Columnist Mike Williams says the events in Powhatan this week show that progress has been made on civil rights, but the staus quo is far from perfect.

As affluent as Henrico County is, eastern Henrico residents in Sandston get the short end of the stick.

Columnist Mike Williams says that in these lean times, the city didn’t need to spend more than $11,000 for Mayor Dwight Jones to attend the presidential inauguration.

Virginia colleges for Virginians? Columnist Mike Williams thinks setting a quota for in-state students would hurt Virginia’s world-class schools.

Columnist Mike Williams wants to remind former mayor and VCU professor Doug Wilder that tough times call for perseverance, restraint and sacrifice—not $50,000 raises.

Republican legislators are throwing everything but their shoes at Tim Kaine’s budget-balancing plan. It includes a proposal that, depending on your perspective, brings out the best or worst in GOP delegates and senators: new taxes on a favored industry, Big Tobacco. Kaine, who since he was sworn in as governor in 2006 has proposed higher taxes with the frequency of a chain smoker who insists he’s swearing off the habit, gave Republicans—so they believe—an early Christmas present: something to run against in next November’s House and gubernatorial elections.

Uranium study: Aglow with questions.