Marc Fisher on his Raw Fisher blog , concluding a riff on the ability of Virginia legislators to drift from libertarian to dictatorial citin...

Here's Jim Bacon's take on the Marc Fisher piece on Virginia bloggers... Bacon's Rebellion: "Blogging on the Hustings"

Washington Post Columnist, Marc Fisher examines the Virginia political blogosphere in the February/March American Journalism Review. In ...

Here is the text of Senator Louise Lucas' floor speech about SB 700 (on which she and Senator Mamie Locke are co-chief patrons), the bil...

What do college fresh men who sit outside the cafeteria line and hold up rating cards for young women as they exit the line with their tray...

Delegate Cole has introduced a bill that would make it legal for a law enforcement officer carrying a concealed weapon to drink alcohol in a...

The new year approaches. Limitless possibilities; things left undone. A beginning; an ending. Grudin on past and future: III.20 The past ...

The holiday season... time with family ... thoughts about past time ... hope for time yet to come. Not much time for blogging. So, over the...

Richmond's new ezine for women published a revised version of my blog post on questions for the Virginia Attorney General in the Decembe...

Over on Bacon's Rebellion, Jim's asking folks to "blog the budget." Shaun Kenney suggests that we all play "adopt-a-b...

It seems to me that Virginia Congresswoman Jo Ann Davis and others on the anti-holiday bandwagon have merged the meanings of "include...

The Sunday before the election, I wrote my analysis of how I thought Sabato's "Ten Keys to the Governor's Mansion" were pl...

On Friday, Virginia Governor Mark Warner stepped up to the issue of workplace discrimination against gays and lesbians and did the right thi...

Jeff Schapiro's column today revealing some of the Kaine post-election poll results confirms what those not playing Republican bubble b...

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 ...