The Parham Papers, is the work of private investigator-turned-journalist Christa Motley. Since 2022, she’s been documenting how the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences (VARR), the state’s accrediting body for sober living programs, operated in the shadows,...
Representatives from the Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia (PPAV) stopped by Congressman Dave Brat’s Glen Allen office Wednesday afternoon to drop off petitions urging him to vote against repealing the Affordable Care Act and any cuts to abortion access. Brat has already said he'd vote against the bill, but not for the reasons PPAV would...
RICHMOND – At the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867-1868, James Carter, who represented Chesterfield and Powhatan counties, introduced a resolution requiring students to attend public school for at least three months a year. Also at the convention, James William D. Bland, who represented Appomattox and Prince Edward counties, called for...
Despite promising to take no vacations during his presidency, Trump had spent 31% of his time as president playing golf at his resort in Mar-a-Lago, FL, to a tune of about $3 million each in tax payer funding. After releasing a budget calling for the elimination of funds to clean up the bay ($73 million last year) Virginia's state Democratic...
RICHMOND – Virginia probably will ease up a bit in its laws against marijuana by making it easier for epilepsy patients to obtain cannabis extract oils and by relaxing the penalty for people caught with small amounts of marijuana. Gov. Terry McAuliffe is expected to sign the handful of marijuana-related bills passed by the General Assembly during...
Tim Cywinksi, Communications Director for non-profit organization Virginia 21, excitedly pulled out his phone to show me a video. “Here’s the line…” he said, enlarging the video and turning the volume up. The video panned over the line of VCU students outside their polling place near the campus, waiting in the dark, at 7:45 AM on Election Day....
“Nothing hurts any more, until the consequences crash through the screen. Immersed almost permanently in virtual worlds, we cannot check what we are told against tangible reality. Is it any wonder that we live in a post-truth era, when we are bereft of experience? … The shrinking of our contact with the tangible world has taken place at a speed...
National tension surrounding immigration laws converged in two competing rallies in downtown Richmond this past weekend. One rally, organized by Trump’s former Virginia campaign chair and Virginia GOP Gubernatorial candidate, Corey Stewart, opposes sanctuary cities. The other rally, organized by a group called Richmond Struggle, supports...
RICHMOND – At the center of a suburban neighborhood on the outskirts of Richmond’s city limits, a collection of small white houses sit quietly. Outside, the taut winter air is split open by a group of grade-school children streaking past each other in relentless pursuit of a soccer ball, shouting breathlessly in their native tongues. The scene...
Saturday, November 12th, four days after Donald J. Trump was elected, hundreds of people gathered in downtown Richmond for an event called “Richmond Grabs Back.” The event was part of a vaguely coordinated call to action alongside cities across the country. Unlike many initial protest events held around the country after election night, this...
