““There is no public safety without guns. If guns didn’t exist, yes,” said Ra-Twoine Fields. “But we live in America, where there are more guns than people. So no, there is no public safety without guns. What we can do is learn how to manage it, how to live with it...
The Virginia League for Planned Parenthood (VLPP) and the Virginia Department of Health will provide uninsured patients with free long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) through a Virginia LARC initiative. The initiative was approved in the two-year state budget by Governor Northam and the Virginia General Assembly. The LARC initiative is...
There are very few ways to make Limp Bizkit (LB) relevant again, let alone a situation in which lead singer Fred Durst looks cool. And few would suspect Insane Clown Posse, the clown posse labeled a “violent gang” by the FBI, to be the ones to do so. But here we are. Limp Bizkit was mid-set last Saturday at Rock Allegiance Festival in Camden, NJ...
A Stafford County Middle School has come under fire for isolating a transgender girl during active shooter training last week. According to a Facebook post by Equality Stafford on October 3, the incident occurred during a lock down drill. "One student was prevented from entering either the boys or girls locker room while the teachers discussed...
Is there anything more alluring than the thrill of traveling: the precipice of stepping into the unknown, the enchantment of far away lands, the freedom of an open road? Or just having some stranger at an airport of a roadside rest stop eyeball you up and down like a travel-sized toothpaste? Well, if that's your bag, then this week's Missed...
The future of memorials to Virginia’s dark history, on one of Richmond’s most iconic streets, is still out of the city’s hands. Following a 6-3 vote by Richmond City Council, the chamber rejected a resolution to request greater control of the statuary on Monument Avenue from the state government. “I’m baffled by the notion of us not being willing...
Congressman Donald McEachin and House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer toured Shockoe Antelier (Shockoe) in Richmond earlier today. The visit, part of Hoyer's Make it in America tour, has been focusing on job creation, entrepreneurship, and how government can help grow and support small businesses: which makes Shockoe Atelier a great local...
*This is a developing story. Earlier today the Jewish Community Center (JCC) of Northern Virginia (NOVA) was the target of an anti-Semitic crime when Swastikas were painted across the front of the facility. A letter released by the JCC in Fairfax said, "As many of us recognize, these acts do not represent the community around the J or the...
If you live in one of the handful of cities where dockless scooters have landed, you've probably either come across one, ran into one, or had one run into you. Whether this has come in the form of a brainless college student zooming along at 15mph through the River City’s rickety streets, or lead to a broken leg like some residents, we’ve all...
Missed Connections: Kismet, destiny, and fate; all of which can be life changing and earth shattering. You never know where one of these fortuitous encounters might happen -- in far off exotic locations, where love is all but inevitable, or, alternatively, on Route 10 in majestic Chesterfield County. Yet regardless of where you were this past...
