by Malik Hall | Nov 13, 2017 | OPINION
Charlotte Figi was three months old when she first started having seizures. By age two, she began having seizures so severe it resulted in the loss of motor ability. After a series of grueling and rigorous tests, she was diagnosed with Dravet Syndrome, a rare and...
by Ryan Persaud | Nov 10, 2017 | OPINION
I wasn’t enthusiastic about voting yesterday. Although I took the day off because some of my professors canceled classes, I wasn’t in a rush to get to my polling place. After I spent my morning and early afternoon catching up on assignments, I headed out on that...
by Rich Meagher | Nov 5, 2017 | OPINION
Ralph Northam should win Tuesday’s election. If you’ve paid any attention to local and national media, you probably have heard that this race has been tightening for weeks. This is understandable; mainstream media outlets are famously prone to horserace coverage, and...
by Brandon Jarvis | Nov 2, 2017 | OPINION
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...
by RVA Staff | Oct 17, 2017 | OPINION
Could Walter Williams have said anything more injuriously base in his most recent Richmond Times Dispatch (RTD) article, titled White privilege and other fables? It would certainly be difficult, but then again that is not saying much for the RTD. Where does one even...
by Matthew S. Sporn | Oct 12, 2017 | OPINION
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...