
Mel Gurtov: Water, water, no longer everywhere
“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is only halfway descriptive of the planet’s current water situation.

“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is only halfway descriptive of the planet’s current water situation.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has chosen additional key administration appointments including two individuals with ties to the Harrisonburg area – Valley Renovators, Inc. VP J.M. Snell II and James Madison University professor Marshall Pattie.

The conservative activist Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a quicker end to human civilization, in the form of curbs on federal power to reduce carbon emissions from power plants.

This is the Second Amendment in full-on action: Republicans running for office gleefully pretending to defend the country from whomever. Only a good guy with a gun can stop a politician with a big mouth. A literal civil war is fomenting, or so it seems, and Jan. 6 was just a practice run.

Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU has again been named among the nation’s top hospitals for kids by U.S. News & World Report.

How can we in good conscience celebrate Father’s Day in the middle of an epidemic of gun violence almost exclusively perpetuated by men? We can’t.

Three hundred students representing 55 schools competed at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture in Richmond for the chance to move on to the National History Day national contest.

Federal partners of the regional Chesapeake Bay Program unveiled an initial round of actions that each plan to take to counter climate change impacts in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Celebrating a program that helps Virginia Tech students facing food insecurity, university leaders and donors held a ceremonial opening of the facility that now houses The Market of Virginia Tech.

Seventeen Bridgewater College art majors will exhibit their works in a senior art thesis show, “17°,” on display in Bridgewater College’s Beverly Perdue Art Gallery and various locations on campus.
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