Dear Editor: A shout out to VDOT for swiftly and thoroughly repairing the only road in and out of our Bentonville community after Sunday’s freak storm...
Before Donald Trump was sworn in to the presidency, I wrote that the media needed to find a better way to report on his tweets. To...
Friends, About two years ago through a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Volkswagen Corporation, the automobile manufacturer agreed to “invest” $2.9...
It was announced last week by Pew Research that employment at newspapers across the nation had, in the last decade, declined by almost 50 percent. With...
Today the kids and I took a day trip to Washington, D.C. It was the first time we have visited the Holocaust Museum and there I...
The following blog by B. J. Cooper, a U.S. government colleague of our reporter, Malcolm Barr Sr., prompts us at the Royal Examiner to pay tribute...
I am as guilty as anyone by turning a blind eye at what has been/is going on with my community and local government. Life is busy...
Kate Spade. Anthony Bourdain. Two suicides this week of people who seemingly “had it all”. Money. Fame. Success. But something was broken. Something within. And now...
It is 50 years beyond 1968, and today on April 4, 2018 it is EXACTLY 50 years beyond the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. While...
FRONT ROYAL – While retreating into a defensive posture on matters of ethics and all, the local Economic Development Authority (EDA) greeted the 2018 spring on a...
Ed Justo is a candidate for US Representative for the 6th District of Virginia. The words expressed herein are the words of Ed Justo for his...
To the Editor: Henry Ford said, “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress and working together is success.” It seems that whenever there is...
We have reported that at times the common-ground dialogue that began in April across party lines – and Chester Street – between anti-and pro-Trump supporters gathered...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, in the Daily News-Record, Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) reflected on last week’s March for Life and highlighted several victories for the pro-life...
Sometimes words remain appropriate, not only for the era in which they are spoken, but for multiple eras, and perhaps for the length of humanity’s struggle...
January 4, 2018 David Silek, 8500 Leesburg Pike, Suite 400, Vienna, VA 22182 RE: Letter of December 27, 2017 Dear Mr. Silek, I am writing to...
RE: Our County’s opioid crisis Dear Mr. Stanley and the Members of the Board of Supervisors: About a month and a half ago, possibly two months...
Let me start by offering the disclaimer that I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I am neither conservative, nor liberal. I am who I...
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people at the Royal Examiner that work so hard to keep the citizens of Warren...
Since the Royal Examiner’s editorial decision to publish the photograph—but not name—of a minor homicide victim and his brother, the newspaper has been bombarded with hate-mail,...
Shortly before the unexpected announcement he won’t seek re-election two days after the Democrat’s sweeping electoral victories in Virginia, I read U.S. Sixth District Delegate Robert...
This is letter I sent to the Mayor, Hollis Tharpe, and the town council. My intention is that this is an opinion or letter to the...
In this election season, voters are confronted by a specter from the past. One political party is spreading discord by advertising that plays on fears and...
As Chairman of the Warren County Republican Committee, it may not come as a surprise that I am supporting Jill Vogel for Lt. Governor on Tuesday,...
Everybody seems to be aggravated about something all the time these days. I don’t remember it being this bad when I was growing up or even...
I was not at the recent meeting for the proposed Town Inspection Code but wanted to put my “two cents” into the discussion. I have been...
Eighty-five years ago in October, Babe Ruth pointed to center field and called his shot. Maybe. It was, after all, decades before today when every fan...
Like many others in Warren and neighboring counties, I’m avidly watching Ken Burns’ “Vietnam” series on the local public television channels. Avidly because I was a...
Yesterday, I returned to my car in the park & ride lot in Front Royal to find a flyer inviting me to join the Klu Klux...
College students around the world that play Overwatch competitively might one day be able to quit school to go pro just like their peers on the...