Well Dwayne Yancey wins the 'biggest news in the Friday news hole' award with this one. #VALeg Doesn't look like the story is live on Cardinal News yet, but here's the presser👉augustahealth.com/2025/09/august…

FBI Richmond impersonators threatening residents, trying to extort them for money wric.com/news/scam-aler…

Ladies and gentlemen, the generative AI industry:

New euphemism for slave just dropped on Wikipedia

The Richmond City Council voted 8-1 to approve a $5.8M payment to wrongfully convicted Marvin Grimm. Still some drama over the use of money meant to be reserved for affordable housing, but the Avula admin defused some of it by promising another $2M richmonder.org/council-recap-…

there needs to be some more incentive structures for people to hold off and wait for the facts.

‘These threats are not random’: VSU president issues statement on campus threats hours after lockdown lifted wric.com/news/virginia-…

The home building boom is over. Building permits sank to 1.3 million in August --> the lowest level since the pandemic spring of 2020. As Bryan DeHenau🇺🇸🇺🇦 often says, we need ~2 million new homes a year to even come close to meeting demand. We're going in the wrong direction.

Coming out on Wednesday: I'll be profiling HD-66, based on Spotsylvania and Caroline counties. It's a bit of a "reach" seat for Democrats, but it's a fascinating race with the most senior member of the House in his first competitive race since *1989*!

The City Council voted 7-2 to pass a budget transparency plan allowing more insight into departmental funding requests. It passed despite opposition from Mayor Danny Avula's administration richmonder.org/city-council-o…

Highlights from Road & Track January 1988 "Inside every good mechanic, there's a little demon."

I went on Breaking Points to discuss my article COMPACT on Milei’s Big Beautiful Bailout from Trump. Big thanks to Emily Jashinsky & Krystal Ball. (Link to article in next post 👇) youtu.be/unaPXn3VWwc?si…

Cool. The old Daily Press building got added to the Virginia Landmarks Register. Dave Ress Peter Dujardin

Second Circuit asked to revive false claims suit against Canadian seafood firm JOSH RUSSELL courthousenews.com/second-circuit…

The voting record for the man who allegedly threatened Del. Kim Taylor shows that he lives with his mom and has not voted since 2020 …giniapoliticalnewsletter.substack.com/p/del-kim-tayl…

NEW: RTD opinion editor Scott Bass is also gone from the paper after last week's layoffs. What that means for the future of the opinion page is unclear, because there's been no announcement to subscribers richmonder.org/times-dispatch…

Astounding how quickly Google docs became near unusable. Old man shout at cloud moment.

Danville City Councilman Lee Vogler returned to his post Tuesday night, marking his first public appearance since a July attack that left him severely burned. wsls.com/news/local/202…

Great way to show voter concentration in this map

Oscar Smith High legend and Pro Football Hall of Famer Kenny Easley has passed away. Rest in Peace to one of VA's truly all-time great football players.