After assimilating some information, I'll leave you to your own devices to figure out why Terry McAuliffe might find it in his interest to run an unexamined (read: negativity-free) campaign.
Mike Stark | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
I nearly fell out of my chair when T-Mac openly admired the steps Haley Barbour has taken in Mississippi to attract business. Haley Barbour? But that wasn't the only thing Terry said that left me agape.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
We are blessed with many community-based libraries, all within a few miles of one another in North Arlington. Would it really be such an inconvenience to cut the hours of one?
Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics
We Americans should honor abolitionists of the past and present not only by remembering them during Black History Month, but by working to repeal capital punishment throughout the USA.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics
The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green
The State of Virginia could be poised to take significant action to bolster the economy and help the climate by passing an energy efficiency bill.
chesapeakeclimate.org | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green
Yesterday Gov. Kaine applauded Virginia's electrical co-ops for donating energy efficient lights to Virginia State Parks, hailing it as "a major step ...
Suz Redfearn | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
I have no capacity for standing out in the cold. I was born in Florida. What was I going to do with my two year-old? All our babysitters either wanted to be home to watch the Inauguration themselves, or try to go.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics
The Republican strategy sounds like the demon child of Mao's Cultural Revolution and Stalin's five-year plans: a criminal intolerance of social differences combined with an outrageously failed economic policy.
Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
This afternoon, the descendants of slaves bore witness to an event their forebears could not have imagined: the inauguration of an African American as President of the United States.
AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 02.12.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — In a rare Sunday session, the Senate advanced legislation that would set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as wilderne...
The Hill | J. Taylor Rushing | Posted 02.03.2009 | Politics
Terry McAuliffe on Saturday announced his candidacy for the Virginia governorship, attempting to position himself as the natural successor to Democrat...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics
Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it.
Mike Stark | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics
Yesterday a close friend told me (through tears) that Gov. Kaine, as a cost-cutting measure, is closing the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents. Nobody knows what will happen now.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics
Beyond its regional concentration, the Republican Party's face is from another time. Indeed, nearly half of the Republican caucus is composed of Southern white men.
Lea Lane | Posted 01.04.2009 | Entertainment
Odetta Holmes sang at the 1963 March on Washington, and it was reported that she wanted to sing at Obama's inauguration. But she didn't quite make it; she died on Tuesday, at age 77.
Jeannie Ralston | Posted 12.15.2008 | Style
I've found that I've increasingly consulted the electoral map as I've been trying to zero in on our new home.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics
Emails saying absolutely anything about a candidate could not only be sent anonymously, but whoever sends them would actually be allowed to break any sort of anti-spam laws to do so.
Josh Nelson | Posted 12.12.2008 | Green
Terry McAuliffe filed papers in Virginia today. He called a few Virginia bloggers to talk about his potential candidacy.
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 12.10.2008 | Home
One thing volunteering for the Obama campaign in southern Virginia reiterated to me is that racism is alive and well in this country and there's somet...
Phillip Martin | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
In the U.S., the possibility of an African American president does not presuppose the end to color prejudice any more than the election of Mandela meant an end to inequalities in South Africa.
Adrienne Birecree | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home
My husband and I got up at 5am this morning so we would be at our polling place before it opened at 6am. We definitely knew where we were going. If w...
Mark Meier | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home
The Democratic signs at least are all either made out of recyclable material or are themselves recyclable. They're also made by union workers in the USA. The GOP signs contain no information.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
We might know who our next president is by 8:05 PM EST on Tuesday night. This has been such a long time coming for those of us who have been fighting the Bush administration for all of these years.
Albert Berger | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
The goal of these videos was to shed light on the election in contested states. Now, like so many others who have worked their hearts out, we all call it a day and hope that change arrives tomorrow.
Mike Stark | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics