Letters for May 14: If we are doing bailouts, give them to older adults who...
Bailouts Re “US to cancel ex-students’ loans for dodgy art school” and “FBI: Older Americans lost over $3.4B in scams” (May 2): These two articles leaped off the page with ironic similarities. In one,...
View ArticleColumn: Comparing the Sweden and U.S. responses to COVID-19
COVID-19 cases and deaths internationally have fallen to their lowest levels in four years. The data now permits a comparison between the controversial laissez faire strategy of Sweden and the more...
View ArticleEditorial: Modernization effort aims to speed ship construction and repair
The modernization efforts underway at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth should give a needed boost to what has become an alarmingly sluggish process of building the warships the Navy needs to...
View ArticleLetters for May 15: Way to go TCC and Virginia Beach for a planetarium...
Fun learning On my regular walk on Tidewater Community College’s campus in Virginia Beach, I had the rare good fortune to meet Professor Leah Flax. She works in TCC’s Science & Mathematics Pathway...
View ArticleColumn: Israel’s challenges abound on its 76th anniversary
On its 76th anniversary, the state of Israel, the Middle East’s only democracy and America’s staunch ally, has been plunged into a national trauma given the unfathomable Oct. 7 massacres by Hamas,...
View ArticleEditorial: On Peace Officers Memorial Day, pay tribute to the fallen for...
Katie Thyne led a life of service. It took her from the U.S. Navy to the police academy in Newport News, where, at age 24, she was immediately popular among her fellow officers. Her death on Jan. 23,...
View ArticleLetters for May 16: If you are going to have kids, be prepared to pay for...
Plan ahead Re “‘My kids need me’” (May 14): The article refers to “child care” like it were some nebulous thing in the sky. Child care is comprised of people who provide child care for an income. They...
View ArticleColumn: For better health care, advocate for yourself
My mother used to tell me that self-preservation is the first law of nature. She taught me that you should always take care of yourself. Her lesson rang true when I ran into a problem with America’s...
View ArticleEditorial: Ambitious vision has the Port of Virginia positioned for success
The Port of Virginia has big plans for the future — and that’s great news for Hampton Roads and the larger commonwealth. Friday’s State of the Port event saw officials outline an ambitious timeline for...
View ArticleLetters for May 17: Hamas must go; Israel and Gaza will be better off
War in Gaza Coverage of Israel’s war with Hamas has been endlessly frustrating, which is not surprising given the one-sided anti-Israel bias exhibited by major newspapers during the past 40 years. This...
View ArticleColumn: The coming attacks on nonprofits
There is a scene in the first “Star Wars” where the heroes find themselves in a garbage compactor. They frantically grab for anything that can keep them from getting crushed as the walls inexorably...
View ArticleEditorial: Virginia has made great strides since Brown, but work remains
Seventy years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education ended segregation in the nation’s public schools, hammering another nail in Jim Crow’s coffin. Though the...
View ArticleLetters for May 18: Violence in Norfolk is everyone’s problem
Violence I have been living in Norfolk all my life and am no stranger to the violence that plagues this city. I’ve been affected with the death of my uncle, Derrick Rountree. Many lives have been lost...
View ArticleColumn: This era’s protesters could stand to ask a few more questions
One of the roles we old folks fall into is to wish we could painlessly and conveniently give young people the useful wisdom life has taught us so they won’t have to learn it the hard way. Such are the...
View ArticleColumn: Don’t shut down debate about Israel and antisemitism
I was a professor for 20 years at New York University, which has campuses around the world. I taught at NYU’s Shanghai; Abu Dhabi, UAE; Accra, Ghana; and Tel Aviv, Israel, campuses. Guess which one...
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