In 2023, in the richest and most powerful nation on Earth, it shouldn’t be life-threatening to carry a child and give birth. Yet for years, mothers in these United States — Black mothers especially — have suffered from elevated mortality rates, rates that were only driven higher during COVID-19, as women of all ethnic backgrounds saw the sharpest-ever annual fatality spike. New CDC numbers ...
Local courthouses across the commonwealth and the Library of Virginia house an invaluable treasure trove of history, including some of the oldest documents in the country. That treasure is worth protecting. Some of these documents date back to the early 1700s and even the 1600s, back to the days when the first English settlers were struggling to establish homes, farms and governments in the ...
Last week, after hawkish testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, markets penciled in a half-point increase in interest rates following the central bank’s next policy meeting. On Friday, the run on Silicon Valley Bank and subsequent fears of a wider crisis changed many investors’ minds. Some bet that the Fed would forgo further rate hikes entirely this year. The latest inflation ...
For many young people, college can be tough emotionally and socially as well as academically. In today’s environment, though, things are much worse — dangerously so. By just about any measure, the mental health of today’s college students is in free fall. The situation is dire and demands immediate attention. N.C. State University in Raleigh has the unwanted distinction of being the epicenter ...
The hotly debated Section 230 is again under the scope of the Supreme Court as the court recently heard oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google LLC.
It is unusual for a clause in an act of Congress to develop a cult following, but Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act has. The clause explicitly says that the internet should not be treated like print or broadcast media, which means internet platforms do not bear any liability for third-party content.
I’m at the age at which a man is expected to be a curmudgeon, so stand by for a few curmudgeonly complaints, in no particular order.
The word “propaganda” is generally used in a pejorative sense — something bad. But propaganda can be good or bad.
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The headline “Facelift is eyed for a portion of avenue” in Sunday’s paper caught my eye, so I read the story with interest — until I got to page 3 and saw the rendering of the proposed project. Then I recoiled in horror. The pictured building looks like a prison! I can’t imagine anyone wanti…
There’s been a lot of discussion about tax rate in the Lynchburg City Council, but let’s make sure everyone knows exactly what they are talking about.
Once again, the Lynchburg City School Board, that never met a dollar it could not spend, is planning to submit their annual break-the-bank budget request. While the Virginia Department of Education, that knows everything about LCS from the number of students that are economically disadvantag…
Thanks to Chris Faraldi and his soulmates on City Council, the process has begun for Lynchburg voters to change our appointed school board to an elected body. Faraldi plans to go door-to-door to obtain the necessary petition signatures to place a referendum on the November ballot.