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Your Turn — Be strong in the Lord, Virginia
We never know when tragedy will touch our communities. One week after the senseless murder of three University…
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Mike Wilson: The christening of ‘The Lucky 7’
When the Briery Creek Wildlife Management Area, featuring hundreds of acres of flooded timber for bass fishing and…
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Your Turn — Let’s give thanks for our ambassador teachers
Topping my “thankful” list in our community this holiday season are Kerensa Smith, Raymond Tubojan and all of…
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Your turn — The election is over. Now what?
The 2022 election is over and as the dust is settling, Republicans have taken a majority in the…
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Your Turn — Keep those heads up, my fellow Republicans
There’s no question, the midterm elections did not go the way we thought they would. Many close races…
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Your turn — What’s the plan?
Last year, the Virginia Community College System approved a strategic plan for the 23 community colleges in the…
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Publisher’s Notebook — Bucking the trend
Our communities are what we make of them — they are a direct reflection of where we put…
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Your turn — Virginia report card not up to state standards
The National Assessment of Educational Progress for 2022 is in, and for the Commonwealth, it is an unmitigated…
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Your turn — A time to honor our veterans
This Friday is the day that has been set aside to honor our veterans. It is a noble…
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Your Turn — Paying tribute to Gunther, Havlat and the 11th hour
The 11th hour has become synonymous with Veterans Day, originally called Armistice Day, in recognition of the document…
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Your turn — Let’s talk about the CDC and COVID-19 vaccines
Late last week an advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention voted unanimously to…
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Your Turn — It’s time we put COVID-19 in our rear view mirror
Earlier this week, an advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted 15-0 to add…
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Your Turn — Blind mice
Most everyone understands that the big media outlets choose what stories they consider most newsworthy enough to report.…
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Your Turn — Partnering with the Tobacco Commission
For more than two decades, Southside Virginia Community College (SVCC) has partnered with the Virginia Tobacco Region Revitalization…
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From The Editor’s Desk: Who scheduled Virginia’s gold mining meetings?
As soon as the date and time were announced, the emails started coming in. Buckingham County residents were…
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Your turn — Energy policies cost economy $100 billion a year
How do we get to work? How do we heat and cool our homes? How do we keep…
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Your turn — No secrets in our schools
Democrats and other left-wing activists continue to push back against the Department of Education’s new, common-sense model policies…
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Your Turn — ‘We got soft on crime’
“We got soft on crime.” This was the quote from the Mayor of Roanoke. He was referring to…
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OPINION — Have you voted yet?
Last November, Virginians elected a GOP majority in the House and the first Republican governor in over a…
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Your Turn — I’ll let you in on a secret
I was truly disgusted when I saw the blatantly transphobic and uninformed “opinion” piece The Farmville Herald allowed…
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Your turn — The results weren’t that bad
The Department of Education released their 2022-23 School Accreditation summary last week, and on the surface, the results…
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OPINION — Let’s talk about transgender politics
There are any number of issues that should upset right thinking people coming out of Washington and some…
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Your Turn — Here’s what’s happening around the Commonwealth
Governor Glenn Youngkin announced that total revenue collections in August for the Commonwealth’s general fund grew by 13%…
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OPINION: This is the war we’re not fighting. Let’s talk about fentanyl
We can look back at various wars that our nation has been involved in and have differing opinions…
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From the Editor’s Desk — Building brick by brick
Growing up, I was a big fan of Legos. I loved building things, starting from the ground up…
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Your Turn — Is this a swan song for colleges?
In the last three decades, many have been concerned about the direction of our colleges. Despite that, we…
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Your Turn — No more RGGI in Virginia
Recently, Governor Youngkin began the process of changing policy to remove Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.…