Both have stirred opposition, but many stances on both come into conflict with other long-held principles. Here’s an overview of the politics involved and the tension points.
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Pipeline opponents: A compressor station doesn’t fit rural character of eastern Montgomery County
The Swann Compressor Station is an unfit industrial imposition on Montgomery County. It would add air pollutants that include formaldehyde and benzene. It would produce noise and sound impacts on public health and wildlife.
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Could the Virginia Supreme Court have ruled on redistricting before the vote? Here’s a way it could have wriggled out of a 1912 precedent.
The court relied on a 1912 ruling that said to wait until after the election. Here’s one difference between then and now the court could have cited.
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Virginia journalist: Fired by AI
What’s now going on in the information economy mirrors what happened to factory workers in the 2000s.
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W&L student from Tazewell: Growing up transparent
When schools implement invasive security measures without strong evidence that those measures improve safety, communities should ask difficult questions. Are these policies being adopted because they work, or because they are highly visible?
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6 things to know about Spanberger’s firing of Rocovich as Virginia Tech rector
The governor has not said why she removed the head of Virginia Tech’s governing board, although Republicans have pressed her to do so.
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Cannabis group: Virginia studied adult-use cannabis sales for six years. What exactly are we waiting for?
Gov. Spanberger has argued that Virginia should learn from the mistakes made by other states before moving forward with adult-use cannabis retail. Yet we have already done exactly that.
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Former University of Lynchburg president: What the Challenger explosion can teach us
The Challenger disaster underscores the importance of getting outside your own limited experience.
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Virginia is on track to post two straight years of job losses. It’s not just federal job cutbacks that are pulling the state’s economy down.
Even if there had been no federal job cuts, the state would have still lost jobs, according to federal economic data. Here’s why.
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Lynchburg Republicans pick sides in factional dispute; now city council will see changes no matter who wins in November
The Republican nominating event sets the stage for a fall council race that, whichever way it goes, will change the dynamics on the Lynchburg City Council.
