Back in 2009, Congress passed the Obama/Biden administration’s $800 billion “shovel-ready” infrastructure plan as a way to stimulate the econo…
As discontent swells nationwide over police departments, in Virginia at least one thing will improve: their transparency.
Fatal drug overdoses continue to be the top cause of unnatural deaths in the commonwealth, according to preliminary figures recently released …
Seventy years ago this April 23, a 16-year girl led a strike at her all-Black high school in Farmville that helped lead to the dismantling of …
Hey, look who wants a special session now!
One of the first lessons we learn as children is that actions have consequences.
Virginia’s new Redistricting Commission said earlier this month that although the commissioners will get new census data delayed by the corona…
If you think Republicans are hidebound, backward-looking and resistant to change, we are here today to tell you that you’re wrong.
Historic Garden Week 2021, the nation’s only statewide house and garden tour, begins Saturday, April 17. This acclaimed event features more th…
It has been clear for some time that Charlottesville’s Confederate statuary was on the way out.
It is understandable: the desire to embrace an elderly loved one, to shed a mask and smile brightly at the counter clerk, to reunite with a gr…
GOVERNOR Ralph Northam has asked the General Assembly to set aside $250,000 to hire outside help to investigate State Inspector General Michae…
There is a natural human instinct to declare victory before it actually is achieved. From the Chicago Tribune’s infamous “Dewey Defeats Truman…
As the saying goes, make mine Virginia wine. And as the recent winners of the 2021 Virginia Governor’s Cup competition prove, there’s no short…
The promise of Easter is eternal life with a loving God who was willing to suffer and die for us, but who also vanquished death by rising from…
Entering the final day of March, public health officials across Virginia and the nation received both good and bad news in the fight against COVID-19.
The novel coronavirus has created a whole slew of new problems that nobody anticipated, much less planned for, leaving even public officials i…
There are a lot of things that are going right. Here are five things that are going wrong.
Culpeper County Circuit Court clerk candidate Marshall Keene claims in a video posted Monday on his campaign’s Facebook page that the Culpeper…
Editor’s note: Tuesday, March 23, marks the 246th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s famed “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death” speech to the Second…
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Dr. Omar Bagasra is founder of the South Carolina Biotechnology Center at Claflin University and an acknowledged expert on matters such as vac…
Culpeper residents have been deprived of a live, shot-from-the-hip forum featuring the two candidates running for the county’s clerk of Circui…
When the longtime television journalist Roger Mudd passed away this past week at age 93, his death closed a chapter in American history.
A year ago on March 14, just days before the official start of spring, Virginia announced its first coronavirus-related death. A James City Co…
There are many ways to date the COVID-19 pandemic of 2019-21 (at least we hope 2021 will be the end date).
On Saturday morning, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., stepped outside of the U.S. Capitol to an early morning sunrise. After hours of negotiation o…
For nearly a year, public health officials have pored over different kinds of data to assess community spread of COVID-19 and help keep Virgin…
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