People and politicians have been harping on the need for rural broadband for so long that we have to ask: Will we know what to do when we fina…
A Roanoke County judge last week ordered the Confederate statue near the Roanoke County Courthouse moved — or the courthouse moved.
The expansion of the Affordable Care Act meant more Virginians are Medicaid recipients, and those new Medicaid enrollees appear to be at Groun…
In 2019, FreightCar America announced that it was shutting down its Roanoke operation, eliminating 200 jobs that paid an average of $20 to $21…
During emergencies, most Virginians take the services of the State Police for granted. They shouldn’t. Policing is always a tough, dangerous a…
Glenn Youngkin, Virginia’s Republican nominee for governor, is banking heavily on his background as a private-equity heavyweight. The former c…
A lot of one-time Virginia heroes came down last week. The departure of the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville made national news.
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Virginia’s long-neglected transportation system is chronically short of money. The $2 billion state surplus – or at least part of it – would g…
Today marks the 245th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, by which our founders formally threw off a distant monar…
Editor’s note: As tensions grew between the American colonies and Great Britain in the 1770s, Virginia held a series of meetings to organize i…
When both drivers and cyclists follow the Golden Rule, everybody has a much better chance of staying alive.
More than one month after a cease-fire put an end to 11 days of deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas, elected officials and community lead…
So we finally have two statewide tickets — Terry McAuliffe for governor for the Democrats and Glenn Youngkin for the Republicans.
We’re now officially into summer, and we already have some catching up to do. So here goes:
According to the “Crime in Virginia 2020” report released earlier this month by the Virginia Department of State Police, there were a total of…
Social scientists who study family dynamics are discovering (or rediscovering) the “Dad Effect”—which describes the tangible, measurable benef…
Chesapeake Bay may never be completely restored to the pristine condition it was when Captain John Smith led two exploratory voyages on it in …
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Being forced by the government to forgive unpaid electric bills incurred during a government-imposed lockdown is not charity, it’s coercion.
The court-ordered restrictions on would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley are not a punishment for his mental illness, but precautions de…
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At Mama’s Home Cooking in Montvale, almost every customer and employee ran outside to see the sight — the long line of police cars, lights fla…
It could have begun with something as innocent as a stumble.
Hurricane season starts June 1 and runs through Nov. 30. We asked Curtis Brown, state coordinator of emergency management at the Virginia Depa…
"Politics be damned! Let’s consider what’s best for the men and women of this great state and their families and children.” — U.S. Sen. John W…
In a little more than a month, on July 4th, we’ll celebrate once again our nation’s independence.
A Mexican restaurant in Virginia, Cocina on Market in Leesburg, is serving cicada tacos, topping the sautéed bugs with serrano chilis, avocado…
As institutional and governmental protections against the tsunami of illegal drugs in our society fail, or are deliberately dismantled, local …
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