Virginians urged to practice prevention during fall wildfire season
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Despite the heavy rains across Virginia this year, the Virginia Department of Forestry urges caution as the state’s wildfire season gets underway.
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Alon Ben-Meir: Should the US stop enabling Israel?
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I maintain that regardless of the political, strategic, demographic, and regional vicissitudes, the two-state option remains the only viably sustainable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the one-state solution is simply a non-starter.
Letter: Today’s Democratic Party
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I seem to find myself in the minority in today’s national Democratic Party. I disagree with the tendency of most Democrats (including political candidates for Congress and those in the news media) to constantly bash Donald Trump over his obnoxious personality and his divisive comments.
Alon Ben-Meir: Netanyahu is destroying both Israel and the Palestinians
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Much of what Israel and the Palestinians are experiencing today has befallen them under Netanyahu’s leadership. He believes that the Palestinians will always pose an existential threat to Israel, which led him to pursue domestic policies that dangerously undermined the country’s founding principles of freedom and equality.
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News Releases: [email protected] Advertising Inquiries: [email protected] Augusta Free Press launched in 2002, with the idea of co-founders Crystal Graham and Chris Graham being, start with online news, eventually leading into a print weekly newspaper. It became obvious a few months in that we could reach a lot more people online than we ever could afford…
Food for Change set for screening at Bridgewater College
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In recognition of October being National Co-op Month, the documentary film Food for Change will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, in the Boitnott Room at Bridgewater College.
Trump signs FAA legislation that includes Warner unmanned systems priorities
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President Trump signed into law bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) through 2023.
Virginia receives $869,508 in federal funding to support threat assessment in schools
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Gov. Ralph Northam announced this week that $869,508 has been awarded to the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety (VCSCS), housed within the Department of Criminal Justice Services.
Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences initiative launches partnerships in Kenya
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As Robin White and her Virginia Tech colleagues drove from the Nairobi airport to meet their new collaborators in Kenya for the first time, her training as an animal and poultry science researcher kicked in.
Alon Ben-Meir: The end of Syria’s civil war and the beginning of the conflict over the spoils
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With Syria’s civil war nearing an end with the takeover of the city of Idlib by Assad’s forces and his allies, I do not expect that Syria will soon enter a period of calm and amicably divide the spoils of the war.
