This week, the Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center has played host in welcoming leadership from all 23 of Virginia’s Community Colleges, our…
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We like poverty, or to put it another way, we like it better than paying the price for reducing it.
In a widely reported 2017 survey, 7% of adult Americans agreed with the statement that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. That is “udder” n…
Editor’s note: Each week we’re running a commentary from a different governor whose state is part of the Appalachian Regional Commission. Thos…
For more than a decade, Virginia has been wrestling with the issue of outdated and ineffective school facilities without finding a solution.
As the calendar flips toward the fall and parents begin to think about our kids going back to school, some for the first time in 18 months, th…
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Glenn Youngkin, the blankest of blank slates ever to run for Virginia governor, has finally started to fill in some of those blanks on policy.
We’re about to enter a Virginia election season and there’s one thing that’s certain: We’ll hear Republicans accuse Democrats of being liberal…
Republicans these days like to criticize Democrats for being socialists, although real socialists think Democrats are far too corporate-friend…
Last year marked the centennial of women getting the right to vote, but this year marks another centennial — the first year in which women cou…
“Most of us hate anything that we don’t understand.”
Americans — at least some of them — are falling for two big lies.
This week, the Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center has played host in welcoming leadership from all 23 of Virginia’s Community Colleges, our…
Numbers don't lie
We like poverty, or to put it another way, we like it better than paying the price for reducing it.
In a widely reported 2017 survey, 7% of adult Americans agreed with the statement that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. That is “udder” n…
Hosts Alison Dagnes and Lawrence Eppard are joined by Kathleen Romig, a senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, t…
Editor’s note: Each week we’re running a commentary from a different governor whose state is part of the Appalachian Regional Commission. Thos…
For more than a decade, Virginia has been wrestling with the issue of outdated and ineffective school facilities without finding a solution.
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I am writing in regards to the letter from Mark Wiley of Radford on July 16 (“Cyclists can breathe a little easier”) regarding the bicycle law…
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