Housing density needs to be created in the limited areas where utility services are provided.
Cardinal Way
Cardinal Way is a project to promote civil discourse between people in our community, even if they disagree.
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More than 4,000 people in Roanoke need affordable housing
Housing vouchers have had a negative stigma for decades, but that has much more to do with disengaged landlords than it has to do with their tenants.
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We say things on social media we wouldn’t dare say to someone in person
Readers suggest society would be better off if we turned down the volume on social media and spent more time talking face to face.
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Civility is required for success in government
With nearly half its members entering the Senate for the first time, the 2024 session represents a unique opportunity to restore civility in the General Assembly’s upper chamber.
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People don’t ‘magically switch sides like a WWF wrestler based on you quoting a statistic’
Readers offer insights into how to calm a difficult political conversation. Another in our special project on civility.
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How to defuse a political argument at the Thanksgiving table
We can’t model our dinnertime conversations after cable news programming.
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Uncle Joe’s crazy rant is not a threat, and you can’t fix it
Dana Ackley is an expert in building emotional quotient (EQ) skills and the author of “The EQ Leader Program Manual.” Here’s his perspective on Thanksgiving.
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We are ‘hiding behind social media identities so that we don’t have to be civil’
That’s one of the responses we got to our original installment of a project on restoring civility.
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Each of us has the power to bridge the great partisan divide
The Cardinal Way: Civility Rules is an experiment to see if people in our part of Virginia can lower the heat and talk about hot-button issues.
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We’re dangerously polarized as a nation. That won’t be fixed locally.
Today we embark on a project to promote civility called The Cardinal Way: Civility Rules. It’s an experiment to see if people in our part of Virginia can lower the heat and talk about hot-button issues. It’s a good idea that won’t work.