Opinion

While the federal government’s dramatic downsizing impacts the entire Washington metropolitan region, Virginia is bearing a disproportionate burden — and our state’s leadership has been dangerously silent.

She hasn’t met with key business groups. She’s avoided most media interviews. And some days her social media account documents no events. What’s she doing?

The Virginia senator cites a legal argument first advanced by a conservative publication that the president’s authority to appoint top prosecutors in that district has expired and that any further appointments must come from the judges.

Circuit Judge Christopher Russell found Gretchen Mogensen in contempt of court for failing to notify the state that the giraffes had been born.

A century ago this month, the Navy’s most famous airship, the USS Shenandoah, crashed. The fatal plunge was in Ohio, but the Virginia connections go well beyond its name.

We really don’t know much about either candidate, so here’s the best/worst scenario for each.

A statue of civil rights hero Barbara Johns will be unveiled later this fall to stand in the U.S. Capitol.

There is no — repeat, no — proposal to put a nuclear facility in the county just west of Richmond. However, the county has proposed zoning for a technology district that would allow a small one. This could be the start of a trend.

The U.S. Economic Development Administration has been a key partner in economic development in Southwest Virginia, but now, Congress is considering deep cuts to the agency’s budget and the president has proposed eliminating it entirely.