by R. Anthony Harris | Jun 9, 2026 | CANNABIS CULTURE, COMMUNITY, CULTURE, EDITORIAL, SMALL BUSINESS, VIRGINIA POLITICS
A recent report by Radio IQ suggests Virginia lawmakers are once again inching toward a legal recreational marijuana market, this time through the state budget process. Following Governor Abigail Spanberger’s veto, Senate Democrats have threatened to fold retail...
by R. Anthony Harris | Apr 1, 2026 | EDITORIAL, NEWS, POLITICS
Senator Mark Warner went to the pages of The New York Times this week to warn that the biggest threat to American elections may no longer be foreign interference, but the federal government itself. That sounds dramatic until you realize we’ve been heading in this...
by R. Anthony Harris | Feb 24, 2026 | EDITORIAL
The Richmond Free Press stopped publishing a few weeks ago. With its closure Richmond lost a major, longstanding Black-owned media institution that defined Black civic life in this city.. For more than three decades, the Free Press was more than just another...
by R. Anthony Harris | Jan 23, 2026 | EDITORIAL, VIRGINIA POLITICS
Governor Abigail Spanberger has said she wants to protect Virginians from harmful federal overreach. If that is true, this is a moment to prove it. This week, Hanover County confirmed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement intends to purchase a...
by R. Anthony Harris | Jan 12, 2026 | EDITORIAL, OPINION & EDITORIAL, VIRGINIA POLITICS
Apple and Google sit at the center of today’s misinformation crisis, and Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine should focus there if they want real change. Together, they control the app stores that determine which platforms can exist on billions of phones. Access to iOS...
by Salty Oldman | Oct 29, 2025 | EDITORIAL, NEWS, OPINION & EDITORIAL, POLITICS
Your health insurance is renewing, congratulations, and by the way, it’s going to cost a lot more next year. Maybe twice as much, maybe five times, depending on how much you make and how little Congress feels like doing its job. That’s about 400,000 Virginians whose...
