It is time for voters to demand absolute transparency and use their ballots to reject candidates who prioritize fossil fuel payouts over our planet’s future.
- RODNEY HOLCOMBE and BRITTANY SERRANO
After years of legislative starts, stops and delays, it is worth considering: What are the consequences of holding up a legal cannabis market in Virginia?
- JORGEN VIK
Next time you consider your portfolio, keep your eyes on the most likely long-term outcome. It could make a world of difference to those you love.
- SHAWN DUBRAVAC
Phone bans may feel like a victory for exhausted parents, but the data shows they barely budge learning.
- MICHAEL POWERS
Virginia’s explosive economic growth now hinges on whether we have the vision and urgency to build the modern electric grid needed to power the next generation of jobs, technology and opportunity.
- GLENN YOUNGKIN
This November Virginians will be asked to vote on a constitutional amendment. But the ballot summary does not detail what the amendment will enshrine.
- MARELEN A. CONDON
Recently, I was taken to task for suggesting that alien plants perform the same functions as our native plants. But plants function the same the world over.
The FDA should police deception, unsafe production and unsupported claims. It should also recognize the GLP-1 gray market has revealed weaknesses in the current system.
A lot of people think they can only give away $19,000 per year without paying taxes. The estate exclusion amount is actually $15 million.
Data centers are the easy way out where massive costs don’t appear on the fiscal ledger. But this is a delusion, and it’s a costly one for Virginians.
Work at the Botanical Garden of the Piedmont is restricting space for visitors, so organizers are launching a "Garden Anywhere" roadshow.
Virginia’s rushed return to RGGI on July 1 threatens to burden families and businesses with higher electricity costs.
Virginia stands at the brink of a mounting fiscal crisis, and the only responsible path forward is to treat data centers as indispensable economic engines.
Virginia’s SOL tests, long maligned as stressful or simplistic, are in fact the state’s most powerful engine for educational equity.
- TODD TRUITT
Virginia’s SOL tests, long maligned as stressful or simplistic, are in fact the state’s most powerful engine for educational equity.
- JEFF BENNETT
Amazon’s arrival reshaped Northern Virginia in ways promised and unpromised, unleashing soaring rents, deepening inequality and near‑daily immigration enforcement.
- KEVIN A. SABET
Abigail Spanberger’s noble stand against Big Weed is to be praised. Let’s hope she continues on this track and recognizes that Virginia can do without this generation’s Big Tobacco.
- JORGEN VIK
Don’t be upset with the market going higher; it is not a verdict on the morals or ethics of our political landscape
- VALERY SCHNEIDER
The Blue Ridge Health District has just completed a five-year road map designed to strengthen services, support staff members and expand health opportunities across the district.
- SAMANTHA KOON JONES
For decades, male readers have been retreating to the fringes of genre fiction and niche nonfiction, if not abandoning it all together. Enter “The Rest of Our Lives” by Ben Markovits.
- CHRISTOPHER K. PEACE
Our democracy requires a better kind of civic character, one that insists on institutions that teach people how to live and work with others whose beliefs, backgrounds and convictions differ from their own.
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
"I can see green so that must be good" is a gross over simplification of how the environment functions and ignores the complexity required to maintain healthy environments.
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Thank you to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1827 for their wonderful Memorial Day program at Ting Pavillion in Charlottesville on Monday.
- ANNIE WARMAN
Veterans carry invisible wounds that last a lifetime. It is our duty to remember their sacrifices and keep the flame of memory burning for those who never came home.
- LAURA PACKARD
Virginians are being crushed by sky‑high prescription drug prices, and Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s veto a chance to deliver Medicare‑level savings.
- ANDY JACKSON
North Carolina and Virginia could be the ones to break the cycle of gerrymandering and redistricting with a bipartisan interstate compact.