Interesting word gratitude. If you look it up in Roget's Thesaurus, you find synomyms that carry both a sense of blessing and an implied...

This month RichmondWOMAN magazine goes from print to ezine . The new edition just hit the electronic news stand. My Government Matters col...

Following up on my post about Kilgore's failure to lead with inclusion during his 4 years as Attorney General, the announcement of McDon...

"Time and the Art of Living" by Robert Grudin is a book that I turn to periodically for inspiration/meditation/humility. Called a...

Certainly not if Christmas decorations are up before Halloween, and definitely not if you're asked by INC. magazine if you have any you...

There's an interesting picture that emerges from the cross tabs of the surveys conducted by SurveyUSA since August. Each of the polls ...

Writing for the Cooper Center in February 2002 about Governor Warner’s election, Professor Larry Sabato wrote, “Since 1969, the party with ...

The Volokh Conspiracy guest blogger Professor Dale Carpenter is devoting this week to the traditionalist arguments for gay marriage. Carpen...

Four years ago, Jerry Kilgore began his tenure as Attorney General by appointing women to serve both as his chief deputy and his chief of st...

On November 8th, Virginia voters will choose the man who will be their lawyer for the next four years. The Virginia Attorney General is, in ...

Mike Shear writes in the Post today about the tenor of the campaigning in the Virginia governor's race. Citing interviews with "mor...

When I awoke this morning, I didn't know why the day opened gray and misty. Then I read the Times Dispatch and learned that one of the ...

Saw this posted up on the Roanoke Times webpage today: If you live in Southwest Virginia and are a regular blogger, we'd like to consid...

Don't know if this is a random thought or an irregular musing .... Picked up the Sept/Oct issue of a new mag, Worthwhile: Work with Purp...

Hold on to your keyboards .... you're about to get Googled. Google announced yesterday that it has launched a new Google search engine ...

For those of you who want to get engaged in a national conversation about 9/11 and Katrina, you've got a new outlet. From the press rele...

Sean Tubb's from the Charlottesville Podcasting Network has his podcast report on the bloggers' summit up on his website. Hear Barn...

One of the more interesting "threads" at the bloggers’ summit on Saturday was the discussion about whether bloggers or blogging sh...

Last fall, Delegate and primary candidate for Lt. Governor, Viola Baskerville wrote to the Governor's Commission on Military Base Closi...

Commenting on my earlier po st on this subject, Richmond lawyer Marc Purintun has written a thoughtful analysis of the real impact of the pr...