CASEY: State agencies crack down on highway protests by anti

There’s a new and terrible transportation hazard in the Old Dominion, and two state agencies appear trying to stomp it out: Protests by older activists along highway overpasses.

You might’ve observed that in the upper Shenandoah Valley, at Exit 283 in Woodstock. Or in the New River Valley, on an overpass above U.S. 460.

For weeks, white-haired activists — I call them “gray panthers” — have been staging weekly anti-Trump demonstrations on overpasses in Christiansburg and Woodstock. Many of the protestors are grandparents and/or ex-hippies.

The demonstrators display all caps white letters on black backgrounds spelling messages such as “#ReleaseTheFiles” — a reference to sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein — and “#WeStandWithDC,” which opposes the federal government’s takeover of law enforcement in