On Tuesday, an Augusta County jury convicted former Nexus Services CEO Michael P. Donovan and his husband, Richard E. Moore, on all six felony counts in the theft of more than $400,000 from Zachary Cruz. The jury took less than three hours. For anyone who has followed Donovan’s history, the verdict was not a surprise. […]
A federal judge has ordered a court-appointed receiver and RLI Insurance Company to explain what has happened in the receivership over Nexus Services, Inc., more than two years after the receiver was told to report back within 120 days and never did. On Friday, September 25, 2026, I called the chambers of Senior U.S. District […]
James Madison University’s beloved Duke Dog has apparently been drafted into partisan politics, and nobody seems to have asked JMU first. A get-out-the-vote flyer posted online this week by the Harrisonburg Democratic Party targets JMU students with the headline “Your Future Is On The Ballot!” Perched in the corner, wearing his trademark crown and rendered […]
With six days to go before Harrisonburg voters head to the polls, Councilwoman Monica Robinson’s reelection website is asking for contributions of up to $1,500 without the one line Virginia law requires on every campaign site: a statement telling voters who paid for it. The site, electmonicarobinson.com, carries no “Paid for by” or “Authorized by” […]
Waynesboro’s RISE Foundation will close its doors on October 31. Four years ago, the General Assembly handed this small after-school reading program $250,000 of state taxpayer money. Its last public tax return shows less than $6,000 in the bank, a $10,000 loan whose balance did not move in a year, and negative net assets for […]
It is more than about time this literal piece of shit has been arrested and charged with more crimes. Mike Donovan, the CEO of Nexus Services Inc., which has monetary judgments that with interest total nearly $1,000,000,000 (one billion dollars), was arrested on Sunday, October 11. It is believed that Donovan has been charged with […]
The Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project raises money in Virginia, but its legal authority to do so expired more than a year ago — and most of the grants it paid out had nothing to do with its stated mission. A Harrisonburg nonprofit that bills itself as the custodian of the Shenandoah Valley’s African American […]
Within one year, the Virginia State Board of Elections has twice examined the work of Rockingham County’s Director of Elections and General Registrar, Lisa B. Gooden, and both times it found problems. The first was a double count of central absentee precinct (CAP) votes in the November 5, 2024 general election. By Gooden’s own account, […]
Something remarkable has happened to Virginia’s voter rolls this year, and unless you read Virginia public radio or a handful of legal blogs, you probably missed it. I know I did. On January 22, 2026, Senior U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney Jr. of the Eastern District of Virginia ruled in King v. O’Bannon (Civil […]
“[R]ecovering the rich African American history of the Shenandoah Valley,” sharing that history “with the descendants of their families,” and “illuminating the way it was by adding to the research that has been done.”