
Ken Plum: A push in the right direction
In my first years in the General Assembly there was a debate over several sessions about adding guidance counselors in the elementary schools.

In my first years in the General Assembly there was a debate over several sessions about adding guidance counselors in the elementary schools.

In spring, when 17-year-old John R. Lewis High School student Kadija Ismail, of Springfield, learned she’d been accepted into the Virginia Tech Pathways for Future Engineers program, she wasn’t sure she fit the bill as a future engineer.

Every year, The Shenandoah National Park Trust donates money to help Shenandoah National Park with a variety of projects. This year the Trust plans to support the park with up to $1 million in donations for new and ongoing projects.

Northern Virginia State Del. Lee Carter formally announced his candidacy for the 2021 Democratic nomination for governor on Friday.

After eight months of repeatedly failed negotiations, Congress has approved a bipartisan relief package that will protect millions of Americans from some of the worst economic consequences of the pandemic.

What if, instead of being born into the Roman police state, Jesus had been born at this moment in time? What kind of reception would Jesus and his family be given?

The City of Charlottesville, the Albemarle County Service Authority and the Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority partnered in their sixth annual Imagine a Day without Water campaign to educate and inspire the community about the value and importance of water.

There are tens of thousands of children in America who have not seen a book since March. Might I repeat that? They literally have not touched or seen a book since mid-March.

A recent CDC survey reported that 16 percent of Virginia high-schoolers have seriously considered suicide in the past 12 months.

In the decades since the launch of the global environmental movement after the first Earth Day, more than 3 billion young people have graduated from high school having learned little or nothing about climate change.
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