Letters to the Editor

Maybe the rest of America finally caught on to what Virginia has known for 10 years. Voters handed Democrats a ...

Are Warren County officials really conserving taxpayer dollars? I ask this question because, at recent Warren County Board of Supervisors ...

I think we all understand the need for rules, guidelines, and laws. We also understand that sometimes exceptions are necessary ...

How much damage should a town inflict on a local nonprofit tourist attraction to gain one parking space? That is ...

I served as a legislative assistant to the late Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ).   I assisted the Senator in the ...

Donovan “Mark” Quimby’s response to Rear Admiral John Butler is a collection of misleading claims, inflammatory rhetoric, and glaring double ...

A belief in American politics holds that dissatisfaction with the status quo drives votes against the party in power. That ...

August 13, 2001, a small building collapsed, and I was pinned under it. An Edinburg neighbor called the rescue squad, ...

This veteran is exposing John Butler’s utilizing his Rear Admiral (USN, Ret.) rank, military service, and America’s founding documents in ...

Clean water is not simply a resource. It is the foundation of our health, our culture and our identity. For ...

I often attend Warren County Board of Supervisors meetings. When public comments are allowed, I typically raise concerns about spending ...

I’m not at the top, and I’m not at the bottom either; I’m right there in the middle where most ...

If you’re alarmed about the proliferation of data centers — gargantuan, windowless megastructures that power social media, live-streaming, cloud storage, ...

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s energy plan, released October 1, is a marvel of earnestness and hard work. Anyone plowing through ...

A simple question from a little girl at a movie theater raises a bigger concern about the future of going ...

There is something wonderfully modern about sitting on the couch with a smartphone, opening Facebook and typing a complaint about ...

Technology, like every man-made innovation, has various possibilities. As I began typing these words, for instance, the “copilot” writing app ...

For me, the Festival of Leaves has always been about something much bigger than a festival. It has been about ...

Published in 1977, Will D. Campbell’s memoir Brother to a Dragonfly is as relevant now as it was then. Campbell ...

What happened after the Warren County Board of Supervisors meeting on August 18, 2026, should not be dismissed as just ...

If you enjoy seeing a bald eagle soaring over the James River, hearing a turkey gobble in the spring woods, ...

Well, folks, it’s midterm election season. And if you live in Warren County, voting matters.  Even if you don’t particularly ...

From the Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers of Emergency Medicine of Blue Ridge To our patients, our neighbors, and our ...

Two recent Royal Examiner pieces approached the data center debate from different directions. Kenneth Roko’s “The Data Center Debate Should ...

Data centers have been widely discussed lately, and much of the conversation has focused on what can go wrong. They ...

Let’s talk about AI and data centers. A different approach. AI is an interesting tool (or weapon), depending on your ...

Twenty-five years ago, I was driving to work late, as I often did. I lived in Alexandria then, not yet ...

To the first responders who answered the call that morning in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania, we ...

The residents of Virginia’s 6th Congressional District face difficult times. Rising utility rates, higher housing costs, and grocery bills continue ...

A good many of us can remember when we did not wear our party on our sleeve. We voted for ...