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Healthy seagrasses form underwater meadows teeming with fish and shellfish. A successful large-scale restoration project in Virginia could become a model for reseeding damaged seagrass beds worldwide.
A Richmond court says the city cannot remove its controversial Robert E. Lee sculpture because an 1890 land deed gave the Confederate monument ‘to the people’ of Virginia, not its government.
On June 19, a court will decide whether Virginia must obey a 1890 deed that gave the state a plot of prime Richmond land as long as it would ‘faithfully guard’ the Robert E. Lee statue erected there.
There’s a long history of books being banned from public and school libraries.
There’s no law forcing George Mason University’s allied foundation to make the public university’s donor deals public.
Hoffa’s ghost continues to haunt the labor movement.
The 6-3 ruling challenges some common political assumptions about conservatives and liberals.
Virginia’s stark political contradictions, reflecting centuries of racism and a new liberal majority, were on display when a blackface image was found recently on the governor’s old yearbook page.
What happens when assault survivors enter systems that are not designed to respond to their words or meet their needs.
Distrusting large federal bureaucracies isn’t reserved for conservatives anymore.
By looking closely at traits like wing feathers and spot patterns, a computer scientist trained an algorithm to recognize individual woodpeckers.
Some say the more than 230 cities that lost their bids for Amazon’s second headquarters were dupes in the retailer’s game. In fact, they were willing participants with their own aims.
Lessons learned from Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and the Fukushima disaster in 2011 have changed how utilities brace for big storms.
Many cities lack the resources to analyze their own vast troves of administrative data.
In Virginia, suburbanites, city-dwellers and black voters together rebuffed racism as an electoral strategy and handed Dems a huge win. Is this diverse coalition the future of Old Dominion politics?
It’s time for newspapers to stop telling their dwindling number of subscribers how to vote.
America’s coal heartland is delighted with Donald Trump’s election win. But like King Canute, he can’t turn back the tide of the global market push away from coal and towards renewables.
Anything That Gives Off Light explores Scottishness from three very different perspectives.
The senator from Virginia has a reputation for integrity, speaks Spanish and comes from a purple state. Also, control of his Senate seat isn’t in play.
When will the news media learn that by making atrocities seem special and memorable, they are playing into the killer’s game?



















