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Why is Congress protecting untraceable weapons?
- Dr. Lawrence Eppard Director of the Connors Institute, Utterly Moderate host
Progress is being made in combatting sex discrimination in the workforce, but there are concerns gender-affirming care for minors. Learn more on the Utterly Moderate podcast.
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Three cheers for New York’s commitment to serving its voters and especially for Erie County, a leader in providing a healthy supply of places for voters to cast early ballots.
The concept of stochastic terrorism has once again proved depressingly, horribly relevant.
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Some Americans, including New Yorkers, have bought into the canard that once an elected official is seasoned enough to know how to get things done, he should be discarded. Chuck Schumer is proof of the theory’s foolishness, writes The News' Editorial Board.
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While both challengers have interesting ideas and show eagerness to pitch in, Jennifer Mecozzi adds familiarity with district operations to the passion she’s demonstrated since she first became a candidate in 2016. She deserves reelection.
For the second year in a row, Virginia has made early voting easily accessible to many. You should absolutely take advantage of it.
With a history that dates back before the American Revolution, Rocky Mount, the 4,900-population seat of Franklin County, is generally a charming place that, like most all rural communities, is striving to find new ways forward in an economy that’s no longer centered on factory jobs. Though some town residents and even a few town council members have been skeptical of Rocky Mount’s most innovative economic development experiment, the creation of the Harvester Performance Center, that music venue has remained a boon to the region since its opening in 2014. Unfortunately, another distinguishing thing about Rocky Mount, especially when it comes to speculations on the inner workings of its tiny town government, is a proliferation of conspiracy theories.
Micron, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, is a leading producer of memory and data storage chips used in personal computers, smartphones, data centers, cars and other electronic products.
We had not planned to revisit the epic battle over the fate of Mountain Valley Pipeline quite so soon.
The 303-mile long, dreary and aggravating saga of Mountain Valley Pipeline has taken yet another lumbering turn even as construction on the deeply controversial project remains stalled. The turn might or might not push the pipeline toward completion, even as it absolutely compounds MVP’s abysmal PR profile.
The claim that even negative publicity is still worthwhile publicity bounces hard off the wall in the case of former Rocky Mount Police Officer Jacob Fracker and his one-time mentor, former Rocky Mount Police Sgt. Thomas “T.J.” Robertson.
When the Franklin County Board of Supervisors voted in November 2020 not to move the Confederate soldier from in front of the county courthouse, the decision was disappointing to those who wanted the statue placed elsewhere, but hardly shocking.
The chants remain as bone-chilling now as they were when first uttered five years ago: “You will not replace us! Jews will not replace us!”
The Virginia General Assembly won’t meet again for another six months, but when they do, that esteemed body should tackle the practical problems with the “bed of last resort” law.
There should be no room for us vs. them in the relationship between the public and those who take oaths to protect the public.
Despite everything that state leaders, school board members, and parents have done to and said about teachers in recent years, this week these highly skilled professionals returned to their classrooms. We owe each of them our gratitude and respect.
If you’re a person who hopes to see significant steps taken to decelerate global warming, the news has provided a pile-on of setbacks.
Last week, Congressman Bob Good embarrassed his constituents again. This time, the nay-saying Republican was one of only 18 members of the 435-member U.S. House to vote against endorsing Finland and Sweden for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO.
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Buying things takes less time these days — you can have your week’s groceries, a new outfit and a used car headed to your front door in a matter of hours, thanks to technology. But this convenience comes with a price. New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals fewer people are shopping on...
Now that grocery inflation seems to have eased, retailers are clamoring to offer more and better discounts that will get shoppers back to their stores this summer. With an announcement Wednesday, Walgreens joined a growing list of national brands, which also includes Target and Amazon Fresh, that are touting price cuts on an array of...
Beyond overall inflation, which rose 3.7% year over year since September 2023, there are a few more reasons why candy is so expensive right now.
A little-heralded Virginia legislative reform has yielded insights into which of the commonwealth’s communities endure the most far-reaching effects of mass incarceration — a term that serves as shorthand for the United States’ propensity to put people in prison rather than address underlying social issues that set people on the path to a life behind bars. The U.S. imprisons more people than any other nation in the world, eclipsing even China, and when comparing national incarceration rates — the number of incarcerated residents per 100,000 population — the U.S.A. is also No. 1.
"You don’t have to condone the misuse of time off policies to acknowledge that real issues are driving it. Together, those problems begin to make the case for additional staffing," writes The News Editorial Board.
The backlash was sure to come.
Virginia’s public school system was born 152 years ago this month.
Absorbing the coverage that emerged from the aftermath of the May 14 shooting at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store, and now the July 4 mass shooting during a Highland Park, Illinois, parade, one comes away with the impression that so-called red-flag laws — which allow a judge to bar someone ruled a danger to themselves or others from having firearms — should have stopped those shooters from getting their hands on guns, but somehow the statutes fell short.
“For about 2 years I’ve been making photographs along the N&W at night,” wrote O. Winston Link in 1956. “I am not being paid by any one [sic] to shoot these pictures. I am doing it to have a record of Americas [sic] last steam powered RR before the N&W goes to diesel.”
Bill Lee — retired pastor of Loudon Avenue Christian Church, founder of New Horizons Health Care, recipient of a Roanoke Citizen of the Year Award — reflected on the significance of the Fourth of July.
No parent wants to outlive their child. For some, the loss of a child is simply too much to bear.