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Once again, America is mourning the senseless deaths of innocents — this time the result of a mass killing in a city just west of Milwaukee. A…
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We’ve heard, “we are doing all we can do” about the landfill issue repeatedly from the city of Bristol, Virginia. It has become the city’s new slogan.
In September, about 200 students gathered on the steps of Burruss Hall in Blacksburg to once again make demands that Virginia Tech more proact…
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Let’s take a look at how two coaches fared during their first six years leading Virginia Tech’s football team.
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Forget the mandate, the public should demand that every health care worker who is able be vaccinated. Period. Our health care workers shouldn’…
Del. Chris Hurst made news in a way most politicians don’t want to make news as polling precincts opened on a drizzly Election Day morning.
Attorney General-elect Jason Miyares has pledged a “deep dive” into the parole board misconduct.
COVID-19 is a plague on humanity, but it hasn’t been that kind to the planet either.
The $1.2 trillion bill is not all that it appears to be. In fact, it is both less and more than meets the eye.
The book burners are back. It’s time for the book-burning locusts to stop screeching and return their narrow thought processes and hypocritica…
Biden could mimic the disastrous program of Gerald Ford, whose solution after an Arab oil embargo was a national cheerleading campaign called …
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It’s time to end “springing forward” and “falling back” twice a year, which has been blamed for everything from seasonal depression to robberi…
Passing any kind of election bill as the midterms approach won’t be easy, but the issue is too important to shelve. Biden and the Democrats sh…
If you ask the nation’s 19 million veterans what they really want this Veterans Day, they would probably trade the free doughnut and other gru…
The Joint Legislative Audit and Review, or JLARC, report clearly spelled out the VEC was not great before the pandemic, has performed absolute…
Perhaps never in Virginia politics has a gubernatorial candidate campaigned with less regard for rural people and signaled so clearly an inten…
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