
Senate passes Keep Kids Fed Act, but Rand Paul filibuster threat sends it back to House
The Senate voted Thursday to extend a COVID-era school lunch program, but the work to beat the deadline for the expiration of the program is not yet done.

The Senate voted Thursday to extend a COVID-era school lunch program, but the work to beat the deadline for the expiration of the program is not yet done.

Leave politics aside for a moment, if you can. What does the word “conservative” mean to you, outside of that cursed arena?

The Jan. 6 Committee is showing us how fragile our democracy is. Our trust in each other and in our institutions is waning – in both parties.

How can we in good conscience celebrate Father’s Day in the middle of an epidemic of gun violence almost exclusively perpetuated by men? We can’t.

The U.S. House passed, in bipartisan fashion, technically speaking, the Protecting Our Kids Act, a package of gun violence prevention legislation.

In observance of the Juneteenth Day holiday, many offices at the Augusta County Government Center, along with the Augusta County libraries and Shenandoah Valley Social Services offices, will be closed on Monday, June 20.

Ben Cline, following in the footsteps of Bob Goodlatte, barely makes a noise in Congress. But because Democrats in Richmond and D.C. have given up on the Interstate 81 corridor, people here have no alternative.

Fifty-five years ago this month, Martin Luther King, Jr. published his fourth and final book: “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”

I’m not sure if the lede to this story should be, Heath Miller and Herman Moore are on the 2023 College Football Hall of Fame ballot, or, why the hell aren’t they already in?

Welcome, children, to the world we so-called adults are handing over to you—a planetary culture of lies and power.
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