The Daily Progress recommends that voters send Rob Bell back to Richmond.

But if this country truly wants high-speed rail, we’re going to have to get serious about the effort. Eight billion dollars won’t get us there.

The story of Sgt. David Budwah baffles the mind.

James Madison University’s leveling of charges against two student journalists raises troubling concerns over press freedom.

Two issues from last spring describe the challenges that will await the net governor Virginia: federal stimulus mondy and federal education money.

He brings a totally unique viewpoint that adds to the insights which, in total, make up county government.

Mr. Lowry presents the most finely nuanced evaluation of county and district issues.

Virginia has two fundamentally different, yet fundamentally able, candidates running for attorney general.

For the ninth year in a row, silver was the most popular color for cars in America. Twenty percent of U.S. cars are silver.

A recent police chase in California illustrates a wave of the future.

Cynthia Neff’s abhorrent mailer comparing her opponent’s votes to the immorality of a cheating husband is reprehensible.

Preliminary new figures on school dropout rates inject a pressing issue into the current Albemarle County Board of Supervisors race.

It’s common sense: If offenders get help transitioning back into society, the transition is more likely to be successful.

The legacy of Barack Obama’s victory in 2008, thus far, has been one of division.

A judge’s decision sends exactly the right signal about the importance of voting and the state’s error in not mailing absentee ballots in accordance with law.

Applause to Nicole Muller, a high school junior who has taken on a big goal: Trying to collect a ton of food before Saturday to donate to local food banks.

The party of “change,” as it turns out, has done little to advance the cause of reform when it comes to military earmarks and political back-scratching.

As columnist Bob Gibson so rightly points out in today’s Commentary, mud-slinging may help a politician get elected but it doesn’t help him govern.

A suburban Pittsburgh man slept through a house fire, and not even the sirens of firetrucks or the sounds of firefighters served to wake him up.

Maxi Sopo was a fugitive from a federal bank fraud investigation who apparently had successfully eluded authorities by slipping into Mexico and out of sight.

“Possibility City” is a great catchphrase. But a new round of ads asking folks to consider the possibilities has some officials squirming with embarrassment.

If a word is in public use, it ought to remain in common use. Nobody should be able to own it.

Once again, our area is at the center of dispute between prison officials and free speech advocates.

Say hello to the four-day workweek. And, no, it’s not a move designed to expand the worker’s leisure time.

Well-wishers lavished fond accolades on former Mayor A, Raymon Thacker amid a memory-laden celebration Sunday in Scottsville.

In view of the hopes pinned on the expanded Amtrak service to Charlottesville, it is with regret that we learn of a decline in Amtrak ridership.

If we thought Commonwealth’s Attorney Denise Lunsford would actually stop prosecuting high-profile misdemeanors such as domestic assault and drunken driving — and so put her job at risk in the next election — we would be raising the roof in wrath.

Hooded tribunals? Nameless, nonaccountable jurors? No, we’re not talking about “justice” in some Third World autocracy.

On the same day, two groups, working independently, memorialized the deaths of two Virginia — and American — legends.

Virginia placed three sites on three national lists of Top 10 Great Places in America.