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The Albemarle County Electoral Board selected long-time deputy registrar Lauren E. Eddy to become the county’s new general registrar and director of elections.
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The Interstate 81 Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet on Thursday at 1 p.m. in the Shenandoah Room of the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center.
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Way back on July 2, 2002, I couldn’t have imagined that I’d ever be writing about Augusta Free Press turning 20. I was just thinking that morning, as we were about to hit the publish button for the first time, about how we were going to keep the lights on, and the website that we had just launched that day didn’t figure prominently into those plans.
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Multiple changes to the legalization of Virginia take effect July 1, according to a news release from Virginia NORML, a nonprofit organization in favor of legalizing and regulating responsible adult use of marijuana.
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Time to let women speak their minds about the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v Wade . Men have spoken, made rules, passed laws, literally pontificated, and generally exercised dominator control over women far far far too long.
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Not all the news from D.C. on Friday was awful news. The U.S. House voted 234-193 to pass the Safer Communities Act, the first meaningful gun safety legislation to see the light of day in 30 years.
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Liberals and progressives are mad as hell, not going to take it anymore, because the Supreme Court has overturned Roe.
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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.
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Leave politics aside for a moment, if you can. What does the word “conservative” mean to you, outside of that cursed arena?
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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.
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