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...
Historians have an unfortunate reputation for delivering bad news. That indictment was recently bolstered by a group of the nation’s leading scholars who warned President Joe...
“Misdirection, what the eyes see, and the ears hear – the mind believes” – John Travolta from the movie “Swordfish”, quoting Harry Houdini School is in...
As summer recedes and we head into fall, a new school year begins. Students, faculty and staff head back into schools and classrooms with hope and...
On August 22, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner (D) made a trip to Twin Valley High School in Whitewood, Virginia, where just weeks prior, the community was...
I received a bit of a surprise via email late last week. An RFP for a downtown master plan was addressed specifically to me. This...
Last week, a court in Virginia Beach was asked to find two books depicting sexual activity obscene and ban their sale at a Barnes & Noble...
My wife and I are beef cattle farmers in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Two years ago, we enrolled in Virginia’s Agricultural Best Management Practice...
They’re easy to sponsor and hold. They allow residents, especially in crime-ridden communities around the commonwealth, to feel encouraged. They take a handful of tools of...
If you are determined to stay awake until you know which political party will control the U.S. House of Representatives next year, you will be sleepless...
I concluded Part 1 of this rebuttal of Warren County School Board member Melanie Salins’ public posts questioning the truthfulness and political perspective of The Royal...
It has been brought to my attention that in Facebook posts early in the week of August 14th to her social media “friends” in response to...
This observer finds the Warren County School Board debate over continued membership in the Virginia School Boards Association (VSBA) disturbingly ironic and troubling in its timing....
In July of 1776, the American Congress approved the Declaration of the Independence of the 13 United States of America. One of the key figures behind...
Before I begin my commentary, I have to clear up some confusion. I say, in my commentary that no one famous has stayed in the Afton...
Some of us are ancient enough to remember the Watergate burglary that brought down the President of the United States 50 years ago, June 17, 1972....