Warmer water doesn't hold oxygen as well as colder water, creating a direct threat to marine life.
When policymakers work to close the digital divide, access often is the first factor on their minds.
The lady at the Madison County School Board meeting Tuesday night made an important point. In so many words, she raised the question of what schools should teach children.
While Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s brief time in office has elicited sharply divided opinions about his policies, his proposal in April to address the plight of children in foster care deserves broad support across the commonwealth. The trauma endured by these young people is substantial. Public of…
The most troubling problem with the Biden administration’s new Disinformation Governance Board is how little information the government has released about it. The Department of Homeland Security announced the board in late April, yet little has been forthcoming about what the board is suppos…
THE LOUDOUN County School Board was a convenient whipping boy for Glenn Youngkin when he ran for governor last year. The board was under fire for mismanaging two sexual assaults that occurred on school property and over controversies centering on race and gender.
It is time for warring parties at Montpelier to bury the hatchet. But not in each other.
When Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief science adviser, told PBS’s “NewsHour” last month that he believed the country is “out of the pandemic phase,” it served as a rare buoy in a relentless sea of sickness and despair. Reference points have been few and far between in this pand…
They’re loud. They’re furious. They want their schools back. They want books banned and teachers fired and school board members ousted. They claim to be parents fighting on behalf of America’s conservatives, as if they represent the oppressed majority on issues like critical race theory and …
Much of the world reacted in horror at Russian atrocities in the town of Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, one month ago. After the Russian army retreated, Ukrainians found the bodies of hundreds of civilians, and the full extent of the terror became known. Now, through the use of novel investigative…
In July 2020, Virginia workers were reeling from the economic aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows more than 342,000 people were unemployed at that time — up from roughly 113,000 a year earlier.
VIRGINIA Secretary of Education Aimee Guidera is finally talking. Mostly about “excellence in education.”
As sure as the sun comes up every morning, solar energy is going to be with us.
The public square has been consumed this week with speculation about the future of abortion in the United States. That’s understandable, following the publication of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade. For the moment, however, we’re more concerned …
America faces a serious economic and national security risk when it comes to the development and manufacturing of semiconductor chips that are integral to daily life in the modern world. A strong bipartisan majority of Congress understands this and has rightly acted to boost the semiconducto…
Elections have consequences, and the continuing failure of the state government to agree upon a 2022-24 budget is a completely predictable consequence of putting the House of Delegates and the governorship under Republican control while keeping Democrats in charge of the Senate.
After appropriating trillions of dollars in COVID-19 relief, Congress is angling to pass yet another multibillion-dollar aid package, this one directed at restaurants and other small businesses that suffered during the pandemic. While we sympathize with all business operators who struggled t…
Public transportation gets a prominent place on the growing list of things that have changed — maybe forever — because of the COVID pandemic. It will take foresight and creative thinking to make the best of the changes as we head into what we hope is the post-pandemic era. Before COVID, the …
U.S. gross domestic product shrank 1.4% in the first quarter at the same time inflation continued to soar. For older Americans, that combination conjures memories of 1970s stagflation, a nightmarish combination of double-digit inflation, double-digit interest rates, soaring gasoline prices a…
Just across the river from downtown Lynchburg sits a sprawling piece of land aching for new life. The approximately 350-acre site was home to the Central Virginia Training Center for decades, providing thousands of jobs to the area over the years.
Words have power. When words are muted, that power is defused. This is why libraries are being dragged into the nation’s culture wars.
The pandemic is almost over — we think. Not as a medical fact. COVID-19 will be around forever, just like the cold and the flu, but it no longer dominates our daily lives and politics. The Democrats’ mild reaction to last week's court decision against mask mandates are among the many signs t…
Albemarle Circuit Court Judge Claude Worrell II wanted a list of specific student injuries that occurred because the Albemarle County Public Schools teach about institutional racism in the United States.
When COVID-19 shuttered school buildings across the country, one of the core questions government and education leaders had to grapple with was: How will children continue to get fed?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is clear about the dangers of underage drinking.