An online petition surfaced this summer calling for Lynchburg to change its name, arguing the name is reminiscent of the verb for the death se…
Virginia boasts some of the nation’s most beautiful and historic rivers — the James, the Appomattox, the Clinch and the Staunton among the man…
As COVID-19 keeps spreading across Virginia, local governments keep scrambling to make up for lost revenue. State leaders should be recognized…
Three months from Tuesday, Virginians face a choice: Do they want to end the state’s broken redistricting system, or do they want to keep the …
One year ago, Gov. Ralph Northam made a significant investment in Virginia’s 2020 census efforts.
If a State Board of Elections decision to approve late-filing candidates wasn’t already political — and we don’t think it was — the decision s…
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Virginia’s approximate 1.3 million public school students are preparing to start a new year of learning in less than two months, but it won’t …
While suspects accused of violent felonies should be held in the local jail until trial, those arrested for lesser offenses who are not consid…
Since the start of 2020, more than 1 million unemployment claims have been filed by Virginians. According to the Virginia Employment Commissio…
Four months into the COVID-19 pandemic, students and families across Virginia continue to adapt to fall learning realities.
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QUESTION: After bitterly complaining that legislative and congressional districts
Let us be clear: Saturday night’s violence was a planned riot. Before the July 25 event, flyers promoting mayhem under the guise of “Richmond …
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As statues were being torn down amid violent protests in the state capital and other cities in the commonwealth last month in the wake of Geor…
Self-isolated and bored Virginians with cabin fever have been flocking to the outdoors—and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.
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WHEN the coronavirus pandemic first became an American problem back in late winter, many sports fans grimaced at the loss of March Madness and…
There are no statues to him and apparently nothing named after him.
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We applauded Monday’s news that Dan Snyder, owner of Washington, D.C.’s pro football team, was dropping the offensive team name and logo amid …
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Virginia’s Department of Education suffered a reprimand when a federal report criticized the way it oversees schools’ special education progra…
Today — or tonight, rather — is a good time to look away from our daily concerns of politics and pandemics and cast our eyes skyward.
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