In her latest What keeps you up at night? podcast, columnist Lynn Schmidt shares her concerns over Project 2025 and the current state of America's politics.
Before heading off to North Korea last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a “peace” offering to Ukraine. He pledged an immediate cease-fire and peace negotiations if Ukraine withdraws from four partially occupied regions and abandons its bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organiz…
Progress is being made in combatting sex discrimination in the workforce, but there are concerns gender-affirming care for minors. Learn more on the Utterly Moderate podcast.
Harlan Cohen, a bestselling author and journalist who has visited over 500 high school and college campuses, talks about how to help teens and young adults cope with rejection.
We can only report on the known facts at the time. We would rather be accurate than first. Anything less would be a disservice to Nex Benedict, the editorial states.
🎧 The hosts discuss the importance of good sportsmanship and why, unlike in politics, sports almost always rewards the people with the most skill.
Times are tough for many, given inflationary pressures on food, fuel and utility costs.
After much back-and-forth and strenuous behind the scenes hand-wringing, Germany has cleared the way for its Leopard 2 tanks to join the fight for democracy in Ukraine, pledging to send an initial company of 14 tanks. The U.S. joined in with President Joe Biden’s pledge to send 31 M1 Abrams tanks.
Memphis’ police chief said video of the Jan. 10 beating by five police officers that killed 29-year-old Tyre Nichols included “acts that defy humanity.”
Democrats want Biden to impose rules to limit rent increases across the country
Some might argue that the mass shooting that killed 10 people Saturday in California somehow proves gun restrictions don’t work. After all, California has the toughest gun-control laws in America. But even a cursory look at the data finds that tragedies like this are the exceptions that underscore the rule.
We had not planned to revisit the epic battle over the fate of Mountain Valley Pipeline quite so soon.
With the release of a document meant to shred protections for transgender students in Virginia’s public schools, Gov. Glenn Youngkin sheds the tattered remnants of his moderate Republican costume.
Editorial cartoons that appeared in the print edition of The Roanoke Times during the week of Sept. 19-25, 2022. (Click arrows to view.)
The past week in the Roanoke Valley has been a good one for the proper acknowledgment of history.
The mounting death toll on America’s streets and highways is a tragedy this nation should work more diligently to address. The numbers are staggering: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 42,915 people died in vehicle crashes last year, up 10.5% over 2020. That’s the largest annual percentage increase on record. It’s a clear warning that we must do better. Safer ...
From the governor on down in Virginia, it seems most everyone is falling in line behind the observation that public education is failing.
We still say the Roanoke Valley needs more murals — but a recent head-turning addition to Roanoke’s outdoor art offerings provides an example of how it ought to be done.
The Build Back Better Regional Challenge was a $1 billion U.S. Economic Development Administration program funded by the American Rescue Plan Act. Despite a valiant effort and a designation as a national finalist, a Virginia Tech-led coalition of 50 Southwest Virginia organizations did not w…
Editorial cartoons that appeared in the print edition of The Roanoke Times during the week of Sept. 12-18, 2022. (Click arrows to view.)
“You’ve known for a long time that my greatest wish is to be a journalist, and later on, a famous writer,” wrote a German-born Jewish teenager named Anne Frank on May 11, 1944. “We’ll have to wait and see if these grand illusions (or delusions!) will ever come true, but up to now I’ve had no…
Virginia’s Standards of Learning tests “establish minimum expectations” for student achievement across key subjects. While recent results for the 2021-22 school year showed noticeable declines in English, math, science and other subjects, our children’s chances to catch up hinge on the environment they will learn in this year.
A lawsuit brought by Virginia Beach Republican State Del. Tim Anderson to prevent libraries and booksellers from distributing books to minors deemed “obscene” has failed … for now.
The 303-mile long, dreary and aggravating saga of Mountain Valley Pipeline has taken yet another lumbering turn even as construction on the deeply controversial project remains stalled. The turn might or might not push the pipeline toward completion, even as it absolutely compounds MVP’s aby…
Towering tongues of fire wrap the broiling Earth.
Editorial cartoons that appeared in the print edition of The Roanoke Times during the week of Sept. 5-11, 2022. (Click arrows to view.)
The first time Robert Jeffrey Jr. ran for the Roanoke City Council, he expressed hope that he could be a role model. He told this newspaper, “I can exemplify the work of what black men should be doing.”
The list of ways to thwart cybercrime offered by FBI experts at a seminar Thursday in Richmond stretched across the internet in ways that were both reassuring and disturbing. The bottom line on both accounts was the same. We all need to pay closer attention to the forms of theft that cost the country $6.9 billion in 2021. Virginia’s share of that loss was $172.8 million.
The claim that even negative publicity is still worthwhile publicity bounces hard off the wall in the case of former Rocky Mount Police Officer Jacob Fracker and his one-time mentor, former Rocky Mount Police Sgt. Thomas “T.J.” Robertson.
The details, rendered with clinical detachment, are nonetheless chilling, and tragic.