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Trump wants to flood the market with cheap foreign beef: Why is Ben Cline silent on this?
You’d think that Ben Cline could be bothered to weigh in on Donald Trump’s harebrained scheme, made public today, to flood the U.S. market with 300,000 metric tons of imported ground beef, with a “commitment that this beef will be sold at 25 percent below current market prices,” to protest how this move will hamstring our local farmers.
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Virginia drought update: It’s still pretty droughty, in some places more than others
The Virginia Drought Monitoring Task Force is telling us today that we’re all still in either a drought watch, drought warning or drought emergency.
Waynesboro: Wayne Theatre Alliance announces departure of executive director
The Wayne Theatre Alliance announced that its executive director, Tracy Straight, “has concluded her tenure,” per a release issued on Thursday, in which the nonprofit’s board wished Straight “every success in her future endeavors.”
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Northern Virginia congressmen demand FBI, DOJ review in Carolina Molina case
The feds, predictably, are blaming Carolina Molina, the Northern Virginia licensed counselor who had a gun pointed at her by ICE agents, for almost getting her head blown off last week for the crime of being brown.
Democrats target Tom Perriello, offer resources to flip Fifth District seat
The news involving the Tom Perriello campaign earlier this week was, the congressional race between Perriello and Republican incumbent John McGuire in the Fifth District is trending tighter than the pundits were initially expecting.
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UVA Basketball: Confirmation given on Virginia-Arkansas game in November
Back on July 30, we wrote about how UVA Basketball had added a game with Arkansas to its November schedule.
UVA Football: Backup tailback Solomon Beebe arrested on animal-cruelty charges
A UVA Football player is facing animal-cruelty charges in a troubling case in which a housekeeper at his apartment complex told authorities that she saw the player “punch his dog with a closed fist multiple times.”
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UVA Basketball: Confirmation given on Virginia-Arkansas game in November
Back on July 30, we wrote about how UVA Basketball had added a game with Arkansas to its November schedule.
AEW & ROH star Lee Moriarty: The best-kept secret in professional wrestling
For the past two years, Ring of Honor fans have become familiar with Lee Moriarty's unique gait. Moriarty sashays down to the red and black canvas with the Ring of Honor Men’s Pure Championship in tow, adorned in his ceremonial tiger mask.
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