Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security asked a simple question yesterday during a congressional hearing: which domestic organizations does the FBI consider the top threats to the country right now? Michael Glasheen, who...
A recent "pairing" proposal to help integrate two Richmond city schools has run into a backlash that, in some eyes, harks back to the bad old days of Massive Resistance. The Richmond Public School System’s solution to improve diversity has frustrated some residents to the point that they are threatening to leave the district. And some see the...
On July 12, Richmonders joined with protesters across the country, showing their opposition to detention camps and family separations at the US-Mexico border with the nationwide Lights For Liberty vigil. Hundreds of supporters came out to the Lights for Liberty vigil in front of the state Capitol building in downtown Richmond on Friday, July...
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has asked that question in public lately, and it's one that all of our lawmakers should be considering. Weed isn’t a big deal. The military is treating PTSD with ecstacy. The legal right to grow weed has existed in our nation’s capital for years. The city of Denver has medical mushrooms, while the state of...
Artist Jake Berman has been creating maps of bygone streetcar systems around the US. Now he's turned his focus onto the first electric streetcar system ever, which opened right here in Richmond in 1888. Believe it or not, there used to be a way to get around Richmond that didn’t involve struggling to find an opportunity to turn left off of Broad...
The crowd of protesters outside Virginia's Capitol numbered in the hundreds, but the Republican-controlled General Assembly did nothing to appease them. Chants echoed off the buildings in front of Virginia’s State Capitol as protesters rallied for stricter gun control laws Tuesday morning. Hundreds of protesters representing various...
Virginia Museum Of History and Culture's Determined exhibit sheds light on four hundred years of black Virginians' struggles to be seen as equal. The Virginia Museum of History and Culture’s latest exhibit, Determined: The 400 Year Struggle for Black Equality, sets out to educate and inspire the public by highlighting the hardships, resiliency,...
State Senator and firearm advocate Amanda Chase's comments advanced a dangerous misunderstanding of the causes of rape. If you are not carrying a firearm and get raped, you got what was coming to you -- at least according to Senator Amanda Chase. On July 3, the Virginia State Senator for the 11th District engaged in a Facebook argument on her...
A new VA Dept. of Agriculture program gives you the opportunity to receive free beehives and equipment from the government. But is honeybee cultivation really the environmental solution it seems to be? If the quintessential ecological battle cry of the seventies was “Save The Whales,” today it is “Save The Bees.” Since Ellen Page’s solemn...
The urban chickens of Richmond are bringing communities together by laying eggs. Tucked away in the backyards and gardens of Richmond live some unusual pets: chickens, to be exact. While you might not see them as you pass through the city’s streets, chickens in all sizes and colors have become a staple form of urban livestock since the city...
