Earlier this month, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced a new policy aimed at propelling the return of state employees to in-person work.
We hear it every time. “This is not something we should even have to worry about.”
It’s time for Americans who want stricter gun laws—nearly a two-thirds majority, several polls say—to turn out in force and elect legislators who will pass them.
Commentary: Older people and younger people need each other, and the more we acknowledge that, the better off all of us will be.
🎧 The Amber Heard-Johnny Depp case or inflation? Why people seem to focus on social issues rather than on solutions that could fix the problems they care about the most.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Many had hoped 2021 would be a turning point — COVID-19 would be in our rear view and we’d be on a path back to normal. While heading in the right direction, COVID may be with us for the foreseeable future.
Imagine if approximately 40% of students were not graduating in a given year. If this were the case, schools across Virginia likely would be eager to revamp their systems in order to help their students succeed.
Lauren Bernett was living a dream that thousands of high school athletes chase.
A Spotsylvania County parent recently expressed concern about eight books available to students in county school libraries and wants them removed. In a perplexingly facile way of proving her point, the parent has taken to reading the most profane passages from these books at public school bo…
From a distance, I cannot help but notice the back and forth regarding certain books found in Spotsylvania County Public Schools. The disease can be diagnosed any number of ways: McCarthyism, cancel culture, book banning, peer pressure, and shaming. Yet at core is a problem involving a socia…
E.R. Frank is an author of young adult fiction. Her first book, “America,” was published in 2002 and has been translated into more than five languages. It was chosen as a New York Times notable book and is available in Spotsylvania County high school libraries.
This newspaper has spilled no small amount of ink in recent months on the Spotsylvania County School Board and its four controlling board members. They, along with a vocal group of parents, have caused any number of disruptions to the system.
A farmer’s wife told me her husband came in the house at the end of the day just recently. And he was grinning, telling her he had just that day started cutting hay.
Earlier this month, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced a new policy aimed at propelling the return of state employees to in-person work.
Lauren Bernett was living a dream that thousands of high school athletes chase.
This newspaper has spilled no small amount of ink in recent months on the Spotsylvania County School Board and its four controlling board members. They, along with a vocal group of parents, have caused any number of disruptions to the system.
Writing on April 19 about the deteriorating situation between the Montpelier Descendants Committee and the Montpelier Foundation, we opined:
We hear it every time. “This is not something we should even have to worry about.”
Commentary: Older people and younger people need each other, and the more we acknowledge that, the better off all of us will be.
🎧 The Amber Heard-Johnny Depp case or inflation? Why people seem to focus on social issues rather than on solutions that could fix the problems they care about the most.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Many had hoped 2021 would be a turning point — COVID-19 would be in our rear view and we’d be on a path back to normal. While heading in the right direction, COVID may be with us for the foreseeable future.
It’s time for Americans who want stricter gun laws—nearly a two-thirds majority, several polls say—to turn out in force and elect legislators who will pass them.
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This year, Stafford, Culpeper, and the greater Fredericksburg region have a unique opportunity to fill an open seat in the newly created 7th U.S. Congressional District. Republican Crystal Vanuch, two-time chairman of the Stafford County Board of Supervisors is running to defeat Abigail Span…