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Does Spending $62 Billion on Utility Batteries Lower Your Cost of Electricity? Of Course Not

The 2026 General Assembly is likely to amend the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) to greatly expand the construction of utility-scale batteries for our electric grid. Based on the current...

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...

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...

Times Columnist Misses Mark

With all that has been said in response to Roanoke Times columnist Dan Casey’s gratuitously unkind column about the Texas Tavern, one fact...

Goodlatte Doesn’t Consider All the Facts

In response to Bob Goodlatte's article on 2/12/10 about President Obama titled Spends Too Much, Taxes Too Much and Borrows Too Much. Bob, why...

Berglund Automotive Goes the Extra Mile

We will all remember the big snowstorm of February 2010.  My two dogs, Thelma and Louise and I were in Snowshoe, WV.  We...

Commentary: Council Elections

In the 2/5/10 edition of "The Roanoke Times," a story by Mason Adams ran accusing me of working with/for Valerie Garner in the...

Commentary: Profit Motive is Necessary for Quality Health Care

Not long ago my wife, Karol, and I flew from Bucharest to New York City's JFK airport.  We had two hours to connect...

Commentary: Regarding Explore Park – Enough Already!

After 25 agonizing years and approximately Million poured down the drain, Explore Park remains the same as it was in 1985, -...