They want you! [February 19]
The Virginia Defense Force’s 3rd Brigade will activate another battalion to serve in Charlottesville, as well as the Staunton, Lexington and Clifton Forge areas.
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They want you! [February 19]
A new defense battalion is moving in
The Virginia Defense Force’s 3rd Brigade will activate another battalion to serve in Charlottesville, as well as the Staunton, Lexington and Clifton Forge areas.
Dems turning back on immigrants? [February 16]
Are state Democrats now marching to the same beat as the Republicans when it comes to immigration?
Obama’s real world [February 17]
New York Times columnist Frank Rich writes of a racial sea change in Virginia politics that may make Senator John McCain’s campaign stink worse than low tide.
Testing the market [February 18]
Well, look what popped up in Sunday’s Daily Progress, page B7, just across from George Will himself.
25 anti-immigrant bills still alive
When this year’s General Assembly kicked off, there were around 120 bills that would have had a negative impact on the state’s immigrant communities as local politicians responded to the national, and in some places local, hysteria over illegal immigration. Many of those bills died in subcommittee, but according to Tim Freilich, legal director of […]
Light ‘em up [February 15]
Proposals to ban smoking in public places such as restaurants, stores and offices came to a dead end once again in the Virginia House of Delegates, reports The Washington Post today.
Two strikes and you’re out [February 14]
Sexshuns, a sneaker and apparel store on the Downtown Mall, was raided by federal agents yesterday.
Obama, McCain win big [February 13]
Barack Obama and John McCain swept the Potomac Primaries yesterday, winning Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia.
Jason Keefer, Jenn Rhubright and Tanya Claire
Somehow it seems right that an art show hosted by a tattoo parlor would have a quality of lightness about it—not because being tattooed is an inconsequential thing, but because mostly what people have inked onto their bodies are fantasies. As I strolled up and down the long red wall backing Ben Around’s current group […]