
Fifty Plus: Aging parents
We just get our kids through college, we have a wedding or two, we have a few grandchildren, we are in debt, we think it’s finally our time, and then our parents get old.

We just get our kids through college, we have a wedding or two, we have a few grandchildren, we are in debt, we think it’s finally our time, and then our parents get old.

U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner led a bipartisan group introducing legislation to establish an independent National Commission on Security and Technology Challenges.

Longtime University of Virginia English professor Ralph Cohen, who founded the internationally known scholarly journal New Literary History, died Feb. 23 – his 99th birthday – in Charlottesville.

Virginia Farm Bureau Federation is joining the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Corn Growers Association in supporting a new bill that would streamline biotechnology labeling laws.

The Virginia House of Delegates passed HB 30, which will fund the Virginia government through the end of Fiscal Year 2018.

The Hemp Road Trip, a grassroots effort to raise awareness about and lobby on behalf of the benefits of industrial hemp, will be stopping at James Madison University.

Military veterans of the Vietnam War will gather at James Madison University Saturday to hear one of their own speak – and to receive honor for service to their country.

Engineers at Virginia Tech recently tested a wave energy converter inspired by the way squid propel themselves through water.

William C. (Will) Dudley, provost and professor of philosophy at Williams College, will be the next president of Washington and Lee University.

Expanding agricultural trade opportunities is the main focus of the annual Governor’s Conference on Agricultural Trade, which will be held March 7 and 8 at the Hilton Richmond Downtown.
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