The families of three firefighters were forever changed on the night of October 11, 2018 when a tractor-trailer crashed into the back of a Hanover County...
Last week, the Stephens City Town Council appeared to take a page from the GOP playbook when they decided to confiscate powers from the newly elected...
Wonderful? Marvelous? Glorious? What words could adequately describe the experience of yet another Christmas? Yes, Christmas, the celebration of His birth. Whose birth? God’s birth! God...
Seeing the words, “I make beer disappear” on a man’s shirt, I asked him if he worked miracles since he was able to make beer disappear,...
To the Editor: I have been fortunate to count so many veterans as friends and family. As a veteran myself, I am familiar with the many...
Two years ago this week, Democrats were stunned when they lost in strongholds they had taken for granted. We recall that, after candidate Clinton had mocked...
We know who he is now, we know he will never become presidential. We know who his base is, and we know he will do whatever...
Do partisan party endorsements help or hurt in non-partisan local elections? An old Chinese saying states” may you live in interesting times”. One situation that I...
I am not running on a partisan platform, even though I am a Republican (nor could I anyway due to my employment with U.S. Govt). I...
I completely understand that this is news but to continue to run these kids thru the mud is a little much. To run Mr. Smith’s picture...
This past week the Front Royal Town Council took a large step forward and adopted the Virginia Maintenance Code. This will help hold bad landlords accountable...
Last night, I attended a meeting for the Façade Improvement Grant. As you may know, I was on the committee during implementation, inception, as a county...
As you may recall, much earlier this year or late last year, I don’t remember which as it’s been so long now, I wrote to each...
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...