By Mason Rayner Guest Columnist How can we fix health care? That’s the debate that has been raging in the...
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BY ANNA HALBROOKS-FULKS Guest Columnist With only a few weeks to go, elections have begun to gain the attention of more...
By James Martin Guest Columnist Four years ago, Bob McDonnell was a delegate from Virginia Beach and was known for...
BY BREEANNA SVEUM Viewpoints Editor In recent months (though it seems more like years), the debate about health care has...
Since Roman Polanski’s arrest in Zurich on Sunday, people have come out in force to defend a man who raped...
Dear Editor: I am tired of hearing the word “socialism” tossed around negatively in the debate about health care reform....
Apologizing is one of the first things we learn to do as children. When we mess up, we’re told to...
Word on the street is that President-elect Barack Obama’s administration is vetting Hillary Clinton for secretary of state. If that’s...
By Heather Brady Regional On Tuesday, the Commonwealth of Virginia will provide up to $5.2 million to front-line private groups...
By JOHN SHERIDAN 1. Steps Toward Real Equality A non-white candidate has been elected president. What some said was impossible...
BY HEATHER BRADY Regional The Rev. George O. Lowe, 71, was convicted on Tuesday, Sept. 2 of molesting Benjamin Marsh,...
BY ANDREW HOFFMAN Now that the long drawn-out Presidential campaign has come to a close, Americans everywhere should be happy...
BY BREEANNA SVEUM Dear Alaska: In the years of your statehood, the lower 48 have, in large part, ignored you....
On Tuesday night, UMW held its breath with the rest of America to see who would be elected as the...
BY JUSTIN TONEY "The Board of Dictators," as campus vandalism dubbed them, has ruled over our institution since its independence...
By HEATHER BRADY Regional Derrick Gosnell, a 25-year-old Spotsylvania County man charged last month with the attempted rape of two...
By KAT SAUNDERS On November 4th, Barack Obama defeated John McCain and was elected the 44th president of the United States....
By BRITTANY De VRIES “Welcome aboard, ladies and gentlemen, I’m your hope captain,” he said. He put the key in the...
By MARY TURNER Other than McCain or Obama, there are four other candidates to choose from in this year’s presidential election....
BY BREEANNA SVEUM I no longer have any doubt that achieving the American Dream is possible—that is, if your dream...
By HEATHER BRADY Regional Stafford County Resident Paul Gregory Chapman, 38, was acquitted earlier this month after a jury trial...
By ANNE LONGERBEAM Presidential candidates Senator Barack Obama of the Democratic Party, and Senator John McCain of the Republican Party,...
By HEATHER BRADY National Top Congressional budget analysts said on Oct. 7 that about $2 trillion of Americans' retirement savings...
By SUSANNAH CLARK I never thought I’d say this, but after yawning my way through last Friday’s presidential debate: thank...
Last Saturday’s rally for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his running mate Joe Biden was more than just recitation...
BY LAUREN ORSINI Three members of the UMW Board of Visitors attended the spring Scholarship Luncheon. I was there as a...
By HEATHER BRADY Regional Gov. Tim Kaine and U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters announced on Sept. 30 that the federal...
By ANNIE KINNIBURGH Despite intermittent rain, a crowd of 26,000 people came to campus Saturday to hear speeches by Democratic...
By LAUREN ORSINI My clothes are soaked through. I’m caked with mud up to my ankles. I’m standing so close to...
By JOHN SHERIDAN The days leading up to last Saturday were full of excitement and political fervor for some, anticipating...
