Virginia

Regional Maryland, Obama, Virginia
National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines
“Even though I’m out … I’m still disabled and still sick. None of that goes away. [Volunteering] just put a smile on my face.” — Richard Lamb of Snoqualmie, Wash., who has myalgic encephalomyelitis, a condition that limits his energy

A $40 Toll to Drive 10 Miles? It Happened on Virginia’s I-66
“As long as people are willing to pay, that is what will drive the tolling,” Aubrey Layne, Virginia’s transportation secretary, said Tuesday at a meeting of the Commonwealth Transportation Board, The Washington Post reported. The tolls are in effect only on weekdays, from 5:30 to 9:30 a.m. eastbound and from 3 to 7 p.m. westbound. […]

Regional Alaska, Connecticut, Europe, France, Virginia
The First Immigrant Thanksgiving
A modern American debate with deep, familiar roots.

Regional, World Asia, Bob Holsworth, Bob Marshall, Danica Roem, Europe, Oceania, Theatre, Virginia
The GOP is so afraid of calling a trans politician a woman they’re willing to abolish gender
Republican lawmakers in Virginia plan to do away with gendered language on the House floor if they control the chamber after November. Democratic delegate-elect Danica Roem’s historic win on Election Day, as one of eight openly trans candidates elected to office, and the first trans person elected to a state legislature, has presented a unique problem […]

Regional, Society, Sports Donald Trump, Kathryn Sorenson, Trump, Virginia
How the ‘Resistance’ Helped Democrats Dominate Virginia
Sorenson, whose one-woman campaign — the candidate had a demanding day job — was limited by a cumbersome and unsightly cervical collar, had few illusions that all these new volunteer hearts had been set aflame by the local business owner and retired Navy Reserve commander David Reid, even if everybody who met him agreed right […]