It is not our failures that make us human, but rather our convictions to yet succeed. The accelerating collapse of corporate and governmental accountability has led to widespread civic abandonment. Mass layoffs at social safety net agencies, executive rollbacks on...
2017 will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the worst years in collective American memory. Our politics have become malignant; the fabric of our citizenry might be frayed to the point of disrepair. One party is content to openly side with Nazis and pedophiles, so long as they provide a tax break for the rich. The other party is content to...
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 severe form of intractable epilepsy according to CNN's report. Charlotte’s family,...
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 rainy, dreary day, ready to begrudgingly cast my vote for Ralph Northam and the other...
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 a competitive race always makes for a better story. Plus, Northam has had some...
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 indictments. One of the most headline-grabbing of those charges was “Conspiracy...
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 begin? This entire piece is a travesty of toxic masculine excess, reinforced by...
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 ban, while at the same time reinstating a former law limiting handgun purchases to one per...
Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Dawn Adams over the phone. Adams is the Democratic candidate for the 2017 Virginia House of Delegates election in the 68th district, which includes parts of Chesterfield, Henrico, and Richmond. Adams has spent over 20 years working in the Richmond area as a registered nurse, nurse practitioner, access...
58 dead, 515 wounded. Those numbers will continue to rise throughout the afternoon and into the evening. This tends to be the rule governing mass casualty attacks like the one in Las Vegas - now being reported as the most deadly in US history. Despite this, there are no words which can adequately articulate this senseless loss of life, even...
