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The #1 need in Waynesboro: affordable housing. Credit to Waynesboro City Council for voting Monday night to fill a funding gap from the Trump administration to get a $36 million affordable-housing project moving forward.
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Northern Virginia early votes are starting to catch up to where Democrats would like them to be ahead of the April 21 congressional redistricting referendum.
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Donald Trump will be in Charlottesville later today for a closed-door fundraiser, which brings up the question – what does this supposed billionaire who can’t run for political office anymore need to raise funds for?
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My mother took a job making the minimum wage in 1985, $3.35 an hour – 2026 value: $10.17 an hour – and that was what she had to raise two kids on, because my father didn’t pay the court-ordered child support, because he was an ass.
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Man, ol’ Larry Sabato is losing his touch; that, or he was just tailoring his thinking on a recent bad Abigail Spanberger poll number to the audience, in the case of ABC7 in DC, the MAGA-adjacent Sinclair Broadcasting.
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Under the Trump administration, the language of empire has also been imbued with a religious fervor that recasts Jesus Christ — not as a peacemaker — but as a mascot for power, conquest and control.
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Donald Trump has sacked Pam Bondi as his attorney general, but don’t get too excited, because the next one is going to be just as bad, probably worse.
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Mary Washington coach Marcus Kahn has received the 2026 Glenn Robinson National Coach of the Year award, which is presented annually to the top head coach in D3.
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The Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act subsidizes fossil fuels by an average of $3.5 billion each year, according to a new report from Senate Budget Committee Democrats.
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Democrats are saying all the right things about the latest attempt by Donald Trump to write and then pass his own federal law, this one banning mail-in voting, but seriously, this one doesn’t even need to go to court.
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