Melinda Burrell: Your brain on elections
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We’ll all still be in the same country when the election is over. Our democracy needs calm citizens working together – and talking at Thanksgiving.
Search Results for voting
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It’s not the economy, stupid: Because if it was, the midterms would be trending Democrat
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The 2022 midterms are supposedly going to turn on the economy. If that was actually the case, the midterms would be trending Democrat.
Rob Okun: Vote for your children’s future, vote because it’s patriotic
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Since midterm elections rarely have the pizazz of a presidential contest, a lot of eligible citizens don’t bother to vote in them.
Women’s Basketball: Louisville, Virginia Tech 1-2 in preseason ACC hoops poll
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Louisville is the 2022-2023 ACC Women’s Basketball preseason favorite, according to the league’s Blue Ribbon Panel comprised of the ACC’s 15 head coaches and a select voting panel.
ACC Basketball: UNC is preseason favorite, with Duke second, UVA third, Virginia Tech seventh
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North Carolina was on the NCAA Tournament bubble last March. A run to the national-title game has the Tar Heels the AP preseason #1, and the prohibitive favorite in the ACC.
The Sixth District needs a fighter in Congress: We need Jennifer Lewis
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Based on the early voting numbers, around 10 percent of the people who will choose between Ben Cline and Jennifer Lewis in the Sixth District have already done so.
Our votes in Waynesboro: Lee, Hostetter for City Council, Maneval for School Board
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Early voting is already well under way in Waynesboro, so if you’re one of the 981 people that has already cast your lot in the 2022 city elections as of this writing, here’s to hoping you got it right.
Virginia Museum of History & Culture to offer free admission days in November
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With Election Day right around the corner, the Virginia Museum of History & Culture encourages visitors to take advantage of the upcoming free admission days in November to see the museum’s traveling exhibition American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith.
Democracy is an act of moral imagination
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Shortly before he died, Congressmember and human rights activist John Lewis wrote a farewell to his fellow citizens, declaring: “Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself.”
ClineWatch: Jan. 6 again
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Just after the November 2020 election– a clear and convincing victory for Joe Biden over Donald Trump— our Sixth District Republican Congressman Ben Cline began enabling lies about massive fraud and illegal voting.
