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Dispatches from Wharf Hill
It doesn’t appear that Republican legislators have an appetite for aggressively pursuing abortion restrictions in the Virginia General Assembly’s 2023 session. Despite backing from Gov. ...
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by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, January 24, 2023 5:46 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
The Luter family’s proposed Grange at 10Main development, which took a big hit in the court of public opinion last fall, gets an important reset ...
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by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, January 10, 2023 4:40 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
This Christmas, I’m grateful for the selfless among us who give to their community and fellow man through small acts of kindness with no desire ...
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by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, December 20, 2022 4:49 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
You could see the shakeup of Isle of Wight County’s School Board coming from a mile away. Or at least a year away. I wrote ...
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by Steve Stewart, Monday, December 5, 2022 8:33 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Watching hundreds of dejected, angry citizens file out of the Smithfield Center on a hot July night in 2021, this scribe, then a new observer ...
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by Steve Stewart, Monday, November 21, 2022 6:34 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
“End of an era” is tossed around loosely in public service, but the recent passing of Smithfield’s Bill Barlow is reason to lament a closed ...
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by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, October 11, 2022 5:13 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
We were proud prudes at my house growing up, in an era — the 1970s and early 1980s — when the Sexual Revolution was well ...
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by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, September 27, 2022 5:45 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Labor Day salutes the American worker, God bless them all, especially in this era when record numbers of people are choosing not to work. But ...
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by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, September 6, 2022 6:50 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Until last week, I considered Isle of Wight County School Board member Michael Vines to be an unimportant side show — loose-lipped, quick-tempered and beleaguered, ...
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by Steve Stewart, Wednesday, August 17, 2022 7:17 pm
Dispatches from Wharf Hill
Until last week, I considered Isle of Wight County School Board member Michael Vines to be an unimportant side show — loose-lipped, quick-tempered and beleaguered, ...
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by Steve Stewart, Tuesday, August 16, 2022 5:30 pm
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