Voting is a right, not a privilege. And casting a ballot — that most fundamental exercise of American citizenship — should be as accessible as…
In May 1998, John Hager gave the commencement address at Southern Virginia Community College’s Christanna Campus. Toward the end of his speech…
If we can consider long-distance classes for a semester or more, there is little reason for education to ever be snowed out again.
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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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Early voting began Friday in Virginia, and there needed to be more outlets.
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In “Lord of the Rings,” there’s a scene where the grim-faced King Theoden of Rohan looks out over the army of orcs gathered outside his gates …
IS IT TOO much to ask that appointed state officials follow the law like everybody else? If you’re a member of the Virginia Parole Board, appa…
Voting is a right, not a privilege. And casting a ballot — that most fundamental exercise of American citizenship — should be as accessible as…
In May 1998, John Hager gave the commencement address at Southern Virginia Community College’s Christanna Campus. Toward the end of his speech…
A few decades ago — it feels like only a few years — I sat down at the kitchen table of my family home, and in longhand that is much more legi…
A number of Northern California wildfires sent a thick, sometimes orange-glowing haze over the state Wednesday that left the Bay Area in an ee…
Trump supporters have been sending me short messages asking, “How is your 401(k) doing?”
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