 million people to lose access to health insurance.
The Central Shenandoah Health District will offer STI testing at pop-up clinics in Lexington and Buena Vista beginning on Friday.
American Dirt sat unread on my shelf for the better part of two years, and every couple of months, I’d pick it up and turn it over in my hands.
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