Tackling the Debate on Inclusion and Censorship in Youth Literature. In an increasingly divided society, the arena of books and literature has found itself at the...
While our local press, including the Royal Examiner, is covering “like a blanket,” some would say, the juvenile library book controversy, today, as I am writing...
In a recent (July 26 publication) opinion piece by Warren County resident Richard Jamieson, the author employed a neat rhetorical maneuver that I believe is worthy...
Ms. Dixie Dillon Lane has made a reasonable point about legal constraints and compromises with regard to a path forward concerning the Samuels Library, Inc. (SLI)...
I am writing to you as a concerned citizen of our county, stirred not only by the recent controversy over book banning but also by the...
(Writer’s Note: I originally shared this text as a statement to the Warren County Board of Supervisors during a public comment session last night (July 18)....
The number of Virginians changing the sex listed on their birth certificate more than doubled between 2020 and 2022 after the passage of a law streamlining...
I recently came across Richard Hoover’s response to Paul Miller’s Letter to the Editor regarding book selection at Samuels Public Library. Mr. Hoover expressed concerns about...
I write in response to letters by Mr. Richard Hoover (May 27th) and Mr. Paul Miller (May 18th) concerning the proposal to remove LGBTQ-themed books from...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate approved legislation Tuesday that would enshrine protections for same-sex and interracial marriages, codifying many of the rights that would disappear if the U.S....
Thirteen public school students gathered on the Skyline High School campus Tuesday morning to protest Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s initiative in forwarding what they termed an...
WASHINGTON – America needs more blood. Blood supplies, which typically run at about a five-day stock on hospital shelves, have been reduced to less than a...
Attorney General Mark R. Herring has successfully defended the Department of Education’s “Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools” in court...
On July 2, 2021, Attorney General Mark R. Herring joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in support of the constitutionality...
RICHMOND (March 31, 2021) – Attorney General Mark R. Herring has successfully defeated a challenge to the historic Virginia Values Act in the Eastern District of...
Virginia lawmakers passed a bill that will ban the use of a person’s perceived or actual sexual orientation or gender identity as a defense in court...
The General Assembly advanced a bill this week that lawmakers say will modernize Virginia’s current HIV laws. The amended measure has passed both chambers, but lawmakers...
~ Virginia is first Southern state to provide sweeping anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people ~ RICHMOND—Governor Ralph Northam today (April 11, 2020) announced he has signed the...