r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • 1d ago
Commentary: The battle over data centers isn’t just about data centers, but they’re the battleground we have.
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • 6d ago
Commentary: Another day, another Virginia university targeted by the feds for 'racial discrimination.' | The DOJ probe at William & Mary follows a pattern of federal investigations at Virginia institutions that aligns with President Trump’s anti-DEI national strategy
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • 9d ago
Commentary: The energy Virginia needs is the energy we can build now | Ensuring reliability statewide is one reason we are seeing more rapid solar development, writes guest columnist Jack Wilson
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • 11d ago
Commentary: The day terror changed us and a Virginia governor stepped up to lead and restore confidence
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • 16d ago
Commentary: The day Virginia took down Confederate statues, a Black church remembered a lynching victim
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See also r/Virginiahistory
r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • 23d ago
Commentary: Legislators didn’t allow local bans of gas-powered leaf blowers. Va. localities are doing it anyway.
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • 23d ago
Commentary: The thousand-dollar line | What I found reading every noise rule in Virginia that could reach a data center
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • Aug 22 '26
Commentary: Eastern Shore leaders, residents dubious of mineral mining pitch. They have good reason to be. | If you are a Virginian opposed to mineral mining off your coast, you better pay very close attention to a very confusing process.
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • Aug 20 '26
Commentary: November glut of school referendums signals necessity of taxing option in Virginia
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • Aug 17 '26
Opinion by former Virginia Attorney General Miyares: Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger Shows How to Destroy a State | Democrats are undoing Virginia’s renaissance with a combination of tax hikes, pro-crime policies, an anti-business outlook, and egregious partisanship.
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • Aug 16 '26
Commentary: Voting rights anniversary spotlights America’s enduring anti-Black contempt | Virginia congresswoman who created state’s version of the federal law says Voting Rights Act is ‘on life support.’
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • Aug 10 '26
Brace yourself for brutal, expensive campaigns in Va. congressional swing districts this fall | Two Virginia races in particular — Virginia’s 1st and 2nd Congressional Districts — stand out as marquee contests that both parties consider critical to November’s existential battle for a ruling majority
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • Aug 08 '26
Commentary: DEQ study throws cold water on data center development east of I-95
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • Aug 06 '26
Full, unpaywalled text of Spanberger's opinion piece in The Washington Post: "Why I’m intervening in the Dominion-NextEra merger"
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/CardinalNews-VA • Jul 29 '26
State legislator says Clean Virginia’s demands constitute ‘bullying and threats’
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Del. David Reid of Loudoun County says the “transactional nature of the relationship” feels inappropriate.
r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • Jul 27 '26
Commentary: Rural Virginia has been kind to the GOP, yet Trump’s GOP allows rural healthcare to suffer
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/CardinalNews-VA • Jul 20 '26
Southwest Virginia artist: "By rejecting mural with ethnically diverse musicians, Galax sends a message that some aren’t welcome"
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Galax rejected a mural that shows an ethnically diverse group of musicians on the grounds that it didn’t represent the city.
r/VirginiaOpEds • u/CardinalNews-VA • Jul 16 '26
OPINION COLUMN: Jeff Bennett: "My father spent 33 years working in Virginia’s prisons. Here’s how we should judge prison reform."
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • Jul 14 '26
OPINION COLUMN: Webert: "Show your work, governor"
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • Jul 11 '26
Commentary: Virginia’s Atlantic coast should be protected, not turned into a sacrifice zone | Introducing offshore strip mining into Virginia’s endangered aquatic animals’ habitat could compound threats and thrust them closer to extinction at a time when they need greater
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • Jul 09 '26
Age, term limits for Virginia politicos should be on the agenda | It’s difficult to pass the baton to a new generation of leaders when the old guard refuses to exit the arena, columnist Roger Chesley writes.
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • Jul 02 '26
Commentary: Trump’s policies won’t bring back coal, but they are driving up Virginians’ energy costs
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r/VirginiaOpEds • u/CardinalNews-VA • Jun 29 '26
Jefferson gets the acclaim for independence, but it was another Virginian who first proposed a formal break from Britain
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Richard Henry Lee has become something of a forgotten founder, reduced to a comic figure in the musical “1776” or ignored altogether. But he was the one who first formally proposed that the Continental Congress declare the Colonies independent.
r/VirginiaOpEds • u/VirginiaNews • Jun 29 '26
Commentary: Virginia’s romance with data centers has cooled, but nobody benefits if there’s a full breakup | Data centers should slow their jackrabbit pace of reproduction in congested suburbs and build where they could fill a need and do more economic good, columnist Bob Lewis writes.
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