FXBG Advance Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Radiology Group Sues Mary Washington Healthcare for $2.65 Million+. The Herons of Araby. One Small Step for Democracy. More Virginia Newz.
Radiology Group Sues Mary Washington Healthcare for $2.65 Million+
By Steve Watkins, Advance Editor
Plaintiffs Allege MWHC Engaged in ‘Blatant Attempt to Destroy Radiologists’ Business,’ Warn Ongoing Conflict Could Cause ‘Elimination of Mammography Services within a 50-mile Radius of Fredericksburg.’
Hospital Officials Dismiss ‘financially motivated lawsuit that has nothing to do with patient care.’
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The Herons of Araby: Environmentalism as Coping
By Ranjit Singh, Advance Environmental Columnist
I sometimes join friends counting nests in Potomac Creek’s great blue heron rookery. It’s an annual event conducted in late January, before the birds return for the spring nesting season. The heron rookery lies on the other side of the creek, just a few hundred yards from our farm. I used to bring my kids when they were small and less distracted.
Counting twiggy nests perched high in the crowns of sycamores and pin oaks is muddy, laborious work even on a fortuitously nice midwinter day. It’s hard going.
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One Small Step for Democracy: Somebody Finally Stands up to Trump’s Desecration of the Kennedy Center
By Donnie Johnston, Advance Columnist
As I watched the scaffolding go up outside the Kennedy Center and the letters come down, I could not help but think, “One small step for democracy.”
I know that’s an odd thought for a country celebrating its 250th anniversary as a republic, but since the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term, we have seen our freedoms start slipping away, one by one.
And like the frog that sits complacently in the pot of water that is heating up, we have done little to stop Trump in his bid to become dictator in a nation where such autocrats have long since been despised.
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And THEN What Happened? (Now for the Rest of the Stories….)
VaNews/Virginia Public Access Project
Articles from newspapers throughout the Commonwealth and Washington D.C. Firewalls will block you from reading some, but you’ll at least have some idea about what’s going on from the headlines, which, let’s be honest, are all many of us have time to read anyway.
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