Apple and Google sit at the center of today’s misinformation crisis, and Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine should focus there if they want real change. Together, they control the app stores that determine which platforms can exist on billions of phones. Access to iOS...
A group led by family members of murder victims is petitioning the General Assembly to abolish Virginia's death penalty, arguing that capital punishment "fails victims' families." Christiansburg resident Rachel Sutphin mourns the loss of two men’s lives every day: her father, Cpl. Eric Sutphin, and his killer, William Morva. Morva murdered...
Solar United Neighbors is helping Virginians who care about the environment band together and convert their homes and businesses to solar energy. Joy Loving bought a Prius in 2012. The purchase was the first of two investments she said she made in a personal effort to save money and reduce her carbon footprint. The second: go solar. After...
The eighth installment in a monthly series in which a hometown Richmonder who has spent over a decade abroad explores the many different neighborhoods accessible by GRTC bus lines to discover the ways transit connects us all. Union Hill: One could hardly find a better metaphor for Union Hill’s relationship to and position within Richmond than its...
For Ghazala Hashmi, the first Muslim to serve in Virginia's state Senate, her victory in this month's election is a fortuitous opportunity to make progress for Virginia's more vulnerable communities. “It was back in 2017 that I had a moment of personal crisis,” said Ghazala Hashmi, who defeated incumbent Republican Glen Sturtevant in the race for...
As income inequality grows, a number of candidates for president have proposed taxes on wealthy Americans. Now VA Congressman Don Beyer and Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen are using legislation to pursue that goal. The richest 1 percent of Americans control more wealth than the entire middle class combined, according to the Brookings...
Richmond has the third-slowest mail delivery rate of any United States metro area. But if you live here, you already know that. Rachel Westfall, who lives in Richmond’s Jackson Ward neighborhood, says her mail service has always been hit or miss. But since April, there have been a lot more misses. “My personal property tax check apparently never...
Virginia state Senator-elect Ghazala Hashmi will be the first Muslim to serve in Virginia's legislature, and a lot of racists on social media just can't stop crying about it. Days after Virginia’s legislative elections, racist comments continued to flood news stories about Ghazala Hashmi becoming the first Muslim American to serve in the state...
Nearly 100,000 Virginia children live in high-poverty neighborhoods; that figure includes 15 percent of Virginia's African American children, but only 2 percent of the commonwealth's white children. African American children are more than seven times as likely as white children in Virginia to live in “concentrated poverty” — neighborhoods where...
In the run-up to today's election, political candidates are trying all sorts of novel ways to reach young voters -- including, yes, ads on Snapchat. A candidate for sheriff in a rural Virginia county is trying to reach younger voters by advertising on a social media platform popular with their age group — Snapchat. William Stowell is an...
