Richmond Advocate Challenges Students: Try Ranked Choice Voting, Win $1,500

Scott Burger, longtime Richmond community advocate and publisher of OregonHill.net, has raised the stakes for local students interested in experimenting with ranked choice voting (RCV). This week, Burger announced his award for any Richmond-area student...

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Virginians Spending the 50th Anniversary Of Earth Day At Home

In the midst of an outbreak, the ongoing climate crisis has faded from many people's minds. But cleaning up our environment is still important -- as long as you do so in a proper socially distanced way. On Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, people all over the world will...

Group Conversion “Therapy” – And Its Aftermath – At Liberty University

A former Liberty student shares his experiences with conversion therapy on campus -- and the profound negative effects it had on his life and the lives of many others. We're only a month into quarantine, and already Liberty University, the world’s largest evangelical...

Zooming Pets To Their Forever Homes

Sheltering in place might seem like it'd make it more difficult to adopt a pet, but Richmond Animal League has digitized the process to make sure adoptions continue even in the midst of quarantine. As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to disrupt our way of life, one...

Pat Robertson Blames Coronavirus Pandemic on ‘Wicked’ Same-Sex Marriage

After all these years, Virginia's original anti-LGBTQ TV preacher, Pat Robertson, is still using catastrophic events as an excuse to push the same hateful agenda he's always had. Televangelist and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson is blaming the...

Best Of VA Missed Connections April 15 – April 21

It's time for another installment of Missed Connections, where this week makes clearer than ever that everyone is kinda getting tired of being so bummed about coronavirus all the time. Sure, we're all still on quarantine, and nobody wants to get the COVID… but if...

Ensuring Everyone Gets Fed

A variety of charitable organizations are working hard to ensure that Virginians in need are getting enough to eat -- a mission that's more important than ever during the current outbreak. A bumpy economic road lies ahead of us thanks to the unprecedented pandemic we...

Keeping Richmond’s LGBTQ Gathering Places Alive

LGBTQ bars and restaurants are the lifeblood of our community culture here in Richmond, and the COVID-19 outbreak has placed a heavy strain on them all. Here's how you can help make sure they stick around. As we are all aware, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the way...