Opinion

Column – Protect and strengthen Virginia’s sunshine law

This is Sunshine Week, a little-known observance of our right to know what government is doing. It’s been ...

Opinion

Column – Statue preserves an immigrant family’s beautiful story

It has been said until it has become our most overused cliche that we are a nation of ...

Opinion

Column – Military service is declining, and America is worse for it

A rather humorous encounter with Medicare a week or so ago reminded me of the growing absence of ...

Opinion

Amid the snow drought, memories of the Circus Blizzard

Snow has rarely been a significant problem in Isle of Wight and Surry, though Surry is a bit ...

Opinion

Column – Amy Palmer was a happy, and effective, warrior

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was led nationally by some amazing people, men and women who ...

Opinion

Column – ‘Genuine Smithfield Ham’ gone forever, or is it?

The Spanish brag of their serrano and the Italians their prosciutto, as well they should. And, in recent ...

Opinion

Column – On the eve of Black History Month, meet two IW giants

Each generation has its giants, and here in Isle of Wight County, they have been abundant.  Black History ...

Opinion

Column – Pagan is cleaner, but population growth still pollutes

Last in a series The Hampton Roads Sanitation District sewer line has opened the door to a flood ...

Opinion

Column – Sewer line opened the floodgates for IW growth

Isle of Wight’s residential growth didn’t begin with a sewer line through Carrollton. The Hampton Roads Sanitation District ...

Opinion

Column – History of growth in IW? Just follow the sewer

The late Elsey Harris, who was Smithfield’s town manager during the 1970s and ’80s, dreaded the kind of ...

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