A Virginia man drove the width of the United States, kidnapped a 15-year-old girl, shot her mother and grandparents dead in cold blood, torched their home...
Yes, it can happen here. From time-to-time, for some inexplicable reason, entire societies allow themselves to fall under the iron fist spell of subjugation from a...
With all due respect, Del. Tim Anderson, have you lost your mind? You’re a first-term Republican member of the House of Delegates running for a second....
Actually, Virginia has several data center problems. One seems like a good problem to have, at least if you are a locality looking to attract business....
Consider all the ways police departments around Virginia are working to fill vacancies in their ranks: Offering signing bonuses. Boosting salaries. Attending military, community, and...
Christmas has arrived in a heaving rush and I’m plotting a means to get my Christmas on proper before it vanishes in a few weeks. This...
My father grew up on a farm in San Jose that my grandfather had to put in the names of his two oldest sons, because...
Sometimes it just hurts to watch the constant yammering about the economy, particularly on those dry-as-dust cable networks like CNBC and Bloomberg, with anchors and...
Babe Ruth’s home run record was sure to fall sooner or later. Roger Maris broke Ruth’s 60-homer single-season record with his 61st home run of the...
Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin and California Democrats could hardly be further apart politically; however, their diagnoses of what is wrong with America’s housing market sound...
Virginia’s income tax brackets have always shocked me, especially because of their glaring lack of fairness. As a newspaper columnist in South Hampton Roads, I earned...
It’s time to play Jeopardy again and test the parameters of your brain housing group. Category Today: Geography and History What is the county seat of...
Who shows up to cast a ballot and who is allowed to mark a ballot and have it counted will determine which candidates take office and...
1080. That’s what I tallied on the SATs more than 40 years ago while attending my college prep high school in Washington, D.C. Surprisingly, I did...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – This is a city accustomed to big-league politics. The legacy of former Arkansas Gov.-turned-President Bill Clinton is ubiquitous: libraries, schools, and streets...
Washington Gas has been emailing its Virginia customers this month to offer them rebates if they buy new gas appliances, including home heating equipment (up to...
When Candace Blue became part of the club no parent wants to join, she faced a stark choice: Totally shut down following the shooting death of...
The Eastern Shore and the Shenandoah Valley have few things in common, but both regions of the state share a deep desire to turn old...
Gov. Glenn Youngkin has adopted a new tack in trying to stem thousands of teacher vacancies across Virginia. He wants to hire more educators for the...
Governor Glenn Youngkin issued a press release on October 3 presenting what he says is his energy plan. Accompanying the press release were 26 pages labeled...
Distraction is defined as a thing that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else. Most people in the U.S. are distracted from international events...
Here we go again. In the first U.S. Supreme Court case this fall, Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, the justices and lawyers wrestled with the...
What do you have the right to know about what your state government is doing? In Virginia, not a lot. Virginia, like the federal government...
At the northern terminus of Sky Line Drive in the Shenandoah Valley sits the town of Front Royal, Virginia; a town of around 15,000 situated in...
Dear Govs. Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida, I have watched with keen interest your kind efforts to provide free transportation for new...
Are we watching the last days of Vladimir Putin’s rule in Russia? The Russian President is cornered like never before. The Russian people are in the...
We always knew it would come to this. That it would start … out there. Out on the Left Coast where all the loonies live: California,...
Politicians will play politics. And there’s nothing wrong with that, generally. The problem comes when the malignant notion takes hold that an overwhelmingly clean, fair process...
How old is too old? Too old for what? Society has many strange expectations of how we should act and what we should be doing as...
A so-called “doomsday glacier” in Antarctica that could raise sea levels several feet is disintegrating faster than previously predicted, according to a new study. And an...