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.
We have a safe bet: After the year we’ve just had, a lot more people will be eating black-eyed peas than ever before.
There’s a meme going around Facebook that goes like this: In the future, there will be historians whose specialty isn’t simply the year 2020, …
We have questions. Three of them, in fact.
Consider this a stocking stuffer, although some might consider these lumps of coal:
It takes seven to 10 minutes to boil an egg, depending on how firm you want the yolk to be.
We have one election in the rear view mirror which means another is just ahead of us. The 2021 governor’s race is now taking shape. Democrats …
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In 2016, Virginians voted on a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would have enshrined the long-standing ban on compulsory unio…
Here’s another way to view the recent presidential election: The haves outvoted the have-nots.
Should we all be wearing masks right now?
Thanksgiving dinners are fraught with peril. The doctor told Uncle Ed to lay off the salt. Aunt Sally is watching her sugar. And is it true th…
We come before you today, on the eve of a great national holiday, with a matter of deep concern. As we look around us, we a society that has l…
If you’ve come here today for politics, you’ll get some, just maybe not the way you expected.
The results of the presidential race makes one thing quite clear: The United States is more polarized today than we were before.
The history that we were taught in school was, at best, incomplete – something we’re being forced to reckon with now in many painful ways.
Y’all listen up now, you hear? We’ve got something important to tell y’all.
We are officially in pumpkin season. Pumpkins for jack o’lanterns. Pumpkins for pies. Pumpkins for, yes, pumpkin spice latte.
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Is this year’s presidential election unique? In many ways, yes, for reasons that would fill many a page. In other ways, though, we can find ec…
Six Virginia localities are voting in November (or now, if you’re an early voter) on whether to take down their Confederate statues.
Benjamin Franklin once observed that the only certain things in life are death and taxes. Here’s one more: Next year, prompted by the census r…
There is one topic we write about more than any other — the economy in rural Virginia and in rural America at large.
Today, for insight into the ongoing controversy over all things Confederate, we turn to two of our favorite philosophers — Thomas Jefferson an…
Government moves slowly. Here’s how slowly: For the problem we’re about to discuss, some 26 generations will have come and gone between the ti…
If you came here today for answers, you’re in the wrong place. Today, we have questions.
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