To the editor: Virginia’s Main Street banks play a vital role in ensuring a vibrant economy, providing the necessary capital for building homes, businesses and schools. As leaders in our…
By Rick Finley For The Virginian-Pilot RURAL VIRGINIA is still struggling to recover from the Great Recession. Eighty-five of Virginia’s 133 counties and cities have shed jobs since 2007. Our…
Editorial Board Published 5:25 p.m. ET Feb. 2, 2018 | Updated 6:17 p.m. ET Feb. 2, 2018 From an early age, schoolchildren in Virginia learn about the native people of…
By Editorial Board In the government shutdown crisis that Congress moved to resolve on Monday, or at least put on pause, there were so-called leaders who saw an opportunity to…
WASHINGTON — Today U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate to warn of threats…
As Prepared for Delivery In this age of social media, you can’t afford to waste too much time – or too many characters – in getting the point across, so…
by the Editorial Board As Americans have learned since the last election, Internet ads can race halfway around the world before truth-squadders are even aware of their existence, much less…
It’s now clear to everyone — with the possible exception of Donald Trump — that operatives linked to Russia took advantage of Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms to…
BY TIMOTHY ROEMER AND ZACHARY WAMP, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS During the 2016 election, hostile foreign powers unleashed unprecedented, anonymous attacks on the American people through the largest online platforms, the equivalent…
As a response to the Russian campaign to sow discord in the 2016 presidential election, the so-called Honest Ads Act is wholly inadequate. It is also entirely necessary. The legislation,…