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WMRA Daily 9/11/26 Sep 11, 2026

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Augusta County wants the FCC to block Verizon from discontinuing landline service… Waynesboro residents speak out against allowing Northrop Grumman’s new plant to pollute… Early voting in Virginia starts next Friday, and Jeff Schapiro surveys the political landscape, and takes a look back at political reaction to 9/11….

WMRA Daily 9/10/26 Sep 10, 2026

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Bridgewater is the latest locality to decide to get rid of its Flock cameras… Conservation groups want to stop the widening of a West Virginia highway near the Virginia border… Preservation Virginia lists historic places in our area that are endangered… We talk with the creators behind a new play at Court Square Theater that chronicles an improv comedy duo….

WMRA Daily 9/9/26 Sep 09, 2026

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We check in on Charlottesville’s newly opened homeless shelter… Buena Vista holds its 55th annual Labor Day political festival… A McGaheysville mom builds an online village to support other new moms….

WMRA Daily 9/8/26 Sep 08, 2026

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UVa employees march for a living wage on Labor Day… A Waynesboro man is found dead in his car, submerged in a Nelson County lake… Democrats blast President Trump and celebrate Beth Macy’s candidacy at a fundraiser in Harrisonburg….

WMRA Daily 9/7/26 Sep 07, 2026

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A suspected arsonist sets fire to tents at a former homeless encampment in Charlottesville… Virginians are sour on the economy, and consumer sentiment is down… As demand has surged, there is now a shortage of estrogen patches for patients who need them….

WMRA Daily 9/4/26 Sep 04, 2026

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UVA is holding an essay contest for local students to imagine the U-S in 250 years... The group building out the Winchester Co-Op Market hosts a community picnic... We'll hear from organizers of the Virginia Film Festival about a new award honoring producers... A proposed constitutional amendment could allow people in Virginia convicted of a felony to keep their right to vote... and Radio IQ's Michael Pope and Politics Analyst Jeff Schapiro walk us through the week's news in Virginia politics and state government...

WMRA Daily 9/3/26 Sep 03, 2026

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A suspected gunman is dead and a staff member was injured following a shooting at a Waynesboro elementary school... meanwhile police investigated a different shooting nearby in Augusta County... researchers at UVA have identified a potential new treatment for substance use disorder... Attorney General Jay Jones will appeal a federal ruling regarding local law enforcement cooperation with ICE... and Virginia's economy is expected to grow through the end of the year, but there is a downside...

WMRA Daily 9/2/26 Sep 02, 2026

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Charlottesville begins moving people in a riverside encampment to a new homeless shelter… Page County law enforcement touts the arrest of an alleged Venezuelan gang member, but the man was acquitted on the charges they cite… A federal judge blocks a new state law restricting cooperation between some local jurisdictions and ICE….

WMRA Daily 9/1/26 Sep 01, 2026

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Shenandoah County’s NAACP holds a voter registration drive… Meanwhile, three Confederate monuments removed from Capitol Square will relocate to the Shenandoah Valley… We take a look at the market for using local wool to insulate houses….

WMRA Daily 8/31/26 Aug 31, 2026

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Charlottesville’s new homeless shelter gets ready to open… Goochland County is the latest local jurisdiction to end its use of Flock license plate readers… Work crews at Virginia’s capitol remove the final three confederate monuments there….

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