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Early voting in Virginia begins on Sept. 18: What you need to know
15+ hour, 30+ min ago (511+ words) Election Day for our 2026 midterms, and local races in Harrisonburg, Staunton and Waynesboro, among other localities in Virginia, is Tuesday, Nov. 3, but early voting begins this coming Friday, Sept. 18. In addition to the local elections, we’ll have elections for the…...
Beth Macy pledges to back congressional data center moratorium
15+ hour, 51+ min ago (205+ words) Issues involving proposed data centers are, for the most part, local issues, but Beth Macy, running for Congress representing the Valley, thinks the feds can do more to back local residents who don’t want these AI-enabling monstrosities in their backyards....
Warner, Kaine sign on to challenge of USPS takeover of mail-in ballots
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (427+ words) Mark Warner and Tim Kaine have joined a large group of lawmakers and former lawmakers in the filing of a legal brief with the Supreme Court in a case challenging the legality of a U.S. Postal Service effort to control the…...
Waynesboro gets small, almost nothing, grant from state for school security
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (222+ words) Before you get too upset about how little Waynesboro is set to get from the 2026-27 School Security Equipment Grant program administered by the Virginia Department of Education, keep in mind, the applications would have been filed weeks ago. Which is…...
Ben Cline goes solo, as planned, at Rotary Club event: Where's the beef?
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (345+ words) Ben Cline is trying to claim that Beth Macy failed to show up for a second time to a “scheduled debate” of Sixth District congressional candidates, which, in fact, he scheduled to be a solo from the jump. “This was…...
Supplements Quality and Regulations in Ireland vs the USA
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (566+ words) The United States takes a distinctly different approach to supplement regulation, primarily governed by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994. Under this legislation, dietary supplements occupy a unique category – neither food nor drug – with regulations administered by…...
America after 9/11: 25 years of fear, war, surveillance, permanent emergency
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (1659+ words) “I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.” — Osama bin Laden (October 2001) “GIVE THEM NIGHTMARES....
IRS and Arizona Tax Debt Relief: What Phoenix Taxpayers Should Know
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (197+ words) Understanding those programs is how the door opens. Firms such as J. David Tax Law build their practices around them, helping Phoenix individuals and businesses settle liabilities with both the IRS and the Arizona DOR. Here’s the landscape. Federal relief isn’t…...
Sports betting boom presents Virginia with an economic conundrum
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (638+ words) The online gambling sector in the United States has flourished in recent years, but regulatory issues are still presenting challenges in many regions. Only eight states have legalized real-money online casinos as September 2026, but that has not prevented people across…...
Trump hits a nerve with message to people who want to 'destroy our country"
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (503+ words) I can’t say why the latest whatever-that-was from Donald Trump, who today wished a “Happy Labor Day to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, and Dumocrats who will do anything possible to destroy our Country,” hit me a particular…...