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SERWAN ZANGANA: Political Failures Led To Recent Murder of Corrections Officer In Grayson County

Correctional Officer Jeremy Hall was killed on November 17, 2025, by an inmate at River North Correctional Center in Grayson County, Virginia, while he was conducting a meal service...

Sen. Suetterlein Files 2026 Legislation Expanding Tax Relief & Education

Virginia legislators started filing bills for the 2026 General Assembly this week, and Senator David...

Progressives Urge Assembly to Soak the Rich, But Likely Tax Increases Will Reach Everyone

As a new Democratic Party trifecta looms in Virginia, a progressive policy group has floated...

Dissecting the Blue Wave: Turnout

Gov. Glenn Youngkin yesterday blamed Tuesday’s shellacking of the Republican Party in Virginia on the...

We Lost More Than an Election — Here’s What Comes Next

We lost all three statewide races. We lost 13 House seats. No Republican won outside...

Letter – Countryside Property Owners Smell a Fox in the Hen House

We can't believe that the city is preparing to house 400 CHICKENS in our Northwest neighborhood. In addition there will be rows of...

Letter – In Response to Marrano Tea Party Commentary

Dear Editor: In response to 8/12/11 Commentary regarding Tea Party objections to our community being tied to ICLEI, consider these facts: Local government, residents,...

Letter – Childish Squabbles in Washington

The times call for statesmen, but we are at the mercy of political juveniles masquerading as statesman.  The recent squabble in e Washington...

Letter – An Angel In Your Midst

Recently my wife and I spent some time at Peaks of Otter celebrating our 54th. Anniversary. On a side trip to see the...

Getting Our Fiscal House in Order

For months now the Leadership in the Congress and the Administration have been negotiating the amount of money that the federal government is...

Commentary – Tea Partiers Need to Tilt at Other Windmills

At recent Board of Supervisors meetings in Roanoke and Montgomery counties members of the Tea Party and others sympathetic to their cause raised...