Editor’s Note: This column is informed by recent reporting from Brad Kutner at Radio IQ and WVTF on proposed changes to Virginia’s food-to-alcohol sales ratio, as well as conversations with people connected to the restaurant and hospitality industry. Virginia’s liquor...
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...
In a discussion featuring political leaders from around the Commonwealth, Richmonders voiced their support for gun control legislation in Virginia. In a roundtable discussion on gun control legislation hosted by Senator Tim Kaine on southside Monday morning, Richmonders voiced their concerns about a lack of attention given to youth and education...
In a Daily Press Op-Ed published on Sunday, Virginia's Attorney General made the case for decriminalizing possession of marijuana. In a move that pleased cannabis advocates and made headlines around the state, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring wrote an op-ed in Sunday's Daily Press calling for the decriminalization of "minor marijuana...
This report was commissioned by Northam's alma mater, not the state of Virginia, and we shouldn't be surprised when it serves its client's aims, writes Rich Meagher. Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS), Ralph Northam’s alma mater, was not able to figure out if Governor Ralph Northam wore blackface in an old yearbook photo. That’s the...
The Virginia Energy Reform Coalition has brought together groups of various political affiliations to push for free-market alternatives to Dominion. With the current divisions between political ideologies in America, the advent of a group like the Virginia Energy Reform Coalition (VERC) can be like a breath of fresh air. VERC is composed of...
Vandals spray-painted 19 swastikas on the walls of the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia last October. A young woman leaving a mosque with her friends in Sterling, Virginia, after nightly prayers in the summer of 2017 was raped and killed. Someone scrawled “F*** God & Allah” across a Farmville mosque in October 2017. Later that...
"In my ideal world, I'd want him to resign," said Vanessa Tyson, one of two women to accuse Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax of sexual assault. Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson, the two women who accused Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault earlier this year, granted interviews to CBS News this week. Those interviews aired Monday and Tuesday on...
A federal proposal to move the Ettrick Amtrak station to Colonial Heights has caused concern from both Congressional representatives and community advocates from Virginia State University. For over 30 years, Amtrak has served the Petersburg area through the train station located at 3516 South Street in Ettrick. A small community just west of...
Attempting to disassociate from the former Confederate president's legacy of racism and slavery, Arlington County is taking steps to rename their portion of Jefferson Davis Highway. And Attorney General Herring says they have the legal right to do so. The portion of Jefferson Davis Highway that runs through Arlington County could be renamed as...
