Third university declines radical compact from Trump; UVA silent on decision
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A third university has announced it has declined a compact intended to reward schools that champion the president’s agenda.
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Roddy Scheer | Have scientists figured out what’s causing honeybees to die off?
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The beekeeping industry is in crisis as honeybee deaths have reached record levels in the U.S.
Roanoke: Author Beth Macy has faith Democrats can win back rural America
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Whenever Roanoke author Beth Macy visited her hometown in Ohio, she was struck by how the city and its residents had changed over the years.
State Senate leadership demands UVA reject Trump compact, likens it to political extortion
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Three Virginia senators have reached out to UVA expressing “grave concern” regarding a compact sent by the Trump administration.
Useful idiots: Top American comics take Riyadh Comedy Festival blood money
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Bill Burr did what his Saudi handlers hoped he would do – he put over the authoritarian kingdom, where slavery is very much legal, where women are second-class citizens, at best, as being, you know, pretty much just like America.
Trump signals that he will use the shutdown to stiff government employees
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Donald Trump, who has a reputation for stiffing employees and contractors, is, not surprisingly, trying to stiff hundreds of thousands of government employees about to be furloughed during his shutdown.
UVA has not made a decision on Trump compact, but faculty strongly oppose it
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The University of Virginia’s faculty has voted to reject any cooperation with U.S. Department of Education on a proposed compact.
The latest with Ben Cline: Our congressman’s phony war on mifepristone continues
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Remember in June when Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline pretended to be concerned about the supposed risks to water quality of the abortion drug mifepristone?
Joe Rogan said the planet is cooling | But what does Joe Rogan know?
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Many media influencers, including Joe Rogan, the comedian and podcaster, have claimed that climate change is exaggerated, even that the planet is cooling.
Roller derby | Rocktown Rollers hosting annual Autumn Jam at Augusta Expo
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Roller derby, popular in the 1940s and 1950s, enjoyed a resurgence on TV in the 1970s, then went back into hibernation.
