If you think Republicans are hidebound, backward-looking and resistant to change, we are here today to tell you that you’re wrong.
Pete Giesen, who was from Radford, was the last of the “mountain-valley Republicans” who broke the stranglehold on power of segregationist Dem…
In 1982, the generals who were running Argentina thought it would be a good idea to invade the Falkland Islands. It was not. British Prime Min…
Last week we proposed that Virginia use at least $3 billion of the $3.8 billion it’s getting as part of the latest federal stimulus spending b…
There are a lot of things that are going right. Here are five things that are going wrong.
Virginia is about to get a windfall of $3.8 billion, the state’s share of the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that Congress recently passed and Pr…
We have questions. We don’t have answers, but we do have questions. Four of them, in fact.
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We spend a lot of ink (and digital electrons) on all the wrongs that a suburban-dominated state government has inflicted on rural Virginia.
Our reading list for March includes Senate Bill 1406, the 264-page bill that the General Assembly just passed that will legalize marijuana in …
There are many ways to date the COVID-19 pandemic of 2019-21 (at least we hope 2021 will be the end date).
Virginia is now a gubernatorial signature away from legalizing marijuana and the mere act of legalization isn’t even the most controversial or…
The 2021 General Assembly session was short but consequential, perhaps one of the most consequential in Virginia’s long history.
And so it’s come to this: House Democrats care so little about the poorest localities in the state that they won’t even vote on two measures i…
It’s fashionable — and correct — these days to point out how many Republicans have lost touch with their party’s heritage. Some on the right l…
We choose our words carefully, so when we use a strong one, we mean it. Today we shall use a strong one. Perhaps several strong ones.
After the planet Uranus was discovered in 1781, astronomers realized that its orbit could only be explained if there was another, yet unseen, …
The chairman of one of the General Assembly’s budget committee raised eyebrows — and in some quarters, full-scale alarm — when she suggested l…
We’ve devoted a lot of ink in print — and electrons online — over the years to the plight of Virginia’s rural schools.
Did the dam just break?
In 1990, the Minnesota Twins finished in dead last in their division. The next year they won the World Series, becoming the first baseball tea…
On the morning of March 2, 1876, Secretary of War William Belknap appeared without warning at the White House, frantically insisting he needed…
Virginia Democrats are feeling pretty darned good about themselves right now.
Here’s something you won’t see us say very often: Virginia should be more like Maryland.
Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, recently advanced an interesting proposal.
A little more than a half-century ago, conservative Democrats — back then there were such things — wrote a loophole into the state constitutio…
Sometimes government appears to move maddeningly slow. Right now, though, the machinery of Virginia’s new redistricting process is whirring ri…
Virginia is on track to do something governments don’t usually do, especially ones run by Democrats — turn away revenue.
