Opinion

The report, commissioned by the Virginia Chamber Foundation, identifies which jobs are most at risk and which ones are immune.

President Donald Trump and MAGA Republican leaders have openly urged states like Texas, North Carolina and soon Florida to change the rules ahead of the 2026 midterms in order to lock in more Republican seats before voters even cast their ballots. It’s an effort to tilt the playing field in Washington before the election ever begins and to give Virginia voters less of a say in what happens next.

When either party redraws maps solely to entrench political advantage, it undermines public trust. The Republican Party was wrong for setting this in motion and must take ownership of that misguided act at the same time. What is being proposed here by the Democrats is wrong, too.

Before we discard the current congressional map, let’s take a look at how it was drawn, an exercise that takes us to the question of “what constitutes a community of interest?”

This whole college sports enterprise is business development that is being financed by student subsidies, and frequently ever higher student loan debt.  As a society, do we do this for any other form of business development?

The sister of a former Salem man who is being held in Russia after being abducted in international waters asks for others to speak up on her brother’s behalf.

Democratic legislators named some Republicans to judgeships, created new commissions and studies but told the brown-belted bumblebee to buzz off as a potential state emblem.

VMI is not for everyone, nor should it be.