Letters for Nov. 20: Virginia needs stronger regulation of campaign financing
Minding the store Re “Virginia lawmakers should use next session to bolster transparency” (Our Views, Nov. 6): The editorial is right, but in addition to ensuring access to public information through...
View ArticleColumn: Catering to narrow interests misses broader concerns
The 2024 election has underscored a critical turning point, highlighting deep-seated political and social tensions across the nation. While controversy is inevitable in any election, this cycle seems...
View ArticleEditorial: Incumbent wins in local races can help strengthen regional...
Candidates for local offices across Hampton Roads found themselves in a difficult spot leading up to this month’s election. The presidential campaign was so omnipotent, so all-consuming, so commanding...
View ArticleLetters for Nov. 21: Hold President-elect Donald Trump to his promises
Stay active Although the election should be peacefully conceded, we do not have to concede our principles. Let’s see what President-elect Donald Trump’s team accomplishes during the next four years. As...
View ArticleColumn: Virginia should codify data practices for license plate readers
Currently, the majority of violent and property crime in the United States goes unsolved. While crime rates are constantly fluctuating, clearance rates remain stubbornly suboptimal. There’s a growing...
View ArticleEditorial: As Thanksgiving approaches, don’t forget those who are without
This holiday season, let’s remember our neighbors who don’t spend time debating which delicious items to include in their festive menus — those who, instead, are worrying about how they are going to...
View ArticleLetters for Nov. 22: Bill before Congress can improve foster care transparency
Hidden foster care There is a silent epidemic in this country affecting an untold number of children and families. Children are being removed from their families by child protective agencies and placed...
View ArticleColumn: Money wasted on culturally divisive issues could be spent helping kids
Education policy received little to no attention during much of the presidential campaign. But, in the final phase, Donald Trump was asked during a “Fox & Friends” interview how he would fix...
View ArticleEditorial: Holiday events throughout Hampton Roads bring our community together
It’s not exactly an earth-shaking revelation that Americans spend less time with one another than ever before. Most don’t know their neighbors and few attend the sort of civic events that help bridge...
View ArticleLetters for Nov. 23: Physicians, not nurses, will solve the health care crisis
No substitute Re “Nurse practitioners can help alleviate Virginia’s health care crisis” (Other Views, Nov. 13): Yes, the nation is facing a primary care provider shortage. Increasing the number of...
View ArticleColumn: As climate disasters multiply, here’s how to pay for them
These days it’s hard to escape news stories discussing how climate change is contributing to extreme weather disasters. Aid agencies are increasingly worried about the widespread damage. A growing...
View ArticleColumn: Bird flu is about to crash flu season, and it could get ugly
It’s been nearly eight months since avian flu was first detected in U.S. dairy herds, and cases in both cows and humans continue to pile up. That slow burn of infections through our nation’s livestock,...
View ArticleEditorial: Judge correctly rules Youngkin acted unlawfully by ordering RGGI exit
“Unlawful, and thereby null and void.” That was the ruling this week by C. Randall Lowe, a judge in the 27th Circuit Court in southwest Virginia, in a case challenging Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s attempt to...
View ArticleLetters for Nov. 24: Chesapeake officials should restore curbside recycling...
Recycling For more than two years, Chesapeake Recycles lobbied Chesapeake City Council to reinstate curbside recycling using a fraction of the $160 million surplus logged last year. More than 13,000...
View ArticleColumn: Storytelling is saving female veterans’ lives — including my own
I took my first creative writing class while I was stationed at Fort Belvoir, an Army installation in Virginia. I had just come home, partially blind, from a deployment to Afghanistan. I had been...
View ArticleColumn: Stop ignoring the mental health of young men
When 14-year-old Colt Gray first made headlines as the suspect in the September shooting at Appalachee High School in Georgia, I counted him as another young psychopath that this country now seems to...
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