The past few years have gotten us used to bad news from the Centers for Disease Control, and this week was more of the same, yet this time it had nothing to do with COVID. The agency’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that about one in three high-school age girls had seriously considered sui…
Two years ago, in a rare show of bipartisan unanimity, the General Assembly created a joint subcommittee to study comprehensive campaign finance reform. Finally lawmakers showed a willingness to take a long, hard look at the rules which govern elections with an eye toward making substantive …
While the investigation into the Jan. 6 shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News continues, allegations against the school division allege an escalating pattern of disruptive behavior before the 6-year-old shot 25-year-old first-grade teacher Abigail Zwerner. Why these complain…
The deadly toll of drug overdoses in Virginia just keeps getting worse. It will take a concerted statewide effort at every level — from leaders in Richmond to frontline workers across the state — to reduce the tragic numbers and make 2023 the year that deadly tide starts to turn. The numbers…
Defense spending is vital to the ensure the nation’s security. But that doesn’t mean the Pentagon should be above budget scrutiny. Far from it, as a recent audit reveals. Last week, the Government Accountability Office concluded that the Pentagon cannot account for at least $220 billion in m…
The Virginia General Assembly made history two years ago when it voted to legalize personal cultivation of marijuana and possession of the plant in small amounts, becoming the first state in the South to do so. Unfortunately, the legislation only went halfway. While lawmakers removed crimina…
The start of a new year offers the perfect opportunity to better protect yourself, your financial health and your long-term future by resolving to take online security seriously in 2023. As crimes such as identity theft, fraud and scams proliferate in frequency and grow annually in severity,…
There is a 0% chance that a proposal to eliminate the federal income tax and replace it with a massive national sales tax will even get out of the Republican-controlled House, let alone become law. But the fact that such a bluntly soak-the-poor idea is even getting an airing under new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy should stand as ominous confirmation that he is basically a hostage to his ...
Whether President Joe Biden’s misguided plan to forgive some $400 billion in federal student-loan debt goes forward will ultimately be up to the Supreme Court. For now, there’s more the federal government should be doing to rein in the costs of higher education — and thus reduce how much students borrow in the first place. In particular: It should insist that colleges stop hiding exactly how ...
The deadly toll of drug overdoses in Virginia just keeps getting worse. It will take a concerted statewide effort at every level — from leaders in Richmond to frontline workers across the state — to reduce the tragic numbers and make 2023 the year that deadly tide starts to turn. The numbers were still climbing in 2021 even though the increase in drug overdose deaths was not as dramatic as the ...
Defense spending is vital to the ensure the nation’s security. But that doesn’t mean the Pentagon should be above budget scrutiny. Far from it, as a recent audit reveals. Last week, the Government Accountability Office concluded that the Pentagon cannot account for at least $220 billion in military gear given out to defense contractors. Nor is this a new phenomenon. The report found that the ...
The Virginia General Assembly made history two years ago when it voted to legalize personal cultivation of marijuana and possession of the plant in small amounts, becoming the first state in the South to do so. Unfortunately, the legislation only went halfway. While lawmakers removed criminal punishment for recreational cannabis use, they did not take the necessary steps to establish a ...
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are both being investigated over their handling of classified materials. While publicly disclosed information reflects that the cases are clearly different, the investigatory processes should not be. To that end, Attorney General Merrick Garland rightly appointed special prosecutors in each instance, including naming Robert Hur — a Trump ...
The start of a new year offers the perfect opportunity to better protect yourself, your financial health and your long-term future by resolving to take online security seriously in 2023. As crimes such as identity theft, fraud and scams proliferate in frequency and grow annually in severity, there is no better time to address this threat and adopt some tried-and-true best practices to guard ...
The absence of regular House rules during last week’s drawn out floor fight for House speaker produced an unexpected benefit: C-SPAN and other news organizations were able to show the country the whole dayslong battle in real time — including a near-fistfight between two congressmen — because of a pause in the restrictions that normally govern the cameras. At least one member is suggesting the ...
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares made a big show of announcing last year that his office had organized an Election Integrity Unit to bring more transparency and accountability to Virginia’s elections. But when asked for documents about the unit — in the interest of transparency and accountability — the AG’s office wanted to charge the Virginia NAACP nearly $20,000 to see them. The group ...
When it convenes this week, the Virginia General Assembly will face a multitude of tough choices and lawmakers’ decisions will shape the commonwealth’s future. Central among these is how best to utilize a revenue windfall in a time of economic uncertainty. So far, key legislative leaders from both parties, along with Gov. Glenn Youngkin, have struck the appropriate tone by preaching caution. ...
The new year is a great time to make a tangible and lasting contribution to your community by being more involved in civic affairs close to home. Hampton Roads needs talented, committed residents to share their time and talents, and there’s no better way to affect change than by lending your passion to improving things. As we venture into 2023, we do so with the painful knowledge that some ...
If there was ever a clarifying moment about the importance of learning cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), it was on Monday night when an NFL player collapsed during a nationally televised game following a violent collision. Medical technicians at the stadium were able to use a defibrillator and CPR to resuscitate the young man on the field before he was transported to a local hospital. He ...
The national debt is much like the weather. Everybody worries about the topic, but nobody wants to do anything about it. These days, however, it seems that every blizzard, thunderstorm, flood, hurricane, tornado, heat wave or cold spell represents the latest onslaught of Armageddon. Perhaps the national debt should hire weather’s PR team to increase its profile. In November, the federal ...
Say this about Gov. Glenn Youngkin: He’s persistent. Only the General Assembly, which voted in 2020 for Virginia to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, can remove the commonwealth from that multistate compact. But that hasn’t stopped the governor from jiggling every door knob and testing every window to find an exit. Expect the governor to keep trying, but unless he can establish the ...
America and the world on Wednesday saw a supreme defense of democracy as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky quantified the stakes of his country’s existential resistance to Russia’s criminal invasion — and eloquently argued that it’s the free world’s fight as well. But while Zelensky was met with standing ovations from most of a joint session of Congress during his historic address, his words fell on deaf ears among what at this point can fairly be called the GOP’s Neville Chamberlain Caucus.
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Big Pharma and big retailers like Walmart, CVS and Walgreens that got rich off opioid sales have offered settlements in the billions of dollars to escape liability for the national addiction crisis they helped cause. They don’t admit guilt, but they can’t escape it, either. And the aftermath of the mess they created continues to worsen by the day as street addicts feed their habits with fentanyl, a far more potent and deadly alternative to opioids.
Unknown assailants attacked two electric substations in Moore County, North Carolina, last weekend, using firearms to damage critical components and cut power to about 45,000 people for several days. While law enforcement officials are so far reluctant to say it, this was an act of terrorism. It has been clear for years that the nation’s dated and deteriorating power grid is vulnerable to ...
Sometimes justice and common sense win out over politics and pandering. That happened Monday when the state of Virginia settled a lawsuit brought by the parents of disabled children put at health risk by Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s attempt to ban mask mandates in public schools. Youngkin made killing school mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic his second executive order upon taking office in January. (The first banned teaching children about Virginia’s long history of institutional racism.)
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The crisis prompted by hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers swarming into the United States could be about to get worse. Ahead of the Nov. 8 midterms, Republicans pounded President Joe Biden for failing to stop the flood of migrants at the U.S. southern border, while progressive Democrats criticized the administration for not doing more to help people desperately fleeing starvation, human rights abuses and gang violence.
More than 20 years after 9/11, Americans are still taking their shoes off at airport checkpoints and remain prohibited from packing larger bottles in their luggage. Yet the folks at the Department of Homeland Security continue to be flummoxed about how to implement more stringent identification requirements for airline passengers. On Monday, the department announced that it was again delaying ...
Forget the work-from-home revolution or quiet quitting: The COVID-19 pandemic’s biggest impact on the U.S. labor market will be as a mass disability event. It’s a shock that the economy is not well prepared to handle. An estimated 1 in 4 COVID patients experience symptoms lasting months. In principle, not all of them should have to leave the labor force. First, they should be able to call in ...
The state’s new Combating Antisemitism Report has much to commend.
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