WEEK’S ENDToday marks the official opening of Minds Wide Open: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts. The festivities coincide with an Altria Masterworks...

President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats seem to have taken their theme song from the Everly Brothers. Whenever they want health care reform,...

The fascinating story, “Traditional Allies at Odds on Education: Charter-Schools Issue Drives Wedge Between VEA and Democrats,“ by staff writer...

Most Americans, Irish or not, are familiar with the remarkable (and mostly true) story of St. Patrick of Ireland. As a 14-year-old boy, Patrick was captured...

At the bottom of Thursday’s front page was a piece of reporting brought to you courtesy of Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act. It was a...

The mushroom cloud rises over Washington. President Obama has triggered the nuclear option on health care reform, calling for Democrats to use an obscure...

The CLEAR Act Would Help . . . China Editor, Times-Dispatch: Regarding the Op/Ed column by Chelsea Harnish explaining how wonderful the “CLEAR”...

Since When Is Census All About Loot? Editor, Times-Dispatch: The other day I received a letter from the director of the U.S. Census Bureau addressed to...

Christmas Mother Thanks Henricoans Editor, Times-Dispatch: As we conclude the 2009 Henrico Christmas Mother program, I would like to extend my heartfelt...

Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act begins, “By enacting this chapter, the General Assembly ensures the people of the Commonwealth ready...

From time to time conservatives have noted with wry amusement the various “studies” purporting to show that political conservatism is a mental...

Ihad the pleasure last month to be invited to the premier of the documentary “Arabia” at the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond. It was...

As anyone who read his 20-year-old thesis at Regent University knows, it’s not easy to get to the right of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, particularly...

Shakespeare himself could not have chosen a better foil for Barack Obama than Sarah Palin. The professor and the hockey mom make the perfect pair to dramatize...

Karaoke machines are little more than instruments of death, and it’s high time they were more tightly regulated, if not altogether banned. The evidence...

Each Saturday, the editorial page of the Richmond Times-Dispatch presents a scene illustrating Virginia’s natural beauty, courtesy of Scenic Virginia....

Each Saturday, the editorial page of the Richmond Times-Dispatch presents a scene illustrating Virginia’s natural beauty, courtesy of Scenic Virginia....

Each Saturday, the editorial page of the Richmond Times-Dispatch presents a scene illustrating Virginia’s natural beauty, courtesy of Scenic Virginia....