Coming this September, the Botanical Garden of the Piedmont will be hosting its Botanical Art Festival. New to botanical art? Let me help.
- MATT MORAN
We need to lower the temperature when we talk about AI. The doom and gloom are paralyzing Virginia's small businesses that could prosper.
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Mimosa’s pretty flowers and nice fragrance don’t justify the harm it does.
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Journalists and politicians claim Virginia's "ban" on "assault weapons" would end civilian access to the AR-15 category. This is a demonstrable half-truth.
- CHRISTOPHER HOWARD
We should be celebrating the 61st anniversary of Medicaid and Medicare. Beacuse of Trump, we're bracing for their collapse.
- DONALD J. GLAZER
Virginia’s new 340B Program Work Group is a chance to restore accountability, transparency and patient-focused reform to a federal program that has failed us.
- JORGEN VIK
It t takes a lot of hubris or ignorance, or both, to suggest one knows how to predict when the market will turn south next time.
Make no mistake about it, the destruction of Albemarle County's mimosa trees is literally an environmental crime against nature.
Madison County residents exposed to asbestos when its risks were unknown bear the burden of reconstructing their own exposure histories because of poor recordkeeping.
This legislative session in Virginia delivered major victories providing localities with tools to increase their supplies of affordable housing.
Whatever the final outcome of the Iran conflict, waiving the Jones Act was a mistake that shouldn't be repeated.
If you are intrigued by the idea of owning stock in an AI company, consider not investing more than you can afford to lose.
We can’t change our history, but we can try to understand it and learn from it.
Virginia's lesson for other states is straightforward: be practical, be ambitious, build more, lower costs, create jobs and protect progress.
- TERRY McAULIFFE
Virginia's lesson for other states is straightforward: be practical, be ambitious, build more, lower costs, create jobs and protect progress.
- JORGEN VIK
Going with the crowd, cruising down the river, feels good. But it may not be your best investment move.
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Because of the Supreme Court, the only qualification to work for the federal government will be a subscription to Trump's version of the 2020 election.
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
On one point we can agree: “Current environmental conditions simply do not allow for environmental propaganda that is not based in fact.”
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Moments of solitude, silence and stillness are essential for creativity, mental well-being and spiritual progress. Perhaps it is a blessing we have forgotten.
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Is Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones permanently unavailable to Virginians?
- MARLENE A. CONDON
Every yard should contain a mix of native and “invasive” plants to help our wildlife to survive.
- JORGEN VIK
If anyone tells you what’s going to happen in the future, they’re either trying to convince you to buy something or they just don’t know what they don’t know.
- BONNIE ZARE and JESSICA LONG
Leaving MAGA does not mean loving your country any less; it means choosing to help build a nation that turns change into opportunity rather than fear.
- JOHN McGUIRE
Washington, D.C., is no longer the city of headlines and horror stories. It is safe again, clean again and worthy again of the nation it represents.
- CHRIS GAVALER
Despite pledges to end the politicization of federal law enforcement, the Trump administration has advanced the president’s personal and political grievances.
- SIMON DAVIDSON
250 years ago, the United States severed its bonds with Great Britain. But it didn't forsake everything. At Maggie's in Charlottesville, the Sunday roast lives on.