Column: Graduates of Hampton Roads are a maritime academy’s dream
More than 400 years ago, Jamestown was founded, chosen for its deep waters and defensible position — an ideal seaport. Today, our region thrives as a maritime hub, home to commercial, private and...
View ArticleColumn: As federal funding for crime victims slows, Virginia must act
If you or your loved one were a victim of a crime, you’d want to know that there were resources in place to support you and help you seek justice and healing. Yet, federal funding for victim services...
View ArticleColumn: American competitiveness hinges on research and deveoplment investment
On a seemingly ordinary autumn day 67 years ago, Americans received a shock that continues to reverberate today. The Soviet launch of an aluminum sphere about the size of a beach ball and weighing 184...
View ArticleEditorial: Trump administration’s response to D.C. air crash is cause for alarm
Most Americans take for granted the safety of air travel as an average of 2.9 million people shuttle from destination to destination aboard 45,000 flights each day. Accidents are very rare thanks to...
View ArticleLetters for Feb. 3: HHS secretary is a serious job that requires someone with...
Serious job The U.S. Health and Human Services secretary is in charge of our nation’s health care. That person manages Medicaid and Medicare; oversees the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
View ArticleColumn: Trump’s firings are baiting the Supreme Court
President Donald Trump’s firing of 18 inspectors general explicitly violates a law passed by Congress to protect these anti-corruption watchdogs from removal by a corrupt president. Believe it or not,...
View ArticleColumn: Abandoning our Afghans allies hurts US credibility
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have said they want to bring back the “warrior” culture to the U.S. Armed Forces. A key principle of that warrior ethos is to leave no one...
View ArticleLetters for Feb. 4: Hampton Roads event planners should consider seniors for...
Music choices Re “Va. Beach ends support for Something in the Water” (A1, Jan. 29): As a senior citizen and retired U.S. Navy man, I would like to suggest something other than what I feel should be...
View ArticleColumn: For Tocqueville, oligarchy threatens civil society and solidarity
President Joe Biden in his farewell speech warned of the threat of oligarchy to democracy and freedom. Most would be surprised by the connection between the threat of oligarchy that the president...
View ArticleEditorial: Eliminating Confederate tributes is an overdue reckoning for Virginia
A bipartisan, noteworthily multiracial group in the General Assembly has renewed an effort to strip tax-exempt status from organizations glorifying the Confederacy. Gov. Glenn Youngkin blocked a...
View ArticleLetters for Feb. 5: DEI programs help employers see the ‘brilliance’ behind...
Dignity and respect My son is 9 years old. He completed the famed 3,601-piece Artemis Rocket Lego set on his own. He can crush me in one-on-one basketball. He has read more books about spacecraft and...
View ArticleColumn: Higher education in prisons would pay dividends for Virginia
My father attended segregated schools in Williamsburg in the 1950s and ’60s and did not finish high school. Education has always been a cornerstone of opportunity in America, though access to it has...
View ArticleEditorial: Trump, Musk efforts to close USAID will diminish America’s global...
Home to more than a dozen military installations and approximately 80,000 active-duty service members, Hampton Roads is a center of what’s commonly called “hard” American power. When the nation’s...
View ArticleLetters for Feb. 6: Farmers can adopt solar to help maintain their property,...
Solar and farming Re “Solar growth asks too much of Virginia’s rural communities” (Other Views, Jan. 26): A recent opinion piece suggests that solar energy expansion harms Virginia’s agricultural...
View ArticleColumn: Virginia’s earned sentence credit program is working
Last month I repeatedly worked all night to clear snow for Henrico County, keeping businesses and crucial services functioning. I’d gone straight there from my other job cleaning the county’s offices,...
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