
Spanberger on House vote to move COVID-19 relief forward
Seventh District Democrat Abigail Spanberger released the following statement after voting to move one step closer to delivering additional COVID-19 relief to Central Virginians.

Seventh District Democrat Abigail Spanberger released the following statement after voting to move one step closer to delivering additional COVID-19 relief to Central Virginians.

According to a recent poll, more than half of Americans would not use a contact tracing app and similar tools from Google and Apple over privacy concerns.

UVA junior forward Alexa Spaanstra has been named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List.

The Baseball Writers’ Association of America, a group of dithering idiots, did their best to continue the rain on the parade, deciding as a body on Tuesday not to induct any new members into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Virginia House Bill 2081, which would ban firearms at polling places, passed the Virginia House of Delegates and now advances to the State Senate.

Former governor Terry McAuliffe has released his plan for reforming the state’s criminal justice system, focusing on parole, marijuana legalization and the restoration of voting rights.

Today might be the most important inauguration day since the first one, back in 1789. It’s a credit to those folks that the Frankenstein creation that got us to that day worked to get us to this one. The states certified their elections, Congress, eventually, resoundingly, followed suit. The system … worked. Barely, sure, but it worked.

“Ben Cline must resign” has a nice ring to it, in terms of messaging; it rhymes, anyway. Bad news, though, for those who’d like to see it happen: no, he’s not going to, not in this current environment.

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Clemson got basically no love from the writer types, like me, in the preseason ACC voting. We had the Tigers 10th in the conference, after a couple of down years for Brad Brownell’s group.
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