Robert C. Koehler: Return of ‘kids for cash’ and a look within
More than 15 years after the “kids for cash” scandal shocked the nation, it’s back, stirring not just public incredulity but, for some, soul-slicing memories of hell on Earth.
More than 15 years after the “kids for cash” scandal shocked the nation, it’s back, stirring not just public incredulity but, for some, soul-slicing memories of hell on Earth.
The Blue Ridge Parkway has been designated as a National Historic Landmark, one of 19 new sites named this week.
An Amherst County Circuit Court judge has approved a joint agreement between Sweet Briar College and Attorney General Jason Miyares that allows the tiny all-women’s school to bar trans women.
The U.S. Senate passed Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan’s H.R. 7385 to rename the Petersburg Post Office for John Mercer Langston.
Mary Baldwin University students are interning for New Directions through the College for Women to assist clients.
The Virginia DWR and Devils Backbone Brewing Company announce a three-year sponsorship to restore the James River WMA.

In 1994, Virginia Tech professor of English Nikki Giovanni spoke at the annual banquet of the Waynesboro branch of the NAACP.
The Virginia Department of Health has hired an EMS and fire professional to lead the Virginia Office of Emergency Medical Services.
Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan and Congressman Paul D. Tonko announced their introduction of the MENTOR Act.
Make America Great Again is about returning America to the lily white 1950s. It’s odd to have nostalgia for polio, which killed 3,000 American kids in an outbreak in 1952, the year the polio vaccine was introduced, but, MAGA’s gonna MAGA.
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