
Emmett Hanger: Focusing on good news in Virginia
A big, genuine heartfelt word of thanks and compliment to our community hospital Augusta Health for organizing and running a top notch vaccine clinic for this area.

A big, genuine heartfelt word of thanks and compliment to our community hospital Augusta Health for organizing and running a top notch vaccine clinic for this area.

Created through the American Rescue Plan, the Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund seeks to address many challenges laid bare by the pandemic.

NAKASEC Action Fund is endorsing Jennifer Carroll Foy for the Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination.

Glenn Youngkin, who is lo-ho-ho-ho-oaded, is the Republican nominee for Virginia governor, at the end of a process that worked out about as well as it could for the Virginia GOP, considering.

What is it with Republicans not wanting people to vote or participate in government? Dumb question, obvious answer. The latest battleground is the City of Staunton, which for the next four years is under the thumb of a 4-3 Republican City Council majority.

The I-81 Advisory Committee is charged with providing advice and making recommendations to the Commonwealth Transportation Board regarding the development of the I-81 Corridor Improvement Program.

Conventional wisdom has it that Republican areas would be severely lagging behind the rest of the country in COVID-19 vaccinations, but that’s not proving to be the case locally. Credit needs to go here to the hard work of the team at Augusta Health.

National leaders are asking the Bridging Divides Initiative to provide them with more timely, reliable, and context-specific data on targeted violence events

Roanoke Del. Sam Rasoul released on Friday his plan to ensure the right to vote is never taken away from any Virginia citizen and get corporate money out of Virginia politics.

Republicans don’t like the idea because it means two more Democrats in the United States Senate, though they don’t say that out loud, instead pushing for “retrocession,” basically, subsuming the District back into Maryland.
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