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In May 1998, John Hager gave the commencement address at Southern Virginia Community College’s Christanna Campus. Toward the end of his speech…
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If a State Board of Elections decision to approve late-filing candidates wasn’t already political — and we don’t think it was — the decision s…
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Virginia’s approximate 1.3 million public school students are preparing to start a new year of learning in less than two months, but it won’t …
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This Pittsylvania County supervisor has gone from spreading dangerous views to outrageous and demeaning terms.
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This entire process with vaccine rollout reminds some of us of a certain vintage that there was an urgent rollout of a vaccine earlier in our …
Opinion: I have never met a kind person I disliked, even if I disagreed with their politics or we had no interests in common.
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