It was an odd juxtaposition: Moments after rattling off a broad list of priorities and goals for the 2023 General Assembly session during his State of the Commonwealth address on Jan. 11, the centerpiece of which is $1 billion worth of tax cuts intended to rev up economic development and sti…
School choice is edging its way to the frontlines in the political battle over how to improve K-12 education in the 2023 General Assembly session, which kicked off in earnest Jan. 5 when Del. Glenn Davis, R-Virginia Beach, held a press conference to announce legislation that would create Edu…
Once again, the Richmond Police Department is at a crossroads.
State Sen. Jennifer McClellan’s emphatic victory in this week’s Democratic primary for the vacant 4th District Congressional seat is setting up as a historic moment for Virginia.
Last week, the Richmond Sheriff’s Office responded to a Richmond Times-Dispatch Freedom of Information Act request for payroll records with a well-worn tactic increasingly deployed by government agencies across Virginia: obstruction by charging inflated fees.
Two-and-a-half years after George Floyd was brutally killed by Minneapolis police, igniting a national wave of social justice protests that washed over the public conscience and seemingly every American city — including Richmond, where protests spanned for days on end in the summer of 2020 —…
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OUR VIEW: A clean break is needed, not timid hedging that hopes he’ll go away on his own
As the University of Virginia and Charlottesville community mourn the loss of three student-athletes who were gunned down Sunday night after a charter bus trip to Washington, D.C., another round of the relentlessly unproductive debate over gun control is upon us. Why didn’t the university mo…
OUR VIEW: Democracy shines while Trump and transparency tumble
The much-anticipated red wave didn’t materialize, but it’s still too early to know which party will control Congress after Tuesday’s midterm elections. Will election deniers overturn results in key battlegrounds? Will Biden be impeached? Stay tuned.
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By THE TIMES-DISPATCH EDITORIAL BOARD
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A recent article in The Times-Dispatch described the massive exodus of teachers from Richmond area school districts. This exodus, both in Virginia and nationwide, has been worsening for quite some time. The pandemic just pushed it over the edge.
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The Ponderosa Steakhouse in Ashland was the scene of one of the D.C. sniper case shootings in 2002. Ashland police Officer Tim Meacham was the first to arrive at the restaurant, which has since closed, after 911 calls.
For years, supporters of Donald Trump have alleged a vast news media conspiracy to cover up the alleged corrupt activities of Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son.
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President Joe Biden is flat-out wrong if he thinks the pandemic is over. Although the trendlines are pointing downward, the United States still registers around 360 deaths per day from the coronavirus along with a seven-day average of 55,000 new infections, with 13,700 people currently hospi…
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There is little more disabling to a resident than coming home to find the water shut off. Unfortunately, many poor Virginians are facing that prospect as protections put in place to prevent shut-offs during COVID are now expiring.
When I arrived at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in July 2019, I walked into the Lombardy Street Kroger and picked up a copy of the newspaper.
At the conclusion of play on Saturday, one team walked away with the trophy. The city of Fredericksburg, however, walked off with a financial win following last week’s Babe Ruth World Series tournament played at Virginia Credit Union Stadium.
Virginia’s Standards of Learning tests “establish minimum expectations” for student achievement across key subjects. While recent results for the 2021-22 school year showed noticeable declines in English, math, science and other subjects, our children’s chances to catch up hinge on the envir…
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