Columnists

Bringing professionalism back

Instead of “bringing sexy back,” let’s bring professionalism back — in clothing.

Columnists

Finding that first real job

My name is Rebecca Chappell and I just graduated from Longwood University with a degree in English. I ...

Columnists

Profiting off tragedies

Today’s news media love to inundate their viewers and readers with stories of the various murders, robberies and ...

Columnists

My grandmother and Ronald Reagan

In the fall of 1980, I was a 9-year-old fourth grader at Southampton Elementary School. I loved baseball, ...

Columnists

It’s just fashion, isn’t it?

Did you hear the one about the woman who’s petitioning Target to stop selling shirts that she believes ...

Columnists

Are we really Southern?

Virginia occupies a strange place in the Union. We are located below the Mason Dixon line, but a ...

Columnists

SOLS need new approach for testing elementary school students

Slowly but surely, the Virginia Department of Education’s Standards of Learning tests are ruining our school systems, particularly ...

Andrew Lind

I’m getting old

I was only a freshman in college when I spotted my first gray hair. It wasn’t all that ...

Columnists

Anybody home?

Did you feel it? The suspense? That’s the emotion which has been building over the past few weeks ...

Cain Madden

By the time you read this…

When you look back upon an empty apartment or home as you are preparing for a move, there’s ...

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