by R. Anthony Harris | Apr 21, 2026 | NEWS, OPINION & EDITORIAL, VIRGINIA POLITICS
I had a friend ask me about redistricting. He was trying to figure out how to vote and admitted he did not really understand what was happening. He leans left, so the fact that he was unsure says something about how this issue is being presented right now. Virginia...
by RVA Staff | Apr 9, 2026 | LETTER TO THE EDITOR, OPINION, VIRGINIA POLITICS
Editor’s Note: RVA Magazine has been covering Virginia’s evolving hemp and cannabis regulations, including proposed changes to THC limits and retail licensing. The following is a guest opinion from a Virginia hemp business owner directly affected by SB 542. By Barbara...
by R. Anthony Harris | Apr 7, 2026 | COMMUNITY, OPINION
I stopped for gas the other day, it’s $4.19 a gallon. You swipe your card, you move on. That’s just the baseline price of existing now in Richmond. Inside, I grabbed a couple things without thinking. A two-pack of Reese’s and an iced tea. The kind of purchase made a...
by RVA Staff | Apr 2, 2026 | COMMUNITY, DO GOOD, LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Editor’s Note: The following essay is by Mary Graham, CEO of READ RVA, a Richmond-based nonprofit focused on adult literacy. I learned early not to assume anything about who can read. A man once stopped me on Broad Street. He held out a scrap of paper with an address...
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 | Mar 2, 2026 | COMMUNITY, OPINION
Walk through just about any neighborhood in Richmond and you’ll see them. The small blue-lit doorbells tucked into brick row houses in Church Hill. The newer setups in Manchester townhomes and Scott’s Addition apartments. For a lot of us, buying a Ring camera was...
