American lawmakers are considering making daylight saving time year-around. This would have a serious impact on our bodies, our minds and our well-beings.
- AMANDA LYNCH
Virginia must confront the legacy of segregated swim access and strengthen swim camp safety standards to prevent future drownings.
- MARGARET M. SEILER
Last Friday, I read that the statue of my great-grandfather, Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire, was removed from Richmond's Capitol Square. Good.
- NANCY L. DEUTSCH, BETHANY A. TEACHMAN and STEFANIE SEQUEIRA
Virginia’s $353 million share of the Meta settlement offers a once-in-a-generation chance to strengthen youth mental health.
- MATTHEW P. CAVEDON
For one moment, the power of the commonwealth rests in the hands of ordinary people. Virginian jurors deserve to know how much their verdict counts.
- CHRIS GAVALER
Gay marriage, abortion and voting rights for the formerly incarcerated are on the ballot in Virginia this November.
- GLEB TSIPURSKY
Virginia employers must treat AI like an apprenticeship tool, not a replacement for training.
Whether Virginia remains a blue state depends on whether Virginians remember that limited government and personal responsibility once made it a great place to live.
At the 2026 Back to School Bash at Fashion Square, Albemarle County proved what’s possible when a community comes together in support of students and families.
The detention and deportation of people who live and work among us betrays our civic responsibility and wounds our neighborly conscience.
I am walking temporarily with a cane because of a knee issue. It has been an unpleasant eye-opener.
The Albemarle County School Board needs to understand something fundamental.
Helping your child buy their home is perfectly reasonable. But there's more than one way to do it.
Spending on care for children with autism is growing fast. So too are reports of waste, fraud and abuse within that system of care.
- DEBBIE WITCHEY
Spending on care for children with autism is growing fast. So too are reports of waste, fraud and abuse within that system of care.
- MICHAEL PAUL WILLIAMS
It's hard to argue that VSU dodged a bullet when five people were wounded, one critically, by gunfire earlier this month on its Ettrick campus.
- NICK HUTCHINS
The Appalachian Mountains are a magical place. Dolly Parton always knew that. We can't forget that.
- BILL PIKE
It doesn't matter if you are leading a school or a church; people want to know your vision. Where are you taking them?
- JANELLE TAYLOR-JOHNSON and BETH VANN-TURNBULL
For too many families in Virginia, the return to school is overshadowed by a persistent crisis: housing instability and homelessness.
- HAMSINI PERI
When students feel that a single test score can define their academic career, education becomes a source of stress and not an opportunity for growth.
- SAMANTHA KOON JONES
The American Girl brand turns 40 this year, and so too do many of millennials who grew up loving the dolls and their stories. So just why does the brand endure?
- JACK SALMON
Between 2018 and 2023, 22,000 people left Virginia, taking with them some $7 billion in income, along with their consumption, talent and future tax revenue.
- JEFF BENNETT
This past weekend at Virginia State was just the latest reminder of how far, and how little, we've come since Virginia Tech.
- K. WARD CUMMINGS
Anti-Black racism is fueled not only by fear and resentment, but by a deeper anxiety over status, identity and the enduring power of Black Americans.
- CHARLIE JACKSON
Virginia's hemp crackdown threatens longtime businesses and the people who rely on their products.
- MARK J. ROZELL
Virginia's off-year elections respect the federalism principle that states and localities often have distinctive issues that need to be debated outside the national discourse.