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Opinion: Never Underestimate Virginia Republicans

Ed Gillespie, the Republican candidate for Governor, could not have imagined a worse time for the Mueller indictments to come down. Special prosecutor Robert Mueller hit Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and his business partner, Rick Gates, with 12 different...

Opinion: The Reason Why Gun Control Won’t Work in Virginia

The Las Vegas mass casualty attack - one of the deadliest in modern US history - has brought gun control to the forefront of Virginia’s gubernatorial race. Democratic nominee Ralph Northam has pushed for universal background checks and an assault weapons ban, while at...

Opinion: Dawn Adams, a Candidate for the Community

Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Dawn Adams over the phone. Adams is the Democratic candidate for the 2017 Virginia House of Delegates election in the 68th district, which includes parts of Chesterfield, Henrico, and Richmond. Adams has spent over 20 years...

Opinion: Gun Control Isn’t The Answer, Disarmament Is

58 dead, 515 wounded. Those numbers will continue to rise throughout the afternoon and into the evening. This tends to be the rule governing mass casualty attacks like the one in Las Vegas - now being reported as the most deadly in US history. Despite this, there are...

Opinion: Debating Free Speech in Virginia

The violent clashes in Charlottesville on August 12 turned the spotlight on freedom of speech across the nation, with many asking just how much hate speech is covered under the first amendment. And just over a week ago, Richmond experienced a neo-Confederate rally on...

Richmond Has To Be Looked At: ‘Richmond Is So Scene’

We received this in an email to win the Medeski, Martin, & Wood tickets and thought it rang true. Richmond can be ridiculous. Richmond is so scene Seriously, Richmond has to be looked at. This girl from Lynchburg moved there. She lets me know that she has a shirt that says, ‘Richmond is so scene.’ She works in Carytown but...

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Psyched Out or Psyched Up?

Born two centuries ago this year, Edgar Allan Poe is Virginia’s favorite adopted son and one of America’s most renowned authors. His work is as creepy and insightful today as when it was written – and surprisingly relevant. For example, Poe’s detective story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” was written in 1841 in the context of a previous...

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