
Obenshain voter integrity bill passes Senate
A bipartisan bill introduced by Sen. Mark Obenshain (R-Rockingham) and co-patroned by Sen. George Barker (D-Fairfax) improves voter integrity by eliminating split voting precincts in the Commonwealth.

A bipartisan bill introduced by Sen. Mark Obenshain (R-Rockingham) and co-patroned by Sen. George Barker (D-Fairfax) improves voter integrity by eliminating split voting precincts in the Commonwealth.

Del. Steve Landes, R-Weyers Cave, today introduced a substitute to House Bill 2718, the Interstate 81 Corridor Improvement Program, which was reported out of the House Committee on Transportation with a 20-0 vote.

Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline isn’t on board, not surprisingly, with the Democrats’ For the People Act.

Sen. Mark Warner has requested ongoing briefings from the Trump Administration regarding the deal it reached to remove sanctions on several companies owned by the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

You don’t get out of the trailer park just giving up. It would be years before I’d realize that politics wasn’t for me.

Crystal and I launched Augusta Free Press in 2002, but actually, phrasing it that way makes it sound more planned than it was, which was, not really at all.

Washington and Lee University will host an address by the Rev. William J. Barber II as part of celebration of the life and legacy of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Proponents of equality launched a weeklong surge Monday to encourage state lawmakers to make history by becoming the 38th and last state needed to ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), first drafted in 1923.

Democrats, in our coffee shops, scooting around town in our hybrids listening to NPR, over local-sourced dinners with our foodie friends, find ourselves at an uncharacteristic loss for words when forced to confront the uncomfortable reality.

Virginia Tech students will have a unique opportunity to participate in a blockchain boot camp on Saturday, Jan. 26, on Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus.
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