
Wild Virginia hosts Wild and Scenic Film Festival at Visulite Cinema on April 22
Wild Virginia hosts the Wild and Scenic Film Festival On Tour at the Visulite Cinema on Sunday, April 22.

Wild Virginia hosts the Wild and Scenic Film Festival On Tour at the Visulite Cinema on Sunday, April 22.

Flat Top Manor, a primary feature of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park at Milepost 294 on the Blue Ridge Parkway, opens this weekend for the 2018 season with new opportunities for visitors.

By now most of us have read that plastic, that incredibly useful product that all of us use every day, is fast becoming public enemy number one.

Distracted driving tops drivers’ list of growing dangers on America’s roads, according to a new survey from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. The annual Traffic Safety Culture Index shows that 88 percent of drivers believe distracted driving is on the rise.

Here’s what the New York Post has to say about my new book, Curing Exceptionalism: “Exceptional idiocy. David Swanson touts his book, ‘Curing Exceptionalism,’ in a press release where he claims American Exceptionalism is ‘no less harmful than racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry. The purpose of this book is to persuade you of that statement. No thanks.”

Citizens representing Virginia landowners, the faith community, scientists, people of color, water protectors and clean energy advocates today called on Governor Ralph Northam to protect Virginia’s waters by taking immediate action on the proposed Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines.

Average retail gasoline prices in Virginia have risen 7.1 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.45/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 4,081 gas outlets in Virginia.

Tessy Plastics, a premier molder of custom injection molded plastic components, will invest $9.2 million to expand its manufacturing operation to accommodate a new product line in the City of Lynchburg. Virginia successfully competed against New York for the project, which will create 34 new jobs.

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality held the final public hearing on Virginia’s carbon reduction plan today. At the hearing, participants called for the strongest possible standard to cut Virginia’s carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning power plants.

Average retail gasoline prices in Virginia have risen 2.4 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.37/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 4,081 gas outlets in Virginia.
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