This past month, Virginia leaders set clear expectations for an ambitious expansion of COVID-19 contact tracing efforts.
The Roanoke Times
After weeks of disruption due to the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Census Bureau entered June with a sense of renewal.
On Tuesday, Gov. Ralph Northam announced he was introducing legislation to make June 19 a state holiday. The date, colloquially called Junetee…
Denver Riggleman will be a one-term congressman.
Gov. Ralph Northam’s plan to take down the Robert E. Lee statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue has run into a thorny and unexpected problem. Th…
NATIONWIDE protests sparked by the violent death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer quickly descended from First A…
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In 2017, Virginia had some interesting choices for their next governor. Democrats could have nominated the left-wing insurgent Tom Perriello. …
WITH health officials, the media and the public focused almost exclusively on the coronavirus pandemic, it’s easy to forget that there’s anoth…
It would be helpful, of course, if all Americans knew their history better than they do. It would be especially helpful if our elected leaders…
Tradition holds that sometime around 1953, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was asked what was most likely to change history or knock g…
The philosophical question on whether to take down Confederate monuments, now faces a practical one. What do you do with all these statues?
Later this week, one of our local congressmen might be defeated for re-election, and it won’t even be in a real election.
The Roanoke Times
In the spring of 1861, Abraham Lincoln addressed a nation that was so bitterly divided it was, quite literally, breaking apart.
The Democratic convention of 1924 was an ugly affair from the beginning and it would eventually get uglier. Democrats arrived in New York out …
Gov. Ralph Northam began his news briefing Tuesday with something unusual, even extraordinary, for a politician.
Many local water requirements are adopted with an eye toward reducing pollution — not only in rivers such as the James and the Rivanna, but al…
IS THERE anything in our lives that hasn’t been infected by COVID-19?
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On May 17, central Michigan residents saw heavy rain in their weather forecast. Within 48 hours, the precipitation created historic levels of panic.
IT’S BAD enough losing your job without having to do battle with the state unemployment agency to get your much-needed jobless benefits. But m…
What? You didn't think we'd write about the murder hornets? Come on, how can we not write about the murder hornets? After all, let's look at o…
In late March, Virginia became one of the first states to close K-12 classrooms for the remainder of the school year.
In rushing to release parole-eligible inmates, Virginia let violent ex-offenders back on the streets and did so without always notifying prose…
THERE is no movement afoot to add President George W. Bush’s likeness to Mount Rushmore. Most presidential rankings put him somewhere in the b…
Last week, State Health Commissioner Norman Oliver balked at revealing exactly where virus cases are occurring in Virginia nursing homes and s…
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