Advance Morning News
It's Thursday, January 9, 2024. Today, Dr. Stephen Farnsworth of UMW looks ahead to the 2025 Virginia Legislative session, and History Thursday takes us to Fauquier Street.
2025 Virginia Legislative Preview
By Dr. Stephen J. Farnsworth
Moderate legislators, like Edd Houck and John Chichester, who once held the extremists at bay while across-the-aisle deals were cut are nowhere to be found. The result? Gridlock.
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History Thursday: 307 Fauquier Street
By Adele Uphaus
Home was owned by Collin Williams, one of just six Black property owners in Fredericksburg in 1863.
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