
Wim Laven: Can we finally start dealing with gun violence?
It was an ordinary Valentine’s Day four years ago when my class was interrupted by incoming news of an active shooter in a Florida high school.

It was an ordinary Valentine’s Day four years ago when my class was interrupted by incoming news of an active shooter in a Florida high school.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin said last month that his violent crime task force is not a “one size fits all approach to combating crime in the Commonwealth.” Except that, that’s precisely what it is.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin joined Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun and Virginia Tech President Tim Sands Monday to announce a public-private partnership uniting industry, government, and academia to drive talent development and increased labor force participation in Virginia.

Jennifer Lewis has worked in mental health for nearly 20 years. She’s never had a client become a mass shooter.

The world watches in astonishment as Americans kill each other with guns at a rate that is 25 times greater than in any other developed country!

The U.S. lags as a distant third among electric vehicle (EV) sales and production. According to Bloomberg, China claims a whopping 46 percent of global EV sales.

How can anyone sleep at night? My first nightmare about environmental crisis occurred in 1990. I was eight years old. In it, acid rain poured from the sky, scalding the skin of humans and stripping holes in the leaves of trees.

The U.S. government is waging psychological warfare on the American people.

Anne Spencer was born in 1882. A poet and civil rights activist, she was part of what would come to be called the Negro Renaissance in the 1920s in Lynchburg.

The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the next week.
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