Kudos to Caroline High School. Raspberries to Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
Read Across America Day, celebrated every March 2, reminds us that the best gift anyone can give a child is a love of reading.
Is there any act, no matter how disturbing, that could induce the General Assembly to pass meaningful gun legislation? Apparently not.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin wants to ease Virginians’ financial burden. He said so in his state of the state speech. He’s so dedicated to this idea that he wants to give us $1 billion in additional tax relief.
For better or worse, Northern Virginia is coming our way.
It was an odd juxtaposition: Moments after rattling off a broad list of priorities and goals for the 2023 General Assembly session during his State of the Commonwealth address on Jan. 11, the centerpiece of which is $1 billion worth of tax cuts intended to rev up economic development and sti…
Even as those emotions flow in abundance following Friday’s shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, none seems sufficient. That a 6-year-old boy would bring a firearm to a schoolhouse and use it to harm his teacher — which the police chief said was no accident — defies compre…
Listening to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s State of the Commonwealth speech before the General Assembly Wednesday night, we’re guessing he’s a fan of the 1977 film “Smokey and the Bandit.”
No one who watched Damar Hamlin go down on Monday Night Football last week, and then watched as announcers tried to make sense of the near-fatal tragedy that unfolded, will ever forget that moment. The question that is increasingly being asked in the wake of that episode is, will this be the…
When the General Assembly short session begins today, abortion is going to be one of the most-discussed topics.
We live in an age of advanced scientific knowledge that produces vaccines that can ward off diseases such as measles, rubella, mumps, and polio. We also live in an age when an increasing number of parents want the option of not vaccinating their children against these highly contagious and p…
The 2023 General Assembly session kicks-off on Jan. 11, and lawmakers from this region figure to make some noise in the upcoming session.
Spotsylvania School Board Chairman Kirk Twigg began lowering a veil of secrecy over the school district in 2022, even as he was unleashing chaos.
The debate over violence and guns in Virginia is far from hypothetical. From 2011 to 2021, the state’s murder rate has risen to 6.59 per 100,000 people in 2021 compared with 3.69 in 2011, according to Axios’ analysis of the Virginia State Police’s Crime in Virginia report.
Parents at Thomas Jefferson High School are justifiably upset that students whose performance on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test earned them “Commended” status were not notified in a timely manner about the award this year.
In recent days, we’ve been running down three topics the editorial board will be paying close attention to in 2023. On Thursday and Friday we discussed education and Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Today we focus on …
Thursday was the first of three editorials on topics we’ll be following closely in 2023. We started with education. Today, we focus on …
What are the topics we’ll be keeping an eye on in 2023? Today, Friday, and Sunday, we will outline three issues we’ll pay particular attention to in the New Year. We begin with …
Tax dollars budgeted to imprison Virginians who violate new abortion restrictions in the state.
After polluting the global environment for half a century, including in Virginia, chemical company 3M announced last week that it would stop making per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by the end of 2025.
This morning is about belief. And that truth has never been captured better than it was 125 years ago in the pages of the New York Sun.
The editorial page has undergone significant changes over the past year. Among those has been a focus on civility, and finding a way out of the increasingly uncivil climate we find ourselves in.
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In the world of publishing, few documents are more frequently produced and infrequently read than the dreaded Strategic Plan.
The recent decision by the Central Rappahannock Regional Library system to do away with late fees and fines is a welcome and long-overdue change in policy. It’s also in step with the growing number of public libraries around the country that have done the same.
A report last month by Virginia’s nonpartisan Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, which conducts policy evaluations and oversees state agencies on behalf of the General Assembly, made a close inspection of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 education.
State-level elections in years the governor isn’t on the card are often yawners.
In the pantheon of sports legends, there are a select few names that stand alone: Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, Walter Payton. These players transformed not only their sports, but the American culture.
If you feel safe in your car, thank the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, located just over an hour away from Fredericksburg. Founded in 1959, it conducts and publishes the results of crash tests, and its findings have forced manufacturers to greatly improve cars’ crashworthiness.
On Monday, Richmond removed its last city-owned Confederate statue — that of A.P. Hill. As our sister publication the Richmond Times–Dispatch wrote: “[T]he last of Richmond’s Lost Cause icons has finally been toppled and removed.”
Del. Marcus Simon, D-Fairfax, expects to be playing defense during the upcoming General Assembly session, at least when it comes to the ongoing push by Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Republicans in the state legislature to carry out a culture war crusade in state education.