There can really be no difference of political opinion about the virtue of dismantling criminal networks that prey upon innocents. In the case…
Republicans aren’t the only ones to lose their bearings. So have many Virginia Democrats. On one issue — school funding — many so-called progr…
Cheers for Emory & Henry, which has become the latest college in our area to launch a food pantry to help keep needy students from going hungry.
I am proud of the work I do, and daily I fight to do what is best for my students. I wish Mr. Sickles and his Democratic colleagues could put …
During a recent General Assembly debate over school funding that pitted the “haves” against the “have-nots,” Del. Mark Sickles, D-Fairfax and …
Of all people, it was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who explained on the Senate floor on Feb. 13 what needs to happen now wit…
It may seem at times that the high hopes for the COVID-19 vaccination rollout have fizzled since December, but step back for a moment and chew…
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On Wednesday, a House of Delegates committee tabled — that’s a polite way of saying “killed” — a proposed constitutional amendment that would …
Nothing these days upsets the Donald Trump-corrupted Republican Party establishment like flickers of principle.
We don’t enjoy speaking ill of the recently deceased. May Rush Limbaugh, who suffered lung cancer, rest in peace. But neither on this or any d…
Questions remain about the origins of the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6. For those reasons, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was right on Monday t…
After the planet Uranus was discovered in 1781, astronomers realized that its orbit could only be explained if there was another, yet unseen, …
President Joe Biden has done something no other president has done: He has elevated his chief science adviser to Cabinet-level rank.
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“How do I love thee?,” wrote the 19th century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “Let me count the ways.”
Shouting matches and expletives creating turmoil at 30,000 feet pose a serious danger to airline crews and passengers. While there have always…
The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was a bulwark against threats from Iran, and the United States under Trump recklessly undermined i…
We need Black History Month. The country is not at a place where it shouldn’t exist. I embrace it and celebrate it as we all should. I don’t t…
Let’s hope Damascus Trail Days and other events we missed out on last year will be able to return for 2021. But we also want to make sure that…
March 13, 2020, will be a day that many of us will remember for a very long time. When the announcement was made that all schools in Virginia …
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Online readers of the Bristol Herald Courier overwhelmingly selected a letter about enhancing visitation rights for grandparents as the best l…
Thus far in Joe Biden’s young presidency, he has issued a blizzard of executive orders and memos. Yet one subject is missing from these variou…
Tonight’s Super Bowl offers a classic matchup: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers against the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs. It also offers us o…
President Donald Trump’s hastily assembled impeachment legal team has submitted written arguments in his defense that are threadbare, amateuri…
Rep. Morgan Griffith has been criticized for voting to overturn the presidential election — deservedly so — but also for opposing the pandemic…
On Aug. 9, 1974, a new president, Gerald Ford, addressed the nation for the first time and said, “Our long national nightmare is over.” He spo…
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, says he plans to introduce a resolution that censures former President Donald Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 i…
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