Opinion

In 1984, Democrats needed a candidate to challenge the very popular Republican incumbent President Ronald Reagan. Democratic frontrunner Walter Mondale, ...

I rarely get personal with my articles, but this week’s subject resonates with me. One of the hardest days of ...

This past year, we’ve heard about libraries being battlegrounds. In Virginia alone, books have been removed from the shelves of ...

A bombshell was dropped last month when Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Hur released his findings on President Joe ...

For many, the Gilded Age (1877-1900) is the most boring part of political history. All the presidents were bearded white ...

I serve as the treasurer of the Front Royal-Warren County EDA. I’ve received a number of calls and questions about ...

An amendment meant to keep ex-Confederates from holding office after the Civil War is once again coming into play as ...

Following up on the Royal Examiner article on the resurgence of teaching cursive handwriting in schools, it’s a good thing ...

Mr. Gough’s zeal is admirable, but his grasp of the facts is not. I wish that more people cared about ...

In response to this published letter to the editor, the writer is misinformed and very much off base.  Had they ...

The Archdiocese of Arlington is proposing a new facility in Front Royal despite 37 archdioceses in America declaring bankruptcy to ...

“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6) ...

When I was in college back in the 1990s, I like so many other students began getting my political commentary ...

Thank you for printing the “Fires Blaze Across 7,500 Acres in Various Virginia Regions” article from the Virginia Mercury news ...

The School Board Member Alliance of Virginia (SBMA) is a dedicated organization for Virginia’s school board members, aiming to enhance ...

One exciting aspect of the Shenandoah Rail Trail project is the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to preserve and protect an intact historic ...

Imagine seeing virtually everyone in town getting out of their cars, houses, and businesses on the same day and at ...

I am often reminded of a challenge by my late father to always “thank those whose profession requires dirt under ...

Small-town America is going extinct. Revitalization can no longer just be a buzzword; it must be a slew of actions ...

Do we want to encourage visionary local entrepreneurs to invest in Front Royal, or do we want to drive them ...

I suppose one could argue that serving on a school board (my district) as a homeschooler could have ethical implications ...

There are many ways to say that history repeats itself.  George Santayana’s words may be the best well-known: “Those who ...

I often daydream.  As I attempt to rest and reset my mind and heart, I fantasize at what many chuckle ...

1854 began the destruction of the Second American Party System. When Democrats fought to accept Kansas as a slave state, ...

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom ...

To (Jesus) who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood, and has made us to ...

3 ways to turn holidays into your favorite time of year (and 3 survival tactics if they’re not) When was ...

While soldiers of Ukraine lie in the mud, in the blood and the ice-cold trenches of Ukraine, fighting for the ...

Besides the many commandments in the Torah instructing us to love our fellow man, there is also an explicit commandment ...

By the 1850s America was in the middle of the Second American Party System of Democrats and Whigs. The two ...