Opinion

Across all of Southwest and Southside, only five candidates are running as Democrats for local offices.

In the 1960s and ’70s, there was a proposal to dam the New River for a hydroelectric project that would have flooded 10% of Grayson County.

Powering our modern, highly interconnected economy — getting from “here to there.”

Unemployment rates tend to be higher in Republican-voting parts of Virginia, but the increases are steepest in Democratic ones, particularly in Northern Virginia. Will that prompt more turnout on behalf of Democratic candidates?

This is the second of a five-part series that looks at projects proposed in Virginia from the 1940s into the 1990s that were never built but which would have changed things if they had been.

Senior Medical Transportation, which provides transportation to medical appointments across the entire state, is already on hold; the Emergency Financial Assistance Program, which provides funding to help with electric bills, water bills and other household essentials, has been cut by 70% per person; and the Ramp Assistance Program, which provides funding to help build ramps for those who need help to get into their home is completely on hold now.

This is the first of a five-part series that looks at projects proposed in Virginia from the 1940s into the 1990s that were never built but which would have changed things if they had been.

How land reform could turn decline into renewal — and show the nation a way forward.

Botetourt County honors the rarest of Virginia politicians: Someone who opposed Thomas Jefferson’s presidency.