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As part of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s misguided insistence that Virginia withdraw from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the Air Pollution Control Board has since January accepted input from the public on the proposed action. That comment period concluded last week and the regulatory town hall website now includes more than 6,000 messages from across the commonwealth, the vast majority of ...

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 ...

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Congress decides how much the U.S. borrows; not the president. “An increase in the debt limit would not authorize new federal spending. It would only allow for borrowing to pay for what Congress has already approved,” (“Debt-limit talks…” LNA, 5/17/23”)

As I consider the events of Donald Trump's CNN town hall, may I suggest the most worrisome element of it was not Trump’s responses to Kaitlin Collins' questions, but the audience response to Trump's replies? They cheered even his most egregious responses.

Issues fill the media and politics today that were unimaginable even a few generations ago. After thousands of years of human existence and two centuries of modern indoor plumbing, suddenly we are faced with a crisis over which bathroom to use. The need for two separate arenas of sports for …

The politicians will never get to the root cause of all the gun violence because they just want to disarm the law-abiding citizen. They will get commissions together to discuss possible solutions, regurgitating the same old stuff, and never putting a dent in the problem.

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