The commonwealth leads all other states in the distribution of its share of pandemic relief funds.
The city's plan to become a town in Henry County finally had a public hearing that left us wanting more.
Gov. Ralph Northam’s posthumous pardons for seven young Black men in Martinsville who were executed in 1951 after being convicted of raping a …
Thirty percent of those land preservation spending has gone to properties in just five counties — three of which are in central Virginia: Albe…
Virginia's Republican Party wants a court to invalidate Terry McAuliffe’s candidacy.
The census provides a compelling reflection of our population, though perhaps a little mind-bending for those engaged in political work. There…
Every four years Virginians have to put up with a charade — an election for lieutenant governor.
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High school football teams are forced to “pause” their practices.
The census numbers released last week are like a doctor confirming some diagnosis you already knew: Much of Southwest and Southside Virginia a…
Glenn Youngkin, the blankest of blank slates ever to run for Virginia governor, has finally started to fill in some of those blanks on policy.
Americans — at least some of them — are falling for two big lies.
“Most of us hate anything that we don’t understand.”
Some Virginia Democrats are mystified why the early polls show the governor’s race so close — statistically a tie.
People and politicians have been harping on the need for rural broadband for so long that we have to ask: Will we know what to do when we fina…
In 1977, Andrew Miller almost became governor of Virginia.
The sports seasons are all running together now. The baseball and soccer seasons are underway, the basketball and hockey ones are in the champ…
Patrick Henry Community College is channeling Star Trek’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Facing a threat by the cyborg species known as The Borg, Pi…
So we finally have two statewide tickets — Terry McAuliffe for governor for the Democrats and Glenn Youngkin for the Republicans.
Virginia is about to do something you don’t see state government do very often: It’s about to turn away revenue.
We’re now officially into summer, and we already have some catching up to do. So here goes:
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In 2013, in his last months in office, Gov. Bob McDonnell directed the state Department of Education to compile a list of all the school const…
Here are some more takeaways from Tuesday’s primary:
Some takeaways from the Democratic primary that produced a ticket of former Gov. Terry McAuliffe for governor, Del. Hala Ayala for lieutenant …
Virginia Democrats are making a grievous political mistake by acting as if the parole board scandal isn’t happening.
When former U.S. Sen. John Warner passed away last week at age 94, there were many tributes about how Warner represented a bygone era of polit…
Shakespeare gives us one example of a young man who is originally considered a lightweight but grows in office into a serious-minded leader wh…
It’s been a busy week in Virginia politics, which means we have some catching-up to do. Here goes:
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