The Board of Trustees of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library System is scheduled to meet on June 27 to determine whether the names of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison should be removed from the organization.
The other day a good friend asked me: “Is our country in bad shape today?” I reflected on this serious question and responded: “The country isn’t the same self-confident place as it was between 1945 and 2000.” Most people my age (I am in my nineties) remember the Great Depression of the 1930…
Few Virginians have used the Freedom of Information laws as often as Tazewell County native Laura Mollo.
When people hear about the climate crisis, their instinctive reaction is to say: “I don’t have time to worry about that. I have to think about the basics: jobs, the price of food, the cost of living and my family’s health.” And yet, the climate crisis is interconnected with these daily essen…
As we all complain about gasoline prices, America would be smart to consider the complexity of our transportation system. We have few options because we’ve historically been, well, stupid.
The tsunami of gun violence in America didn’t happen overnight, and it won’t be corrected overnight. Bold actions such as repealing the Second Amendment are not within reach. That would require a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress, followed by ratification by three-fourths of the…
What the U.S. has learned from the war in Ukraine is a hard reality check.
What the U.S. has learned from the war in Ukraine is a hard reality check.
The fire of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision is still wildly aflame in our hearts. Due to being consistently ignored, we have strayed from a peaceful and patient approach. The words “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” are loyally embraced by the Black community as the p…
In July of 2020, my siblings watched a CNN special about racism. It was tailored for children and for that reason, my parents sat them down and had them watch the Sesame Street characters talk about the deaths and resultant riots prevalent at that time. For my nine-year-old twin brother and …
As I look toward college, I see injustice reflected in the game of admissions. It’s easy to look at Operation Varsity Blues and think that it is a reflection of a few cheating families looking to beat the system using their wealth and willingness to play unfairly. In reality, the whole proce…
It’s been nearly 50 years since the last living American soldier returned home from Vietnam. What I knew of the conflict as a youngster—I had a heavily tattooed uncle who’d been a Navy Seabee in Vietnam and had seen Platoon—was embarrassingly basic but went something like this: Vietnam was a…
‘You have to follow the money, you have to ask questions, and you have to connect the dots.” That sounds like someone committed to uncovering the dark money poisoning American politics but it isn’t. It’s Asra Nomani, recently fired Vice President of Parents Defending Education, a Virginia-ba…
It was 9:30 AM on a Monday morning. I was in the middle of my weekly meeting with my boss when he began describing what he was seeing out his office window. On instinct he shut his door and locked it. When we concluded our call, I heard a television on and headed towards the sound. The press…
To understand who and what the winners of Tuesday’s Seventh and Second District Republican primaries will represent in Congress, we looked at their policy positions and the people who endorsed them.
‘Be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920.”
Gretchen Brown, who helps lead the Charlottesville chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense, said she has been busier in the last four weeks than she has in any of the four years she has volunteered with the gun safety reform group.
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Virginia state Sen. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, was nearly a casualty of a public health crisis whose roots in American racism are doubted by Virginia’s health commissioner.
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The Waynesboro City leadership has started the “Whack-A-Mole” game again about noise ordinances. Every few years the same issues come up; the target gets moved; and there is never a resolution that is enforced.
Here are three presumptions that need to be changed: