One of the unfortunate effects of Trump’s presidency was the distraction from our biggest challenge, rapid climate change, but the tide has tu…
Virginia is poised to become the second state in the nation to pass a broad consumer privacy bill. Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act has…
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“Tub-thumping: the expression of opinions in a loud or dramatic way.”
On a crisp November morning recently, I walked the Cross-Valley trail. The trail winds across the Roanoke Valley from the Mill Mountain star i…
It’s MLK Day but most of the news is about a Second Civil War, a reality TV version where grown men join armed gangs in the rural hood and cal…
America, America! This is your old eighth-grade teacher, and I can’t stand it anymore! I’m sick and tired of hearing the language you use.
I am 30 years old. My husband and I both work full-time, and we have four kids ages six and under. Our health insurance is through Virginia Medicaid.
February is Heart Month, in case you missed the enormous illuminated red heart atop Carilion Clinic’s parking garage at Riverside Circle. This…
The sound of race cars mute. The smell of rubber and high-octane fuel faint. That has been the case for the last year at South Boston Speedway.
The Virginia Health Department and pharmacy chains have been making elderly Virginians play whack-a-mole with COVID-19.
Pitts: Black history is America's history. It will not be erased -- no matter how hard America tries
Let’s try an experiment.
Death is the one human experience that connects everyone, regardless of color, creed, class or bank account. The inequity comes only in its ma…
I am a teacher in Southwest Virginia, and I say to you one hundredfold: Thank you! Your editorial on Feb. 19 (“House Democrats turn back on ru…
I read Mr. Griffith’s “Capital Commentary.” As with his previous comments, he has made it very clear that he will continue to approach his dut…
Some might understandably consider rather impossible that an old white guy like me, from New York, has the best contemporary record for fighti…
Roanoke’s Plowshare Peace and Justice Center conducted its 180th Silent Peace Vigil on the bleak midwinter day of Jan. 16, which happened to c…
Opinion: I have never met a kind person I disliked, even if I disagreed with their politics or we had no interests in common.
Episode 8: Also discussed is whether boycotts are an effective tactic to get companies to change their policies and why we should consider inc…
Nurses have been at the forefront of caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic in Virginia, working long, arduous hours, day after day …
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As the widening of a 5-mile Roanoke Valley stretch of Interstate 81 slowly proceeds, traffic accident deaths continue to mount. In recent week…
With COVID-19 and economic recovery at the top of the policy agenda for the Biden Administration and the new Congress, it may take awhile unti…
Uh-oh. Joe Biden is talking unity again.
On Feb. 3, the Virginia General Assembly passed a bill (HB2113) to allow some individuals to clear criminal convictions. While automatic seali…
For the past year, the governor and General Assembly have advanced what they promote as “criminal justice reform.”
Virginia will have the nation’s first major test for voters to show what kinds of Republicans can survive and thrive in the post-Donald Trump …
To the objective observer Virginia seems to be moving very quickly with Cannabis policy reform. We would like to present four Virginian’s stor…
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