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Opinion: Commentary: Changing Face of Virginia

The results of the 2020 U.S. Census remind us that the world around us changes in more ways than we might consciously detect or understand.

Opinion: Commentary: It Is Hot Outside

The extended weather forecast for this week indicates that temperatures will be in the mid- to upper-90s.

Opinion: Commentary: COVID Relief

The General Assembly is meeting this week and possibly a few days next week to appropriate the federal COVID-Relief fund made available through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).

Opinion: Commentary: Ending Election Fraud

My earliest experience in government and politics came when I was a senior in high school.

Opinion: Commentary: Awash in Cash?

With the news reports of the cash coming to state and local governments from the federal government to provide relief from the effects of the COVID pandemic and the announcement that Virginia will have a sizable cash balance at the end of this fiscal year, one could conclude that government is awash in cash!

Opinion: Commentary: Virginia’s Largest Industry

Virginia’s largest private industry is agriculture with an economic impact of $70 billion annually and 334,000 jobs.

Opinion: Commentary: Rewriting the Constitution of Virginia

The celebration of the fourth of July this week reminds us that not only did the colonies in America break free from the Mother Country in 1776, but they embarked on a course of independence that included written constitutions.

Opinion: Commentary: Schools As a Political Football

When I graduated in January 1965 from the newly named Old Dominion College (now University) that had previously been the Norfolk Extension of William and Mary, I found the job market bleak for persons with history and political science majors.

Opinion: Commentary: Gun Violence Epidemic

Three people were shot to death in Herndon last week—a mother and her two children, in an incident the police termed “horrific.”

Opinion: Commentary: The Lost Cause and the Big Lie

Events of the last several years have brought to the nation’s attention the corrosiveness to our society of the Lost Cause movement to justify the South’s position on the Civil War.

Opinion: Commentary: Don’t Texas Virginia

This column is being written before the results of Tuesday’s Democratic primary elections are known.

Opinion: Commentary: Principle Above Partisanship

Virginia lost two of its finest citizens last week: former United States Senator John Warner who died at age 94 and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates Dick Hobson who died at 89 years old.

Opinion: Commentary: Keep History from Repeating Itself

So traumatizing were the colonists’ experiences with King George as a strong executive that the Declaration of Independence is filled with grievances against him, and the writers of the first state constitution in Virginia limited the governor’s term to one year with a maximum of three terms.

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Opinion: Commentary: Changing Face of Virginia

Opinion: Commentary: It Is Hot Outside

Opinion: Commentary: COVID Relief

Opinion: Commentary: Ending Election Fraud

Opinion: Commentary: Awash in Cash?

Opinion: Commentary: Virginia’s Largest Industry

Opinion: Commentary: Rewriting the Constitution of Virginia

Opinion: Commentary: Schools As a Political Football

Opinion: Commentary: Gun Violence Epidemic

Opinion: Commentary: The Lost Cause and the Big Lie

Opinion: Commentary: Don’t Texas Virginia

Opinion: Commentary: Principle Above Partisanship

Opinion: Commentary: Keep History from Repeating Itself

Opinion: Commentary: Relief Is on the Way!

Opinion: Commentary: Unemployment in a Time of Crisis

Opinion: Commentary: Facial Recognition as a Legislative Issue

Opinion: Commentary: Return to Responsible Leadership

Opinion: Commentary: Epidemic Surge in Gun Violence

Opinion: Commentary: Understanding the Law About Weed

Opinion: Commentary: A Civic Duty

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